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FREE* workshop
(registration required)
The New York
Biology Teachers' Association
invites you to participate in a workshop of Living Environment Hands-on Activities Project WILD by Betsy Ukeritis Environmental Educator NYS Department of Environmental Conservation Saturday, May 15, 2010 10:00 a.m. – 2 p.m. held at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden "Thanks to Brooklyn Botanic Garden for hosting this workshop"
*-There is a $5.00 fee to cover the cost of lunch. NYBTA members will not be charged for lunch and will have their registration deposits returned to them if they attend the workshop. There will be no cost for workshop participants to enter BBG. No-cost parking is available for workshop participants in the parking lot between BBG and the Brooklyn Museum of Art. Directions will be provided with registration confirmation. All registrants will receive e-mail confirmation by May 10. If you do NOT receive a registration confirmation, you are not registered for this event and your registration fee will be returned to you. If you cancel your registration by May 5, we will return your registration fee. Cancel by sending an e-mail to programs@nybta.org -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- NYBTA Membership / Workshop Registration
Form
Space is limited. Register ASAP. Priority will be given to NYBTA members who register by April 28. If you are beginning an NYBTA membership AND wish to attend this workshop, please send separate checks for the workshop and membership. Mail this form and your
check(s) payable to NYBTA to:
NYBTA, P.O. Box 192, Brooklyn, NY 11236 by May 5. Please print all information. Name .............................................................................. ….New ..... Current Member School ….......................................................................... Address............................................................................. …...Home …....School ….......................................................ZIP.................. Home/Cell Telephone Number (.......)...........-....................... E-mail ( Required to receive notices) .......................................................................................... ….....NYBTA Membership dues (membership through 8/31/2011): $10.00 ….....Project WILD Workshop Deposit/Registration fee: $5.00 (*This check will be returned if you cancel by May 5 or if the program is over-subscribed.)
Total
Enclosed: $..................
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TUTANKHAMUN
AND
THE
GOLDEN AGE OF THE
PHAROAHS
King Tut returns to New York for the first time in over 30 years, to the Discovery Times Square Exposition in the heart of Times Square. The tour seen by millions in the 70's has returned for a once in a lifetime museum exhibition experience. Here for a limited time only--don't miss TUTANKHAMUN AND THE GOLDEN AGE OF THE PHAROAHS. YOU'RE INVITED! You and a guest are invited to visit the FREE Preview Event for Educators & Administrators! Choose: Thursday, April 29 or Friday, April 30 Time: 4-9pm (Last entry by 8pm) Location: Discovery Times Square Exposition 226 West 44th Street Manhattan For complimentary admission, you must RSVP online by April 28th. To do so, CLICK HERE and complete the RSVP form. Please print out and present your email confirmation along with your school or district ID upon check in. (Additional guests are welcome to purchase tickets at the Box Office). |
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Pace Institute for Environmental &
Regional Studies (PIERS)
Pace University, New York City Campus June 3 – 5, 2010 Conference: “The Good Life—Imagining Alternative Futures” “Men form states to secure a bare subsistence, but the ultimate object of the state is the good life.”
Aristotle, Politics
Historians and other chroniclers of the past have depicted the twentieth century in a variety of terms. Some refer to it as the ‘age of extremes’, others the ‘age of anxiety’, and still others ‘the age of science” or the age of ‘analysis’; but none have been foolish enough to call it the ‘age of the good life’ and compose eclogues in praise of it, and for very good reasons that need not be rehearsed here. There is growing public awareness, though it’s far from reaching any consensus on specific solutions, that the institutional structures of the present are not providing “the good life” for too many people. And the global ecological crisis is compelling evidence that the Enlightenment project of the “perfection of humanity” has utterly failed to produce even a shadow image of the “good life”. This conference is a forum to discuss competing but ecologically grounded conceptions of “the good life.” For
information
about the conference:
http://www.pace.edu/pace/dyson/research-and-resource-centers/academic-centers-and-institutes/piers/summer-2010-conference/ |
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| Jamaica Bay BioBlitz June 11 - 12, 2010 The 2010 BioBlitz is coming to Floyd Bennett Field June 11th and 12th! Hosted by the
National Park Service in partnership with Brooklyn College, CUNY, all
are invited to join the race and help catalog as many species as
possible in 24 hours within Floyd Bennett Field and the adjacent areas
including Plumb Beach and Dead Horse Bay. Home base will be located at
the park concessionaire, Aviator Sports and Recreation, and will host
speakers and events such as informative display tables and interpretive
walks and talks by park rangers.
For more details and registration materials, please visit the Jamaica Bay Research and Management Information Network. |
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More local activities
For information on many more local activites for science educators, visit NYAS Science Educators’ Events Calendar |
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