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Classic - Our Place: Place Based Education
A Greener Indiana
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    • Classic - Our Place: Place Based Education Mix Photo
      The Hoosier Environmental Council administers a program that works with school throughout the state called the Our Place Program.
    • Classic - Our Place: Place Based Education Mix Photo
      The Our Place Program unites schools and environmental resources together to community organize and educate in a place based setting.
    • Classic - Our Place: Place Based Education Mix Photo
      Place based education is when you take the studies out of the classrooms and onto the streets. Becoming a stakeholder in nature & community.
    • Classic - Our Place: Place Based Education Mix Photo
      In this case the classroom to the riverbanks of the St. Joe, St. Marys, and Maumee Rivers on a Kayak/Canoe.
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      The St. Joe, St. Marys. and Maumee Rivers are environmentally impaired due to nutrients, E. Coli, Mercury, and PCB's.
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      We went over the causes, affects, solutions, heritage, history, and groups related to their local water quality issues and activities.
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      People like Matt Jones from ACPWQ came out to help and acted as our river guide and an educator for the class during this field day.
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      Derek Reuter from A Greener Indiana is their Educational/Environmental Resource for the Our Place Program and helped coordinate the day.
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      We were defiantly getting into the swing of things!
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      Utttt ooohhhhhh
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      As we were on Stevie's Island (named after Matt Jones brother..R.I.P) we took a lunch, swing, & had a visitor come out to teach on wetla
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      Betsy "Broccoli" Yankowiak; Executive Director of the Little River Wetlands Project saying she's got this, no prob!
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      WWWEEEEeeeEEEE! There she goes!
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      No shirt, no shoes, no service out in the middle of a river anyways.
    • Classic - Our Place: Place Based Education Mix Photo
      Ha! I wanted to jump in sooo bad! But I was working and remembered the river conditions.... sigh.
    • Classic - Our Place: Place Based Education Mix Photo
      Kimberly Maud a volunteer with A Greener Indiana showing us how it is done!
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