Paige Rans, an educator for an afterschool program at Piedmont Wildlife Center and a horticulture teacher at Alamance Community College, recently completed her NC Environmental Education Certification.
When asked about her favorite part of the program, she says
it was the workshops. “This was such a fantastic experience all around! I think the best part was
going to all the different workshops at different places across the state and
even out of the country!”
Paige says the certification experience that stood out to her
was the Project Learning Tree Explore Your Environment K-8 Workshop at the
Museum of Life and Science in Durham. “It's what really drew me in and made me
want to learn more and complete this program.”
For her community partnership project, Paige created a
reference book for Piedmont Wildlife Center’s counselors. “The resource contains
around 26 different environmental education lessons to help teach the campers.
The lessons are divided by age and contain all the materials that one would
need to complete the lesson. This affects the community by providing a
"go-to" for teaching environmental education to young minds with the
hopes of instilling the importance of environmental education to adulthood.”
Paige says the program helped her find new resources. “I put
a lot of tools in my toolbox! It created the need for hands-on projects when
teaching and showed how those types of lessons are the ones that students
remember.”
She also says that education is the key to solving many
environmental issues. “We need to make people aware of environmental issues, so
they understand the need for change.”
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