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Official Publication of the New York State Outdoor Education Association Fall 2013 Photo by: Frank Knight Red Maple Leaves www.nysoea.org 607.591.6422

NYSOEA Executive Board

President Tim Stanley VP Administration John Garesch VP Communication Eric Powers VP Human Resources GayLynne Samsonoff VP Program - Jolene Thompson Secretary - Meaghan Boice-Green Treasurer - Elizabeth Van Acker Office - Darleen Lieber

A Note from the President

Honoring Our Regional Representatives
Autumn is spectacular, and its when nature gives her best performance. The goldenrods and asters are in full bloom, the leaves are ablaze, and the trees give forth their bounty as walnuts, acorns, and hickory nuts fall to the earth. NYSOEA also displays its best each fall when the work of our organization is showcased in one single event, our Annual Conference. But our regional events and happenings are the grassroots of the organization. Each of our five regions have made unique opportunities available to its members this year, and I salute our regional directors and their groundbreaking work. Most recently, our Western region participated in Greentopia, an environmental weekend September 14-15 in Rochester, which brings people together to learn about nature and the environment. Tift Nature Center, Helmer Nature Center, and the Barn Owl Nature Center were affiliates that participated in manning a NYSOEA table with interactive displays. In addition, the Western New York Environmental Alliance, a NYSOEA partner composed of over 100 environmentally focused organizations, has made supporting the environmental literacy plan one of their initiatives this year. The Central region worked with students to create a podcast that is featured on the NYSOEA website. This short video promotes the benefits of NYSOEA to a young audience, the next generation of professionals. These SUNY ESF students also created a brochure addressing other young professionals about the benefits of participating in NYSOEA. The Eastern region has kept the Ashokan Winter Weekend alive and vibrant as a NYSOEA annual event. Planning is currently underway for next years Winter Weekend, and they are actively looking for workshops. This event is kept affordable for the young professionals who may work in EE and OE and is a great opportunity for veteran members to be mentors to a new generation of educators. In addition, the regions waffle bake sale at the 10th Annual Fresh Air Fund Maple Celebration helped raise money to send two campers, one from Newburgh, NY, and one from Buffalo, NY, to a DEC environmental camp. The Metro region represented NYSOEA at the Clearwater Music Festival in Crotonon-Hudson, and members from Green Chimneys and Teatown Lake Reservation, two of our affiliate organizations, volunteered to provide educational programming while teaching people about the work of the NYSOEA. The region also hosted a clean-up day in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy at Floyd Bennet Field in Queens. The Northern region will host our next Annual Conference at Silver Bay YMCA on Lake George. This effort will mobilize our existing affiliates and recruit new affiliate members as we enjoy the beautiful Adirondacks next October. As the seasons shift, we know that winter is a time for planning the coming year. The grassroots efforts happening within our regions bring members together and promote the organization. Contact your regional representative if you have an event youd like to co-sponsor with NYSOEA, have an idea for an regional event, or know of place that would be a good outreach opportunity. Hats off to all of our regions and their representatives.

Regional Directors
Eastern - Amanda Ackers & Natalie Rider Metro - Jessica Kratz Sunny Corrao Northern - Brian DeGroat Western - Kimberly May & Caryn Corriere Central - Benette Whitmore, Ph.D Beth Folta, Ph.D

2013 Annual NYSOEA Conference

MaryLynne Malone

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Issue Editors Jessica Kratz Nichole Gatherer Graphic Designer Matthew Fraher Content Editors Sarah Conley Darleen Lieber Jill Eisenstein Richard Parisio (Poetry Editor) Benette Whitmore, Ph. D. Online Content/ Marketing Manager Jonathan Duda Contributing Past Editors Frank Knight Snapper Petta

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The Most Wonderful Time of Year

