The Green Strides Webinar Series provides school communities the tools to reduce their schools’ environmental impact and costs; improve health and wellness; and teach effective environmental literacy, including STEM, green careers, and civic engagement.>>> These are all the tools that help schools and districts move toward the aims of our U.S. Department of Education Green Ribbon Schools recognition award. This March, the Green Strides Webinar Series will be conducted on:
| Integrated Pest Management in Schools: Protecting Children from Pests & Pesticides (EPA) |
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March 6, 2013 from 2:00 – 3:00 p.m.
Pests and pesticides pose risks to the nearly 60 million children and staff who spend considerable periods of time in our nation’s schools. EPA recommends that schools use an Integrated Pest Management approach to reduce exposure in schools. This webinar will describe basics of school IPM, the potential health, environmental and economic benefits, and what it takes to put IPM into practice.
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| Food and Fitness (NASA) |
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March 13, 2013 from 4:00 – 5:00 p.m.
Many factors impact an astronaut’s ability to live and work in space. Study the efforts to improve nutrition and keep crew-members healthy. Learn about the relationship between nutrition and fitness. The activities examine techniques to make life long healthy meal and activity choices, such as determining the proper serving size, understanding food labels, and assessing proper nutritional and exercise choices.
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| Taking Technology Outdoors: Geography Connections (NEEF) |
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March 13, 2013 from 7:00 – 8:00 p.m.
In this webinar, National Geographic Education will introduce FieldScope, mobile technologies and online communities and how they can be used for citizen science projects. The event will introduce storymaking with maps – how to make maps with existing data and how to collect data in the field for creating story maps.
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| Radiation Exposure on Earth (NASA) |
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March 20, 2013 from 4:00 – 5:00 p.m.
This webinar features the first activity of NASA’s Radiation Challenge guide designed for middle school classroom - “Radiation Exposure on Earth.” Discover how NASA is using radiation studies to help design long-duration spaceflight vehicles and how NASA’s space experiences are helping us here on Earth. Explore the use of sunscreen and SPF levels designed to protect us from the effects of solar UV radiation.
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For more information on the Green Strides Webinar Series, upcoming webinars, and past webinar recordings, please visit: http://www2.ed.gov/programs/green-ribbon-schools/webinar.html
