KABT BioBlog

Community Issues Forum
No Child Left Inside: How Can We Help Connect Children with Nature?
Tuesday, June 2, 2009
7 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.
Central Resource Library

Is there such a thing as “nature-deficit disorder?” Do children have a biological need to be exposed to the natural world? Whose responsibility is it to make sure that kids get a chance [...]

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This year’s Spring field trip will be on Saturday, June 6, at Cheyenne Bottoms Wildlife Area.
From Fort Hays Univeristy Wetlands Education Center Website
We will be meeting at 10am at the Kansas Wetlands Education Center at the Bottoms.  We have reserved a classroom there, and are asking participants to bring any materials we can use to [...]

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A Collaborative Learning Space for Science
www.nature.com/scitable
As I paged my way through the most recent issue of Nature, I was intrigued by a Nature advertisement claiming “There’s new life in science education…  Online.”  A few minutes later, I navigated to the website advertised.  Here is what I found after a few minutes of surfing.

As noted at this new Nature website, [...]

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