Living Green Expo to Offer Battery Collection, Document Shredding, Green Workshops and Children's Activities
Ventura County Star - Ventura, CA - October 1, 2010
... and the Moorpark/Simi Valley Neighborhood for Learning, will feature the Craft Corner, Share Your Green Challenge, and an interactive EnviroScape. ...
HAART students learn about pollination through new program
NewsSun.com - Sebring, FL - September 29, 2010
The various stations within the Civic Center included compost, where each child planted a wildflower seed to take home; Enviroscape, where children learned how buildings, humans, and wildlife affect the environment; ...
Tinkers Creek Watershed Festival aims to entertain, educate
GatewayNews.com - Ravenna, OH - September 15, 2010
The Tinkers Creek Watershed Partners and the Portage Park District are co-sponsoring the fifth annual Tinkers Creek Watershed Festival, Sept. 19 ... The festival will feature family-friendly activities such as fish-stamping art, an Enviroscape interactive watershed model, ...
Ag Expo is Sept. 11 at McClester Farm
Farm and Dairy - Mechanicstown, OH - September 8, 2010
At these stations, you can make craft items that are soil and water related, engage in an obstacle course/race, and explore the Enviroscape table-top environmental models. ...
Dan Haifley, Our Ocean Backyard: The ocean classroom
Santa Cruz Sentinel - Santa Cruz, CA - September 4, 2010
The watershed model was very tangible for them. Also, the mapping on the chart was hands-on and fun." In 2003, as director of O'Neill Sea Odyssey, ...
Tinkers Creek Watershed Fest slated in Streetsboro
Aurora Advocate - Ravenna, OH - August 25, 2010
The festival (Sept. 19 from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Streetsboro City Park.) will feature family-friendly activities such as fish-stamping art, an Enviroscape interactive watershed model and Boy and Girl Scout badge ...
Stearns County agency marks 60 years of soil, water conservation work
St. Cloud Times - St. Cloud, MN - July 14, 2010
There were models on display, one called Enviroscape and others that were ... "The Enviroscape model shows how basic daily living in a town can pollute its water source," SWCD spokesman Wayne Cymbaluk said.
Consultant: Hiram meeting stormwater requirements
Times-Georgian - Carrollton, GA- June 17, 2010
Fox reported that the city's enviroscape "has been very successful" and that the county has worked with the city to clean up dump sites. ...
Schools schooled on importantance of wetlands
The MooresTown Sun - Haddonfield, NJ - June 16, 2010
Stations this year included lessons on bioaccumulation, macro invertebrates, ground water, common water, wetland filters, enviroscape, storm water detention ...
Sammamish students learn to protect the watershed
The Sammamish Review - Issaquah, WA - June 8, 2010
At the Enviroscape presentation, students observed the pollution of surface and ground waters through the application of oil, pesticides and fertilizers, ...
Celebrate 'World Oceans Week' at zoo
The Times-Standard - Eureka, CA - June 6, 2010
"In collaboration with the city of Eureka's Stormwater Division, our educational outreach materials now include an "enviroscape" -- a model of our watershed ...
Sea Camps to come to kids this summer
The Orange County Register - Santa Ana, CA - May 25, 2010
Students in grades 2-6 can learn about the effects of humans on waterways through the use of tide-pool animals and a watershed model. ...
CCCD awarded $5,000 grant
Clearfield Progress - Clearfield, PA - May 24, 2010
Project outreach will include use of a drinking water enviroscape model, and will produce brochures and placemats as educational materials, coordinate with ...
Students examine water issues
Atlanticville - Freehold, NJ - May 20, 2010
By using an "enviroscape" watershed model that resembled a miniature suburban community, students observed the effects of fertilizers, oils and litter on ...
Students examine water issues
Willows Journal - Willows, CA - May 14, 2010
Staff from here and the Colusa County RCD had a booth there with a watershed model demonstrating the effects of different activities, she said. ...
