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Painted Palette-Poppies

April 25, 2013 from 6:30pm to 8:30pm – Irvine Nature Center The Painted Palette is the Baltimore area’s newest venue for art and wine entertainment. Bring your friends, enjoy a glass of wine or beer, and follow our instructor step-by-step to recreate your ver… Organized by Beth Lacey Gill | Type: adult, craft

Wilderness First Aid: Two-Day Certification Course

May 4, 2013 at 8am to May 5, 2013 at 6pm – Black Earth Campus, Aldo Leopold Nature Center No one likes to admit it, but when people encounter nature, accidents happen. Stings, bites, rashes, breaks, and sprains are all too common when you spend time outdoors. What’s really important is ho… Organized by Alanna Medearis | Type: adult, workshop
Wild about Fish!: Project WILD and Angler Education Program

May 4, 2013 from 9am to 4pm – Aldo Leopold Nature Center Registration deadline: Friday, April 26, 2013 Join us for a day of Project WILD and Angler Education! Discover how explorations of fish and their aquatic habitats coupled with guided adventures in… Organized by Alanna Medearis | Type: adult, workshop

Project Wild/Aqutic Workshop

May 18, 2013 from 9am to 4pm – Irvine Nature Center Project Wild and WILD Aquatic are wildlife focused conservation education programs for K-12 educators and their students. Project WILD activities can be used to teach basic skills in science, social… Organized by Beth Lacey Gill | Type: adult, education

Nature Preschool Conference

June 7, 2013 to June 8, 2013 – Irvine Nature Center Join us for our 2nd annual Nature Preschool Conference! Discuss the latest trends in nature based education, network with other child care professionals and organizations, and learn from the best. Te… Organized by Beth Lacey Gill | Type: adult, education

Neighborhood Nature: Micro-World at the Nature Center

March 6, 2014 from 9:30am to 11am – Sheldrake Environmental Center The world looks different under a microscope! In the nature center’s microscope lab, you’ll look at the veins in a dragonfly’s wings, a yellowjacket’s stinger, and some living organisms from the pond… Organized by Sheldrake Environmental Center | Type: adult, class

Become a Citizen Scientist!

March 28, 2015 from 10am to 11:30am – Pringle Nature Center Did you know that you can turn your enjoyment of natures on-going changes into useful purpose. You can become a citizen scientist! Participants will learn about several different projects, how they c… Organized by Pringle Nature Center | Type: citizen, science, public, program, middle, school, adult

Ecozone Discovery Room

April 19, 2015 from 1pm to 4pm – Pocono Environmental Education Center $2.00 per person. Climb into a bald eagle's nest, crawl into a bat cave, and dig in a fossil pit. Explore this indoor discovery room and enjoy hands-on exhibits on natural history, sustainability,… Organized by Pocono Environmental Ed Center | Type: children, adult, nature/education

The Literary Language of Nature

January 7, 2016 at 7:30pm to February 11, 2016 at 9pm – Watershed Center, Stony Brook-Millstone Watershed Association While nature outdoors is frosty and dormant, we will warm up with some classic and contemporary nature writing in this new Adult Education course taught by Winifred Hughes Spar, Ph.D, Former English… Organized by Laurie Babicki | Type: adult, education, course

Conserving Energy in Your Home

February 3, 2016 at 7:30pm to March 9, 2016 at 9pm – Watershed Center, Stony Brook-Millstone Watershed Association Are you interested in learning about steps you can take to reduce your use of energy in your home, save money on your electric bills and help the environment? Curious about how solar energy and geoth… Organized by Laurie Babicki | Type: adult, education, course