Statewide Poster And Poetry/Prose Exhibit:

cnredd · #1 (**permalink**) 12-28-2007, 03:17 AM

Statewide Poster And Poetry/Prose Exhibit:

"Global Warming – What Can We Do?"

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Dear Fifth/Sixth Grade Educators,

We invite your students to participate in the annual Environmental Pathways statewide poster and poetry/prose exhibit. The theme of the 2008 event will be “Global Warming – What Can We Do?” focusing on the importance of clean air and protecting our environment.

We ask that you use our educational packet, “Environmental Pathways - Youth Investigating Pollution Issues in Illinois,” in your classroom during the month of January. Following this year's theme, emphasis will be on air pollution issues and global warming.

We believe that the creation of posters and written works gives your students an opportunity to express and share, on a deeper and more personal level, what they have learned. The student exhibit also draws attention to environmental issues.

We recommend that you have a school exhibit of your students' works. Ask students and faculty to vote for their favorite entries. Then send the Illinois EPA the top four posters and top four poetry/prose entries (representing the school) for inclusion in the statewide exhibit.

Students whose works have been chosen for the exhibit, together with their parents and teachers, will be invited to an awards reception in Springfield. The finalists will receive certificates and ribbons. Twelve students (six in each category) will be given special recognition and will each receive a $50 savings bond and an environmental reference book for his or her school's library. Following the recognition reception, the works will remain on display at the Illinois EPA April 7 through May 5.

The top twelve entries also will be displayed on the Illinois EPA's web site providing additional recognition for the winning entries as well as promoting the program.

Not only is the myth acceptable, but it's now being pushed down the throat of students, who, apparently, don't have time for those unimportant things like math and language...

Kizzume · #2 (**permalink**) 12-28-2007, 05:48 AM

If one believes global warming is a myth, then I guess this article would make that person angry. I look at it as something we're all going to eventually accept as fact.

cnredd · #3 (**permalink**) 12-28-2007, 12:13 PM

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Originally Posted by Kizzume

If one believes global warming is a myth, then I guess this article would make that person angry. I look at it as something we're all going to eventually accept as fact.

As long as certain people cut off the debate and only put forth their passion play, this is probably true...

crazyflamingos · #4 (**permalink**) 12-28-2007, 12:26 PM

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Originally Posted by cnredd

Statewide Poster And Poetry/Prose Exhibit:

"Global Warming – What Can We Do?"

Not only is the myth acceptable, but it's now being pushed down the throat of students, who, apparently, don't have time for those unimportant things like math and language...

I keep wondering where some of you went to school. In my school we covered readin', 'ritten' & 'rithmetic and still had time for history, science, civics, music, art, gym, and a plethora of other subjects.

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