Science field day a BLAST
The Rocky Mount Telegram- Rocky Mount, NC - May 8, 2010
Using a plastic "enviroscape" three-dimensional map and water bottles, Anthon showed students what happens when stormwater carries animal excrement into ...
Celebrating Public Works
Inland Empire News - San Bernardino, CA - May 5, 2010
Environmental Management will also be onsite with an enviroscape. The San Bernardino County Museum is at the California Street exit from Interstate 10 in ...
Environmental Field Trip Encourages Student-to-Student Learning
Bay Net - Calvert, St. Mary's & Charles County, MD - April 26, 2010
The elementary students brought their clipboards and field journals, ready to learn from Lindsay Tempinson's explanations of ecology using an enviroscape to ...
Students learn new things at 2010 Environment Expo
Saipan Tribune - Garapan, Saipan - April 22, 2010
Olivia Tebuteb of DEQ's Nonpoint Source Pollution Branch booth, demonstrated through their interactive Enviroscape model how land pollution ends up in the ...
George Goes Green event draws 700 people
Georgetown Times - Georgetown County, SC - April 18, 2010
Using an Enviroscape watershed model, Murrells Inlet 2020 volunteer Bob Freemon demonstrates the many ways that water can become polluted. ...
April is full of green events
Honolulu Star-Bulletin - Honolulu, HI - April 9, 2010
Hui o Ko'olaupoko hosts its second annual Earth Day, offering educational exhibits, a hands-on watershed model and wetland bird guessing game. ...
For youngsters, floods of facts at water fest
The Orange County Register - Santa Ana, CA - March 24, 2010
The booths, even those with titles like "Water Treatment Plant" and "Watershed Model," seemed to energize the fourth, fifth and sixth graders, who immersed ...
Organ concert, cleanup among weekend's marquee happenings
The Sun News - Houston, TX - May 17, 2010
There are also EnviroScape educational presentations made in Houston County elementary schools to instruct youngsters on the importance of caring for the ...
Water program for kids set at Richland Library
The News Tribune - Tacoma, WA - January 22, 2010
An interactive tabletop watershed model will help explain what a watershed is and how to prevent sources of pollution. This program is designed for ...
Forest park's green steward
Inside Nova.com - Manassas, VA - January 14, 2010
"Lizzie" Saccoccia is the winner of two awards: the Girl Scouts Gold Award and the 2009 Ducks Unlimited Conservationist of the Year award.... Saccoccia organized a project that included learning how to use an EnviroScape watershed model ... to educate others about watersheds and sources of pollution that affect waterways. ...
Tyson Foods makes donation to Forsyth County non-profit group
NorthFulton.com - Alpharetta, GA - November 16, 2009
Tyson Foods donated a stormwater pollution and runoff enviroscape to Reaping Nature Educational Outreach Foundation, Inc. in October valued .... The enviroscape is valued addition to our resources and will enhance our environmental education water program," said Carleton. ...
Aquarium takes new approach to help keep the Sound clean
The Hour, Norwalk, CT - November 5, 2009
Herring said Creature Encounters will include an EnviroScape -- a topographical scale model into which children can pour contaminants and then watch the ....
Pushing for a greener Carlisle
Carlisle Sentinel, Carlisle, PA - September 26, 2009
[picture on right-hand side] Katie Leite, 11, left, her sister, Erin Leite, 12, middle, and Heather Furlong, 12, right, all of Mechanicsburg and members of Girl Scout Troop 597 in Mechanicsburg, check out the EnviroScape model.
Festival will make a splash in Palmyra
Burlington County Times, Philadelpha, PA - September 26, 2009
Cinnaminson High School students Tom McGann and Josh McKinley presented their "Enviroscape," a watershed model to show how pollution can spread throughout a ...