Written and photographed by Jessica R. Kratz A few years ago, Staples took Andy Williams familiar holiday season classic and used it in a commercial where an exuberant father took his less-than-enthused children shopping for school supplies. While not everyone would consider the transition from summer to fall to be the happiest season of all, it is certainly a season of foundations and new beginnings. The beginning of the school year brings a sense of newness: new clothing, new people to meet, new subjects to learn. Jewish people celebrate the start of a new year during Rosh Hashanah. As part of the celebration, apples are dipped in honey in hope of a sweet new year. Shortly after the school year begins, buses do more than transport students to and from school. They become the vessels for voyages of discovery, making memorable field trips possible. The trip need not be long or far away to make an impact. My most memorable field trip was less than 20 minutes round-trip from my school and took less than half a day, yet felt like a world away. Pathways Fall 2013 It was a sunny day in early October 1989. I was in the 5th grade, and our teacher took us to Great Kills Park, part of the National Park Service Gateway National Recreation Area. While I had probably been here before, my family was not in the habit of visiting shorelines in the fall. This is the first time I remember seeing sumac leaves and berries so bright red. I also remember different kinds of crab shells for the first time: lady crabs, horseshoe crabs, fiddler crabs. The trip was rich with sensory detail: bold colors, the textures of shells and sand, and the scent of saltwater. This is also the first time I remember meeting a park ranger, and I still recall how passionate she was about the natural world and how patient she was in explaining everything and answering our questions. While I cannot remember what the class did the rest of the day, I am sure there was plenty of time for discussion and other learning when we returned to school. In this era of tight budgets and even greater time constraints, field trips are sometimes considered an unnecessary luxury. We need to reduce or eliminate the barriers. For

administrators, the challenge is to convince teachers and superintendents that class trips to outdoor settings will incorporate Common Core learning standards and pay dividends greater than or equal to the time and resources needed to make the trip possible. For classroom teachers, the challenge is to find the funds, time, and necessary permissions to make a trip that involves getting dirty and outside of the classroom possible. But what richer primary source text is there than nature itself? The outdoors is rich with possibilities for interdisciplinary learning, vocabulary gains, and knowledge transfer. Crisp, cool days and natures gradual display of her fall plumage prompt closer investigation. The National Park Service recognizes that bus transportation may be the largest barrier to access and offers Bus On Us programs, such as the one to the Roosevelt-Vanderbilt National Historic Sites in the Hudson Valley. Visit http://www.nps.gov/vama/upload/BusOnUs.pdf for more information. At Teaching the Hudson Valley this past July, an educator asked what a teacher should choose if they could only take one field trip per year. The speaker replied, choose the one trip that you feel will do the most good for your students. Book an outdoor field trip this fall, and it will truly be the most wonderful time of year for you and your students.

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Red Maple
A Tree For Enjoying, Planting & Learning

Written and photographed by Frank Knight

A Tree For All Seasons & Growing Conditions

The red maple has the widest range of any native tree in North America from Canada to Florida, west to the Great Plains edge. Its success can be credited, in part, to its adaptability. It grows with wet feet thus the name Swamp Maple, or in drier uplands withstanding winter cold and summer heat. Low maintenance and few insect pests highly recommend it for cultivation. Red maple is perfectly named. Red is apparent all year: winter buds and twigs, leaf stems, flowers, fruit; and finally in fall, glorious scarlet.

We wont be visiting New York this autumn, so well not be surrounded by fall color one of the natural phenomena (like crickets, cicadas, and katydids) that we miss about the Great Northeast here in Washington State. However, we do get a little nostalgic glimpse of New York tall tree color with the eastern red maple (Acer rubrum) grown here. The vast majority of vegetation in the Pacific Northwest is evergreen best able to thrive in this winter rain, summer drought climate. The few native deciduous trees (bigleaf maple, red alder) able to survive a rainless growing season, turn yellowbrown and drop come fall. Property owners and municipalities fill the color void with two landscaping trees: the Japanese maple (A. palmatum) and the eastern red maple. Large nurseries with many varieties of Japanese maple satisfy this thirst for color. Just as in the east, this small tree is popular for home landscaping. The medium to tall red maple is a widely used lawn, street, and parking lot tree here. I planted a red maple, my favorite, years ago in my yard in New York. Pathways Fall 2013

