Tips on developing new and creative environmental lesson plans & teaching controversial issues

Dana Haine and Sarah Yelton

On Tuesday, October 28th, please join Dana Haine and Sarah Yelton for an in depth and focused follow-up webinar to their extremely well received presentation in August. Both educators from the UNC Superfund Program Research Translation Core and the UNC Institute for the Environment will share strategies, tips and resources for developing timely and relevant lessons, including those that feature controversial or sensitive environmental issues, such as environmental justice. Participants will consider local environmental issues that can serve as the foundation for lessons designed to effectively engage others around a topic and promote environmental literacy.

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BIOS

Dana Haine, MS, K-12 Science Education Manager for the UNC Institute for the Environment’s Environmental Resource Program, works primarily with K-12 teachers, students and informal educators on topics such as water quality, hazardous waste, climate change, energy and sustainability. She also served on the NC Environmental Education Advisory Council from 2007-2011 and the NC Environmental Literacy Plan Working Group. Prior to joining the ERP, she was a science educator for DESTINY, UNC's Traveling Science Learning Program, and from 1998-2003 she was a science faculty member at Central Piedmont Community College in Charlotte, NC. Dana earned her MS in Biology from Wake Forest University (1998) and received her BS in Biology from Appalachian State University (1995).

Sarah Yelton, MS, Environmental Education Coordinator for the UNC Institute for the Environment’s Environmental Resource Program, engages K-12 teachers, university students and other lay audiences on topics such as environmental health, water quality, hazardous waste, climate change. Before coming to UNC, Sarah managed the PreK-12 Environmental Education Program for the NC Office of Environmental Education and Public Affairs. Sarah earned her MS in Natural Resources - Environmental Education from the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point (2000) and received her BA degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (1996). She is a Certified Environmental Educator and winner of the NC Outstanding Earth Science Educator Award by the NC Geological Survey (2009).