Free water quality basics workshop set
Galena Gazette, Galena, IL - August 31, 2009
The program will utilize an EnviroScape, a large scale model that demonstrates the movement of water through a watershed and the pollution runoff may cause. ...
Waste Management donates cash for environmental programs
Ashtabula Star-Beacon - Ashtabula, OH - August 23, 2009
Ashtabula Soil and Water Conservation District official Jim Welker will present Enviroscape, which is the first program at the facility, she said. ...
DEP Awards $357000 in Annual Environmental Education Grants: Programs Provide Training, Hands-On Activities for Students, Others
Greentech Media - Galena, IL - August 17, 2009
Monroe County Conservation District-$3,000-A two-day watershed workshop for teachers will include using the EnviroScape drinking and wastewater treatment model and a trip to perform stream surveys and sampling....
RiverFest combines family fun, ecology
The Republican - MassLive.com - Springfield, MA - June 11, 2009
The festival will feature an "enviroscape," a plastic model of the watershed composed of basic household food items used to explain the conservation ...
"We also make use of a model watershed landscape called the Enviroscape to teach about water pollution especially from non-point sources. ...
Sun News - Cleveland.com - Independence, OH - July 25, 2009
Enviroscapes are tabletop models that provide an interactive demonstration ... The first Enviroscape demonstrated drinking water sources and wastewater ...
RiverFest combines family fun, ecology
The Republican - MassLive.com - Springfield, MA - June 11, 2009
The festival will feature an "enviroscape," a plastic model of the watershed composed of basic household food items used to explain the conservation ...
Students Work on Wetlands Project
Martinsburg Journal - Martinsburg, WV - June 5, 2009
Recently, Stevens took students to Mill Creek Intermediate along with Wuertenberg, to teach the students with the enviroscape, which is a watershed model. ...
Morristown native leads watershed initiative
The Star-Ledger - NJ.com - Newark, NJ - June 4, 2009
... she had just finished teaching second-grade students about keeping rivers clean, using a three-dimensional plastic "Enviroscape" that showed how pollutants eventually flowed into the watershed. ...
Wickliffe Elementary students urge Fende to sponsor Ohio Brook ...
News-Herald.com - Willoughby, OH - May 14, 2009
Standing on the business side of the teaching tool - the Enviroscape Watershed/Nonpoint Source Pollution Model - four slightly older kids are bent on ...
Rota Environmental Expo a great success!
Saipan Tribune - Saipan,Northern Mariana Islands, Micronesia- May 14, 2009
... a Jeopardy-style game to teach children about marine protected areas, a coral reef presentation, local medicinal plants, and an enviroscape model. ...
Celebrating stream consciousness at LeTort Festival
Carlisle Sentinel - Carlisle, PA - May 4, 2009
... Maryann Skubecz of the Conodoguinet Creek Watershed Association showed him an EnviroScape watershed model complete with houses, farms and buffer areas. "Cows can make pollution," ... dropping a muddy brown substance at the feet of three cows on the model.
Earth Day Observers
Harrison Daily Times - Harrison, AR - April 24, 2009
Visitors to the North Arkansas College Green Team booth learned about ground-water pollution from a enviroscape display that was provided by Bill Lord with ...
Library gives away trees ahead of Earth Day
News Chief - Winter Haven, FL - April 19, 2009
For the children, Selser had an "EnviroScape," a large plastic diorama sprinkled with cocoa powder and grape-flavored Koolaid to represent pesticides and ...
Earth Day '09
San Clemente Times - San Clemente, CA - April 19, 2009
Among the displays this year is a beehive (behind glass) presented by the OC Beekeepers Association, a watershed model by Surfrider, ...
Staunton Marks Earth Day
Staunton News Leader - Staunton, VA - April 16, 2009
Headwaters Soil & Water Conservation Districts: Enviroscapes/watershed models, water pollution demonstration, Lewis Creek Watershed water tasting, ...