Trees and the 4th Grade Social Studies and Science Curricula
Last year, ECOS: The Environmental Clearinghouse near Albany published a 38-page illustrated booklet, Landscaping with Native Trees, that I wrote to promote the use of natives in a nursery market dominated by alien species. With each of the 18 trees described, I included an Americana paragraph explaining how that tree contributed to the natural and cultural history of America. As I explained in the booklet introduction, we can plant on our property and 5

school grounds examples of those trees we most enjoy in the wild. Having natives just outside our window is a constant reminder of how native trees are interwoven into the fabric of American life; their benefits to wildlife, native people, and the cultural and economic growth of America. You can get a free copy of this Copyright Common booklet from ECOS, www.ecosny.org to see all my Americana descriptions. I excerpted some of the red maple description here as an example. I recommend that each student choose a native and research and write their own description, adding language arts to the educational mix. The red maple is one of our finest shade trees. The relatively soft wood is not usually used for lumber. This maple has gone to market as box veneer, interior finish, flooring, kitchenware, clothes hangers, and clothes pins Peter Kalm, Linnaeus botanist in America, noted its use as a dye and for many small wood products Native people burned rotten red maple wood to make lye, which was used in boiling white oak acorns to extract cooking oil. I feel that children should learn how to use simple keys like the Tree Finder to indentify trees they could submit a pressed leaf, drawing, rubbing, or photo they took with their description but gaining an appreciation of how trees enrich our lives is far more important. Help them find favorite tree science, art, and fiction books.

Bibliography Cope, J.A., Winch, Jr., Fred, Know Your Trees, Id Keys and Profiles of 50 common trees in New York, 68 p. 1927, revised 2002 by E.A. Cope. A classic from Cornell Gardening Resources. Download pdf at http://www.gardening.cornell.edu/woodies/ Ingoglia, Gina, ASLA, The Tree Book For Kids and Their Grown-Ups, Brooklyn Botanic Garden, 2008. Knight, Frank, Landscaping with Native Trees, 38 p. illustrated, ECOS: The Environmental Clearinghouse, Inc., Niskayuna, NY, 2012 www.ecosny.org Locker, Thomas The Sky Tree Seeing science through art, HarperCollins Publishers, 1995. Silverstein, Shel, The Giving Tree, HarperCollins Publishers, 1964. Watts, May T., Tree Finder, Nature Study Guild Publishers, Rochester, NY, www.naturestudyguild.com with bulk order discounts.

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AffIlIate SpotlIght:

Rogers Environmental Education Center

and now operate the Center. This agreement allows Rogers to stay open to the public and gives Friends of Rogers the ability to continue to offer environmental and educational public programs, display a rich collection of NYS birds, provide interpretive exhibits, and maintain the many trails and trout ponds.

The Rogers Environmental Education Center located in Sherburne, NY encompasses 600 acres of New York State owned property. Rogers was a fully funded state operated education center for approximately fifty years; from the late 1960s-2010. After statewide budget cuts were made during the spring of 2011, the Friends of Rogers negotiated a 10-year facility/land Use and Occupancy Agreement with NYSDEC Pathways Fall 2013

This summer the Friends of Rogers Environmental Education Center continued to provide educational opportunities and summer youth programs for our members and community. Such opportunities consisted of our Youth Summer Series, downriver paddle trips, Chesapeake Bay Watershed and Heartland Bioregion presentations. Friends of Rogers also grew with visitations during the summer; attendance has been off the charts nearly surpassing 7,000 on property during the past 8-months. At this rate, we are on par to surpass 10,000 visitors during the span of 2013! In addition to increasing our overall attendance, we have been able to bring back school visitations. We scheduled more than 20 on-site program visits with neighboring schools over the course of May-August and look to further increase our program presence at Rogers during 2014. The mission of the Friends of Rogers is to provide outstanding educational opportunities that excite, inspire, and motivate people of all ages to enjoy, understand, appreciate and protect our natural environment. For more information about the Friends of Rogers or to make a tax deductible donation please visit www.FriendsofRogers.org

