Midwest Environmental Education Conference

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Midwest Environmental Education Conference

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12:30pm CDT

Adapted Recreation in Three Rivers Park District Salon CNick Sacco Honoring Indigenous Knowledge through Place, Nature, and Identity PinesCatherine Koons-Hubbard (she/er) • Casie Wise Reawakening kinship and reciprocity HearthColleen Robinson

1:00pm CDT

Integral Ecology in Practice on FSPA land on St. Joseph Ridge Meet at LocationSiena Muehlfeld • Beth Piggush • Meredith Hink Midwest Fisheries Center Meet at LocationCristina Stahl Outdoors Access 4 All Meet at LocationKasi Greenwood • Rachael Lewandowski Sarette • Monica Spaeni Summit Environmental School Meet at LocationOscar UrIbe Sustainability at Western: U.S. Department of Education Green Ribbon Schools Honoree Meet at LocationCasey Meehan

2:30pm CDT

Adapted Recreation in Three Rivers Park District Salon CNick Sacco Forest Therapy Walk: Remembering and Reconnecting with the Land HearthJacquie Medina Nature Ditties: Songs to Celebrate and Explore Nature (A GuideNotes Workshop) TimberlandKathryn Para, a.k.a. Frolic the Fox Spiral Belonging: Nature's Repeating Pattern PinesMartha Brunell

10:45am CDT

Food Frolic Academy PinesTamra Dickinson • Vicki Lopez-Kaley Ojibwe & Dakota PLT lessons TimberlandLaura Duffey We're All in this Together- How the EPA Collaborative Problem Solving Model Can Support Environmental Justice HearthEmma Buzecky • Megan Gavin • Nathan Melia Climate Change - Development of a Statewide Infrastructure Salon A/CSamara Hamzé • Gina Smith • Victoria Rydberg-Nania Disentangling Environmental Education from Colonization Salon A/CDeanna Erickson • Hannah Smith Finding the Stories in Nature Salon A/CEmily Stone Letting the Land heal and connect: an urban mutual aid story Salon A/CZaynab Baalbaki Starts with us. Relationships, unlearning and learning together Salon A/CBeth Piggush

1:00pm CDT

Collective Leadership: Supporting Personal Power to Sustain Community Thriving PinesEmma Koeppel • Betty Ballweg • Lynn Parkhurst Creative Caring for Nature Through Art Badger's DenKristin Gjerdset Increasing Accessibility through Transformational Thinking Salon CKasi Greenwood • Rachael Lewandowski Sarette • Monica Spaeni Monarchs and Milkweed: An Essential Relationship Eagle's LookoutJessica Miller Tracking: an introduction to math and physics HearthClayton Sattler Trees Tie Us to the Land: Using PLT to Foster Connections RoweNicole Filizetti • Michelle Ramos • Chip Murrow Using local phenomena to engage students in robust Environmental Education TimberlandChristopher Like • Kean Roberts

2:00pm CDT

Environmental Education with EPA! PinesNathan Melia • Megan Gavin • Emma Buzecky Students Connecting through Manoominikwin (Wild Ricing) and Iskigamizige (Maple Sugar Camp) Salon ABrian Olson • Anna DeMers

3:00pm CDT

Building Nature Connections & Community Salon AEmily Brown City of Superior Environmental Services Division Water Quality Programming Salon CMegan Högfeldt • Lisa DeGuire • Ida Sampson Nature Poetry Is For Everyone! TimberlandNicole Filizetti Student Led Environmental Action Civics RoweMichelle Ramos iPlan: Creating Localized Land-Use Simulations for Place-Based Learning HearthAndrew Ruis

3:30pm CDT

Circular Intergenerational Connections RoweBeth Piggush How to be a Badge-r TimberlandBeth Schaefer Using Treasure Finders with All Ages Badger's DenEmily Stone

4:00pm CDT

Farm to Classroom: Embedded Agriculture in Culinary Arts Eagle's LookoutMollie Haubenschild • Erica Yoss Growing Native Plants and Creating Pollinator Habitat with Students; a place-based experiential learning opportunity. Badger's DenHaley Diem Growing Where You Are Planted: Place-Based Learning with Trees Salon COlivia Witthun • Jonathan Ismail Interpreting Northeast Iowa's Neutral Ground Salon ALilly Jensen • Josh Dansdill • Jared Nielsen Nature Explorers: Effects of an interpretive day camp on attitudes TimberlandGriffin Bray • Becca Franzen

9:00am CDT

Iowa's School of the Wild Effort Eagle's LookoutJay Gorsh What's new in the world of EE research? Badger's DenBecca Franzen • Yue Li • Kendra Liddicoat Changing Climate, Changing Cultures: Integrating TEK into Climate Education HearthVictoria Rydberg-Nania • Cathy Techtmann Connecting Digital Students to the Land through Game Design Salon APeg Steffen Decolonization: What is it? PinesTommy Mackey Playgrounds not Battlegrounds: Using playfulness to engage in Serious Business Salon CCasey Meehan Sign, Song, Story: Keeping things lively. RoweDavid Stokes (he/him) Tree Inventories to Connect with Community Forests TimberlandJonathan Ismail • Dan Buckler

10:00am CDT

A day in the life: what do Gen Z-ers need and look for? Eagle's LookoutBecca Franzen

1:30pm CDT

EE in Action: Empower to Advocate Salon A/B/CMegan Giefer

3:10pm CDT

Close Encounters with Small Wonders Badger's DenJill Brigham • Kendra Liddicoat Diversity in Conservation: Creating More Diverse Career Pathways and a DEIJ Community of Practice PinesLindsey Taylor • Cait Williamson Green House: Play a game about climate change TimberlandCasey Meehan Innovative Approaches to Great Lakes Literacy and Marine Debris Prevention Salon CGinny Carlton Noticing Nature: Connecting educators with their green spaces RoweMegan Kuhl-Horbin (she/her) Resilience and Retribution: Key Components of Buffalo Nations Landmarks Eagle's LookoutStacey Snyder

3:30pm CDT

Using photography to enhance nature connectedness Badger's DenYue Li • Kendra Liddicoat • Becca Franzen