Students ready to head to fairgrounds for Earth Day
Miami County Republic - Paola, KS - April 15, 2009
Topics on the program include a portable sawmill demonstration, EnviroScape, H20 olympics, water quality hopscotch, Earth adventure, our precious ground ...
Watershed Wagon to be a welcome addition
Gulf Coast Newspapers - Daphne, AL - March 27, 2009
The coastal model by Enviroscapes enables the traveling educators to use water containing different tints to show how various pollutants reach our bays and ...
Fair will put focus on a cleaner, greener planet
San Diego Union Tribune - San Diego, CA - March 20, 2009
Cynthia Mallett, an environmental specialist with the Oceanside water department's Clean Water Program, will use a watershed model [EnviroScape] to demonstrate how the ...
Grace Goes Green
BainbridgeGa.com - Bainbridge, GA - March 18, 2009
With the help of Suzanne Brandt, Keep Decatur County Beautiful Executive Director, they have taken the EnviroScape experiment on the road. ...
HWQP preparing for festival next month
Miami County Republic - Paola, KS, - March 18, 2009
The group hosts a variety of events and presentations to local schools and organizations, including EnviroScape. The three-dimensional model includes residential areas, construction sites, hills, forest, a factory and a lake. The model shows the movement of water through a watershed. ...
Every Drop is Precious: Leeds Elementary School Students Learn ...
Business Wire (press release) - San Francisco, CA - March 9, 2009
Rufft will show a video produced especially for fourth graders by the American Water Works Association and use an underground water model and EnviroScape® interactive models to demonstrate how water becomes polluted. She will also lead discussions about water sources...
Group looks ahead: A local lake organization met Friday morning, looking toward the future.
The Evening Leader - St. Marys, OH - December 12, 2008
Walker mentioned a new Enviroscape model available, as well as a new groundwater ... "It definitely gets the point across," Walker said of the Enviroscape. ...
Laurel takes second in watershed challenge
New Castle News
New Castle News - New Castle, PA - November 4, 2008
An enviroscape demonstration was part of the watershed session, and mounts and pelts were displayed at the wildlife station. A luncheon and awards ceremony ...
Recently: Fresh air, sunshine and creek critters
The Carrboro Citizen - Carrboro, NC - October 9, 2008
Enviroscape was a big hit with children, as well as Wendy Smith, Trish D'Arconte and others with the Chapel Hill Stormwater Management Department demonstrating the effects of stormwater runoff. ...
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Science Sisters Club to meet Thursday
Asheville Citizen Times - Asheville, NC - October 6, 2008
She will use RiverLink's Enviroscape, a plastic model of a watershed, to demonstrate the role of roads, buildings, animals, factories and farms play in the watershed. ...
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Children's health and safety expo set for Saturday
Lansdale Reporter - Lansdale, PA - September 17, 2008
The North Penn Water Authority will display its Enviroscape, which shows the effects of pollution on water, she said. In the rear parking lot, ...
Grey-to-green idea takes root at festival
Youngstown Vindicator - Youngstown, OH - September 15, 2008
Crystal Denman and Anna Garback, both Youngstown State University scholars, volunteered to perform demonstrations on an enviroscape, a 3-D depiction of an of an ordinary landscape. The two used different colors of food coloring and a powdered drink mix to simulate the effects of pesticides, antifreeze, oil, animal waste and other potential pollutants on water....
Haywood kids program focuses on water quality
Asheville Citizen-Times - Asheville, NC - September 11, 2008
Throughout the day, students rotate through four stations, fish, benthic macroinvertebrates, water chemistry and the Enviroscape watershed model, to learn about the ecological interactions occurring within a watershed, water pollution, and methods to evaluate water quality....
Kids take journey into the wild
Tampabay.com - St. Petersburg,FL - August 13, 2008
... Kim Makoid, youth education specialist, set up a tabletop watershed model. Several children suggested a watershed was a shed that held water.... The model landscape included a farm, a small community of homes, a factory, a golf course, an earth-moving site, all in the neighborhood of a stream running to a lake. At Makoid's direction, the youths sprinkled ...