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North American Envirothon 2013

by Kenneth Greenyer, age 18 Bozeman, Montana, August 9, 2013. The suspense was almost unbearable as the master of ceremonies began to announce the fifteen top-ranked teams of the 2013 North American Envirothon. A record 57 teams from across the United States and Canada had participated in this years event, and the competition had been intense. Representing New York for a third year in a row, our team from the Mount Academy in Esopus, NY, felt pretty sure we had made it into one of the top five placesbut exactly where? As North Americas largest high school environmental science competition, the Envirothon tests students knowledge in forestry, aquatic ecology, wildlife, soils and land use, and current environmental issues. Every year, winning state and provincial teams gather for the final level of competition,with this years event being hosted at Montana State University, located in the scenic foothills of the Rocky Mountains. Our team traveled on August 3, 2013, arriving a day early at Montana State University to prepare for the competition and to become acquainted with the natural surroundings. In addition to visiting some of the local mountain canyons and waterfalls, we also tested each other on the identification of native plants and animals. After registration and opening ceremonies on Sunday night, we participated in Mondays training sessions, where environmental experts educated us about local flora and fauna and described Montanas rangeland ecosystems. The training site was a ranch in Paradise Valley, where we had a majestic view of the surrounding mountain ranges. Tuesday was field testing day. Despite the confidence we had felt during the training session, we were all little nervous as we rotated through the various testing areas and worked hard to complete both the written and practical components of each exam. Since each of our team members had studied three of the five

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environmental content areas, we could work together to recall key information. When the testing rotations finally ended, we were relieved and happy that it had turned out so well.On Wednesday, all 500 Envirothon participants and organizers took a break from the competition and visited Yellowstone National Park. There we saw the eruption of Old Faithful geyser and the other incredible volcanic features of the park. Thursday was an intense day of preparation for the oral presentation component of the Envirothon. Worth twice the amount of points as any of the field tests, the oral presentation challenges teams critical thinking skills and communication abilities. They must formulate and present a set of valid recommendations for a current environmental problem. Due to the complexity of the scenario and the short amount of time in which teams have to prepare and rehearse, the oral presentation is probably the toughest part of the competition. For this years scenario, we had to role-play an advisory committee that made recommendations to an economically struggling ranching family. Their extensive operation was facing problems in three major areas: environmental challenges due to invasive species and fire risks; reduced economic profitability due to poor management practices; and sociocultural tensions with neighboring stakeholders. Having experienced oral preparation at previous national events, we realized how essential it was to organize our thoughts and plans. Although the six hours of preparation were stressful and frantic at times, we somehow managed to fit all of our plans into our presentation and create three posters that highlighted our major talking points. When we gave our preliminary presentation to one of the judging panels on Friday morning, we felt encouraged by the judges positive responses and thoughtful questions. After lunch, we joined all the other teams in the gymnasium and nervously waited to hear which three teams had the highest oral presentation scores. These three teams would then represent their plans in front of all the other teams to compete for the award for best presentation. Before we knew it, our team was announced as having one of the top three scores, and we excitedly left the gym to prepare for our final performance! By the end of the awards banquet that night, we had won first place in oral presentation as well as top score in the forestry field test. Best of all, we had earned the most cumulative points in the competition, making New York State the North American Envirothon champion for the first time in the events 26-year history! Thank you to all those who supported our team and made this success possible. We appreciate the many natural resource professionals who took time from their busy schedules both to coach our team and to organize the various levels of Envirothon competition. Your efforts have given us a greater understanding and appreciation for the environment and a lasting sense of responsibility to remain good stewards of Earths resources.

