Calendar

Jun
8
Mon
Family Nature Challenge
Jun 8 – Jun 26 all-day
Family Nature Challenge

Join the CELF’s Houston Educator team for a 3-week-long Family Nature Challenge! You’ll receive a weekly challenge to tackle as a family each Monday, accompanied by a mini-lesson and CELF challenge guide. End each week with a live Zoom Show-and-Tell.

Jun
10
Wed
Teacher Workshop
Jun 10 @ 9:00 am – 12:00 pm
Teacher Workshop

Virtual Professional Development: How to Create a Community-Based Learning Experience for Students in Houston

Teachers, learn what’s outside your window, and how you can use it to engage kids in any subject. Gain an understanding of what’s affecting Houston’s prairies, forests and marshes. Discover resources to differentiate instruction for all learners, including tech options. Connect with local informal educators that are ready to help you.

Sign up in Eventbrite. Limited to first 20 participants. Three hours CPE and G/T credit available, with an option for six hours, through the Texas Association for Environmental Education.

Children’s Nature Classes @ Armand Bayou Nature Center
Jun 10 @ 9:30 am – 11:30 am

Looking for a place to get your children outdoors? ABNC’s EcoClasses will allow your child to explore, discover and observe (STEM). Join them for some great nature experiences! Check out their website at abnc.org for details or call 713-274-2668 to reserve your spot.

EcoTots are for children 18-36 months with an adult every Friday.
EcoKids are for children ages 3-6 every Wednesday and Friday.
EcoSchoolers are for homeschool children ages 7-10 every Wednesday and Friday.    EcoAdventurers are for children ages 11-14 every Wednesday.

Please bring a Snack, Refillable Water Bottle, mask, closed toe shoes and dress for the weather.

Jun
11
Thu
Teacher Workshop
Jun 11 @ 9:00 am – 12:00 pm
Teacher Workshop

Virtual Professional Development: How to Create a Community-Based Learning Experience for Students in Houston

Teachers, learn what’s outside your window, and how you can use it to engage kids in any subject. Gain an understanding of what’s affecting Houston’s prairies, forests and marshes. Discover resources to differentiate instruction for all learners, including tech options. Connect with local informal educators that are ready to help you.

Workshop limited to first 20 participants. Three hours CPE and G/T credit available, with an option for six hours, through the Texas Association for Environmental Education.

Jun
12
Fri
Children’s Nature Classes @ Armand Bayou Nature Center
Jun 12 @ 9:30 am – 11:30 am

Looking for a place to get your children outdoors? ABNC’s EcoClasses will allow your child to explore, discover and observe (STEM). Join them for some great nature experiences! Check out their website at abnc.org for details or call 713-274-2668 to reserve your spot.

EcoTots are for children 18-36 months with an adult every Friday.
EcoKids are for children ages 3-6 every Wednesday and Friday.
EcoSchoolers are for homeschool children ages 7-10 every Wednesday and Friday.    EcoAdventurers are for children ages 11-14 every Wednesday.

Please bring a Snack, Refillable Water Bottle, mask, closed toe shoes and dress for the weather.

Environmental Educators Exchange Virtual Meet Up (Morning)
Jun 12 @ 10:00 am – 10:30 am
Environmental Educators Exchange Virtual Meet Up (Morning)

“STORIES FROM A PANDEMIC: USING THE STORYCORPS APP TO RECORD HISTORY” with Sarah Coles of Texas Children in Nature.

Details and registration on this Google Form.

Format: 10 minute presentation on local topic, followed by 15 minutes of Q&A and community-building time. The sessions are offered at two times on the same day (10 a.m. and 3 p.m.) to ensure smaller groups and more opportunity to connect with fellow environmental educators in Houston.

Environmental Educators Exchange Virtual Meet Up (Afternoon)
Jun 12 @ 3:00 pm – 3:30 pm
Environmental Educators Exchange Virtual Meet Up (Afternoon)

“STORIES FROM A PANDEMIC: USING THE STORYCORPS APP TO RECORD HISTORY” with Sarah Coles of Texas Children in Nature.

Details and registration on this Google Form.

Format: 10 minute presentation on local topic, followed by 15 minutes of Q&A and community-building time. The sessions are offered at two times on the same day (10 a.m. and 3 p.m.) to ensure smaller groups and more opportunity to connect with fellow environmental educators in Houston.

The Living Coast: Postponed @ MATCH Theater
Jun 12 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
The Living Coast: Postponed @ MATCH Theater | Houston | Texas | United States

The Living Coast performance combines original music, live narration, and cinematic images of the Texas gulf coast.  Surfers and sailors, shrimpers and oilmen, poets and scientists all share their stories about this complicated region of serene beauty, vast industry, and incredible contradictions.  Supported by a grant from the National Endowment of the Arts, the concert will tour throughout Texas and the midwest in 2020.

The Living Coast film was produced by cinematographer Anlo Sepulveda and drone pilot Reagan Jobe.  Climate scientists Wendy Gordon and Megan O’Connell perform on stage with Montopolis as well as providing educational outreach before and after the concerts.

Jun
13
Sat
Second Saturday Bird Walks @ Houston Arboretum & Nature Center
Jun 13 @ 8:00 am – 10:00 am

Free to attend, donations appreciated. Work on your bird watching skills while helping the Arboretum monitor bird populations on a fun, relaxed morning walk. Join the Houston Arboretum and Nature Center on the second Saturday of each month at the front door of the building for a two-hour bird walk led by Kelsey Low and Theo Ostler, a resident bird enthusiast. We welcome all levels of bird watching skill and all ages (as long as you’re quiet) – but no dogs, please! If you have binoculars of your own, please bring them. We do have some binoculars available to borrow. For more events with the Houston Arboretum & Nature Center, visit their Events Calendar!

 

Jun
17
Wed
Children’s Nature Classes @ Armand Bayou Nature Center
Jun 17 @ 9:30 am – 11:30 am

Looking for a place to get your children outdoors? ABNC’s EcoClasses will allow your child to explore, discover and observe (STEM). Join them for some great nature experiences! Check out their website at abnc.org for details or call 713-274-2668 to reserve your spot.

EcoTots are for children 18-36 months with an adult every Friday.
EcoKids are for children ages 3-6 every Wednesday and Friday.
EcoSchoolers are for homeschool children ages 7-10 every Wednesday and Friday.    EcoAdventurers are for children ages 11-14 every Wednesday.

Please bring a Snack, Refillable Water Bottle, mask, closed toe shoes and dress for the weather.