RiverLink to offer watershed education volunteer training
Asheville Citizen-Times - NC - August 7, 2008
... located at the Asheville Botanical Gardens and will focus on lessons such as the Enviroscape watershed model and the national Project WET curriculum. ...
Hands-On Learning: Event at Winter Haven Library Provides Educational Fun to 500 Children
The Ledger - Lakeland, FL - July 18, 2008
He had just learned a lesson in conservation through a hands-on learning tool called an Enviroscape. Mateo and his brother, Juan, 3, were among about 500 ...
Claudia Sternbach: Save Our Shores is a concept worth celebrating
San Jose Mercury News - San Jose, CA - July 13, 2008
At tabling events Save Our Shores has a Watershed Model -- a region with towns, roads, farms, parking structure, storm drains, schools etc. with mountains ...
Large number of SSHS students volunteer for Festival
Reno Gazette Journal - Reno, NV - June 18, 2008
Using an Enviroscape model, Lane simulated pollutants and ways impacts a watershed. Non-point source pollution comes from improper use of fertilizer and ...
Salute to farming this Saturday
Progressor Times - Carey, OH - June 11, 2008
An "enviroscape" demonstration will explain to viewers how society affects the environment. Ag Bingo and an animated ag computer game will be among other ...
The Report Card
Asheville Citizen-Times - NC - June 9, 2008
Environmental education classes in K-12 classrooms were offered from Project WET, EnviroScapeT, River of Words and Art, UNC Asheville's ROVER outreach ...
Mote to host World Ocean Day Family Festival
Bradenton Herald - FL - May 20, 2008
The Sarasota Bay Estuary Program will conduct demonstrations with a watershed model, the Southwest Florida Water Management District will discuss why water ...
Club clears drains, learns about water conservation
Ocala.com - Ocala, FL - May 20, 2008
... and labeling project at the school, brought a model of a neighborhood called an "Enviroscape" to the group and demonstrated how stormwater runoff works. ...
NHMS students 'go green' on Earth Day
Northeast Georgian - April 25, 2008
Soque River Watershed Association Director Duncan Hughes led a demonstration of the enviroscape, a scaled-down model of a watershed. Social studies teacher Linda Camp led a group in poster creation highlighting environmental issues on other continents ...
Students get lesson in protecting groundwater
Eagle Tribune - North Andover, MA - April 20, 2008
He put different colors of Kool-Aid powder on various points of the watershed model to represent pollution. Then Webb sprayed water, simulating a rain storm ...
Environmental information flows from the 'Water Dude'
Portsmouth Herald News - Portsmouth, NH - April 20, 2008
... Byrd and Adam Torrey simulate groundwater movement and contamination by pouring food coloring into a watershed model at the Seacoast Science Center. ...
San Juan Capistrano on April 24 will host its Earth Day Fair that ...
PR-Inside.com (Pressemitteilung) - Wien, Austria - April 15, 2008
Youngsters and adults can learn from hands-on displays, environmental computer games and an enviroscape model that demonstrates how common household items ...
They are their river's keeper Library program teaches kids about ...
Hudson Reporter - Hoboken, NJ - April 11, 2008
To demonstrate his point, Manthey came armed with the Riverkeeper's EnviroScape, a plastic model of a typical town, complete with houses, cars, ...
Watershed
event announces competition winners
Tribune Chronicle (Warren, OH) - Nov.
5, 2007
An Enviroscape demonstration was part of the watersheds session.
Mounts and pelts could be seen at the wildlife station. First
Place in this year's ...
Soil
and water conservation official
Port Clinton News Herald, OH - Oct. 22,
2007
By presenting the information with an Enviroscape, a model
to simulate pollution problems, the students were able to
see first hand how pollution can affect ...