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RAMBLINGS FrOM RED HILL

Where the Wild Things Are

inside all of us is adventure. Inside all of us is a wild thing. Maurice Sendak Where do you find adventure? Where is your wildness? Have you ever thought about that? For me, Im surrounded by a world that opens up adventures, both great and small, on a daily basis. On a walk across campus the other day I noticed a tour group stopped outside a building, which typically isnt a highlight of the route. Each person looked in my direction, but I knew their gaze wasnt concentrated on me. What was holding their interest? A porcupine, waddling furiously across the lawn, was making a beeline for a tree and refuge. My guess is none of these people ever expected to have this encounter while touring a college campus; but hey, this is where the wild things are. The truth of the matter is every place you go, you have the opportunity to find wildness and a sense of adventure; you just need to be open to it. I remember a workshop session many years ago in downtown Saratoga. We were gathered in Congress Park, surrounded by the flowing waters and sulfurous odor burbling from the numerous fountains, when a distinctive sound interrupted our leaders presentation. The teachable moment that all educators long for appeared in the form of a pileated woodpecker. Clinging to the side of the tree, this bird chipped tirelessly away at the layers of wood. Enlarging the cavity as it carved deeper and deeper into the tree, we watched silently from below, spellbound by this animals natural behavior. Just another reminder, this too is where the wild things are. Even a morning commute can draw you into a world where wild things abound. While uncommon for some, my daily drive is a gauntlet of sorts. Within a half mile of home, Ive had to dodge and weave my vehicle around turkey, deer, numerous rabbits, the occasional coyote, woodchuck, and squirrels. Our road has more wildlife than cars, making it a perfect location to film an episode of Wild Kingdom. This adventure in driving is part of the charm of living where I do; although on the days the turkey cant decide which way to go, the charm can be fleeting. My point though is this: theres never a time when any of us are far removed from wild things. Be it the quintessential inner city gray squirrel, a suburban chickadee foraging free meals from a feeder, or a country crow proclaiming its presence, we are all surrounded by wild things. Each of these chance encounters is another deposit in our bank of memories, giving us something to withdraw in the days ahead when were confined indoors. Embrace these small adventures. Make them part of your wildness. Open yourself to their possibilities. Let them lead you to where the wild things are. Until next time, may all your rambles lead you to new and exciting adventures!

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The Common Core + The Next Generation Leave No Child Inside

A shriek of joy and triumph was soon followed by a scream of terror, There are spiders all around us! Think back to when you learned how to ride a bicycle. Perhaps a parent or older sibling patiently guided you through to success. Wobbly steering followed by several requisite crashes ultimately led to your achievement. At some magical point, with the coaching of your teacher (probably a parent or older sibling), you and only you were able to get all that it takes the balance, coordination, and confidence to ride a bicycle to head down that road! I often think about the similarities between learning how to ride a bicycle and developing both the science content and skills of my students. Now, back to the spiders On a night hike, I began asking my students questions about what they thought were important for nocturnal animals. Perhaps it was the darkness, perhaps it was the quietness of the forest, but all were volunteering answers. Most mentioned being able to see at night. With that, I instructed them how to best see with their flashlights or headlamps Your eyes need to be parallel with your light to see the eye-shine of nocturnal animals. I wasnt teaching as much as guiding, just as my mentor taught me how to ride a bicycle many years ago. Then, at a wonderful moment, each student was able to connect with what I was coaching their ability to see and observe. They saw those spiders all around us! Wolf spiders come out at night in vast numbers with emerald green eyes that reflected their presence to those who knew how to observe. More and more, I am convinced that good teaching means being a good guide. Students need to construct meaning for them, if it is to be enduring. Have any of us forgotten how to ride a bicycle? How do we develop really encourage, our students to tap into their innate human curiosity and to develop their scientific literacy?

by Dan Bisaccio Director of Science Education Brown University Providence, RI Member of the Board of Directors The Brandwein Institute Milford, PA Brandwein Nature Learning Preserve Greenville, NY. Daniel_Bisaccio@Brown.edu

Both The Common Core and The Next Generation Science Standards guide teachers to develop scientific habits of mind that foster both scientific literacy and the practice of science. The real question for educators is: How can we address this and prep our students for the state science assessments? Students become scientifically literate by doing science as science is done. Whether in the field or classroom, we need to engage young students with the undertaking of science as an active process. Get them involved in being scientists take them to the field!