For
the Family
Philadelphia Inquirer, PA - Oct 7, 2007
... and New Jersey's new Watershed Ambassadors will demonstrate
the Enviroscape, a hands-on model of a watershed that shows
where everyday pollutants go. ...
Streets
Run site in Baldwin Borough OK'd for wetlands
Pittsburgh Post Gazette, PA - Oct 4, 2007
He also explained that education has been the main focus of
the group, which uses an enviroscape -- a miniature watershed
display -- for school ...
It's
Country Fair time in West Amwell
Lambertville Beacon m NJ - Sept 13, 2007
The Stony Brook-Millstone Watershed Association will explain
it with an "enviroscape" model, which gives an aerial
view of what happens when pollutants get ...
Town
gets federal funds to help scoop the poop
Portsmouth Herald News, NH - Aug 20, 2007
"I have already had a very successful public demonstration
at the Jason Hussey Day using an enviroscape," said Anderson.
"About 300 people watched how pet ...
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From
sanitation to royal court
NKU The Northerner Online, KY - Aug 22,
2007
"In the fall I went to local schools and taught an hour
lesson called Enviroscape," she said. "Then in the
spring, many of those same kids came to the ...
Children’s
Museum brings Wyland water exhibit to Kaua‘i
Lihue Garden Island, HI - Aug 18, 2007
Third, there is a watershed demonstration during which participants
can use an enviroscape to observe how nonpoint source pollution
occurs. ...
Environmental
Education Just Got Easier!
PR Newswire (press release) - New York, NY, USA
"We used this new EnviroScape(R) to educate
more than 5000 kids at our Children's Water Festival. Our educators
thought the product was fantastic! ...
Where
there's a well, there's a way in Winton Woods school
Community Press - Florence, KY, USA
White used an "enviroscape" model to
show a birds-eye view of the damages of pesticides and herbicides
to natural water. "It especially comes from my house ...
Riverfest
2006 Kicks off this Saturday
Halton Herald - Ontario, Canada
... On Sunday, June 4th, from noon to 8 pm, family
activities will include the Children's Water Festival programs such
as "Enviroscape Wetlands"...
Agriculture
students participate in Home and Garden Show
FHSU News and Current Events - Hays, KS
... One demonstration, by the Agronomic Crop Production
class, covered pollution through "Enviroscape," which visually
demonstrated where pollution can originate ...
Earth
Day events are set in QC
Quad City Times - Davenport, IA
... Additionally, the exhibit would include
an Enviroscape, a watershed and water source model that demonstrates
how different land uses affect water quality. ...
FLC
family science night held
The Rockport Pilot, Rockport, TX
Fulton 4-5 Learning Center recently held a family
science night ... focused on astronomy and oceanography. .... The
purpose of the grant is to increase elementary students’ understanding
of the earth sciences
Seeds
of Conservation to be Planted
SignonSanDiego.com by the Union Tribune
The Solana Center for Environmental Innovation
will display a three-dimensional watershed model. "It has a forest,
a farm area and a factory – all the components of a community
. . . It shows road runoff, storm drains and how pollution funnels
through the watershed and ends up in the ocean.”
El
Dorado Children Learn Environmental Lessons
El Dorado Times, KS
.. There was also an “enviroscape”
which provided children with a watershed model..
Hands-on
Learning Teaches Water Quality Protection
News 8 Austin, TX
... Water quality lessons and enviroscape studies
showed how pollution is washed from land into waterways.
California
Company Makes Major Donation Toward Environmental Education
Press Release
Students
Learn of Pollution's Effects
North County Times
‘Yucky’
Stuff Teaches Kids About Environment
Georgetown Times
Watershed
Model Offered to Schools
Observer-Tribune
Earth
Fair Provides Look at Workings of Natural World Environment
The Times Herald
Sustainability
Focus of Earth Day Event
The Amber Gazette
Students
Learn to Protect Waterways
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