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What do our K-12 science students need to know and do to become scientifically literate? As science educators, we need to re-examine the pedagogical goals of field experiences and consider the following:

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Location/How to get there: The Brandwein nature trails are located about 25 minutes from downtown Milford, PA, 15 minutes from Port Jervis, and 25 minutes from Middletown, NY. - Take Interstate 84 to Exit 2 on Mountain Road in New York State - Turn left at County Route 35/Mountain Road 1.0 miles (Cross U.S. Route 6 at blinker light) - Turn left at Minisink Turnpike (proceed approximately 1.6 miles and pass entrance to the BrandweinHomestead, Sun Hill Farm on the left at 390 Minisink Turnpike). - Continue down Minisink Turnpike another 0.2 mile to the BrandweinNature Learning Preserve on the right. Pull into the entrance; drive and park in the bus parking area. School classes, club groups, and families may explore and enjoy the Brandwein Nature Learning Preserve with special permission. To visit, download the Preserve Use Regulations and the required application on the Brandwein website at: http://brandwein.org/preserve. There is no fee for use of the Preserve. Requests for use must be received a minimum of 30 days prior to the intended date of the visit. Lesson plans and skill-building exercises, designed to be performed at the Preserve, are also on the Brandwein website at the above URL. The activities were authored by Brandwein Fellows, veteran science teachers who use the outdoors as a learning lab for students. Teachers and student classes visiting the Preserve range from kindergartener to high school honors students, all performing field investigations (check the URL for suggested field study activities). Heres what an elementary teacher wrote about her recent classs visit to the Preserve: Thank you for a wonderful field trip. We learned so much, and the children had so much fun spending the day out in the fresh air and observing things in nature. Each trail offered some wonderful lessons for us to share with our students. We talked about the environment, birds, amphibians, plants, and habitats. All these lessons tied perfectly into our new Common Core Anthologies we have been teaching our students this year. I am looking forward to scheduling a field trip again next year. Periodic professional development/training sessions are held at the Preserve. Please check the website for ongoing news and activities at the Brandwein Nature Land Preserve!

Continually strive toward mastery of the skills and content as outlined in national and state departments of education standards for science education. Continually understand, appreciate, and be able to apply emerging content and skills in the sciences/technology to be informed and scientifically literate in todays world. Develop scientific habits of mind that include: scientific inquiry, methodology, data collection, and data analysis as well as being able to communicate their findings effectively.

What are the Science Curriculum Skill Areas that taking students to the field addresses?
Scientific Inquiry Scientific Methodology Designing and Conducting a Scientific Investigation Field and Laboratory Data Collection, Analysis, and
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Integrating Mathematics & Technology Skills

Melding active, authentic research with pedagogy to address scientific literacy is one way to take on this challenging essential question with content and skill acquisition for students.

A resource that is available to the New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey tri-state area teachers:
The Brandwein Nature Learning Preserve was designed by the Paul F-Brandwein Institute, a nonprofit conservation education organization, to provide a designated natural area for student study. The construction of the interpretive hiking trails began in 2010 and were officially opened in 2012 after the completion of six of the proposed seven trails. The trail system covers a 30-acre parcel of the Rutgers Creek Wildlife Conservancy and winds through natural communities including field to forest successional areas, meadows and woods, riverine, swamp, and deciduous forests and streams. Pathways Fall 2013

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Invitation for Articles and News

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2014 NYSOEA ANNUAL CONFERENCE

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