ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION Guide

Pine Mountain Settlement School
Series 22: ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION
Series 23: E. J. CARR PLANT CENTER
Environmental Education Guide
1972 to Present

ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION (EE) Guide 1972 - Present

TAGS: Environmental Education Guide 1972 to present, E. J. Carr Plant Center, Ellwood J. Carr Botanical Collection, Environmental Education events, Environmental Education Program, Environmental Education Workers at PMSS, other EE collections

ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION Guide
1972 to present

ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION (EE) GUIDE 1972 TO PRESENT provides a map to the diverse programs taught over the years at Pine Mountain Settlement School and the current programs that continue to be available at the School in Harlan County, Kentucky.

In 2011 James Gleick wrote a book entitled Chaos: Making a New Science. It was an alternate window into the future of the planet that brought some to pull the curtains shut and others to charge out the doors to see for themselves a world changing around them.

Publisher’s Weekly said of Gleick’s book:

For centuries, scientific thought was focused on bringing order to the natural world. But even as relativity and quantum mechanics undermined that rigid certainty in the first half of the twentieth century, the scientific community clung to the idea that any system, no matter how complex, could be reduced to a simple pattern. In the 1960s, a small group of radical thinkers began to take that notion apart, placing new importance on the tiny experimental irregularities that scientists had long learned to ignore. Minuscule differences in data, they said, would eventually produce massive ones—and complex systems like the weather, economics, and human behavior suddenly became clearer and more beautiful than they had ever been before.

The natural world can be beautiful, but it can also be tragic. We are all joined in the journey to adore the beauty, discover the irregularities, and to mitigate if possible weather, economics, and human behavior that threaten the way to a “beautiful’ world.

: Environmental Education. Ben Begley shows a frog to reading camp students. [Ben-teaching-reading-camp-08-scaled.jpg]

: Environmental Education. Western Elementary students study the forest floor. [Western-Elementary-022-scaled.jpg]

: Environmental Education. Ben Begley and students on boulders in a stream. [ben-on-rocks.jpg]

ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION: Past Events (All Ages)

ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION 1974 The Green Book

BLACK MOUNTAIN WILDFLOWER WEEKEND
FALL ARTS & COLOR WEEKEND
LUCY BRAUN NATURALIST WEEKEND
PINE MOUNTAIN WILDFLOWER WEEKEND

ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION: Programs

ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION The Green Book 1974 (Early Manual for EE Program)

Topical Guides:
ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION Birds
ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION Early Settlers
ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION Geology
ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION Native Americans
ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION Plants
ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION Water Ecology

ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION 1982-83 Operations
ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION 1982 Personnel Chart
ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION 1982-84 Programming

ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION: Workers at PMSS

ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION Staff 1972 to Present

AFTON GARRISON (EE Teacher )

ELLEN (Mattie) AYERS HAYES (EE Teacher 1986)

BEN BEGLEYBiography (EE Teacher, Director 1986-2014)

PAT BEGLEY Biography (EE Teacher 1986-2014)

MATTHEW BOGGS Biography (EE Teacher 1987-1990)

CLELLA SERGENT COOK (EE Teacher 1987)

SCOTT MATTHIES EE Narrative in which he describes his and Anne Sicilian’s time at Pine Mountain as Environmental Education staff in 1979-1981.

KEITH REINHARDT (EE Teacher 1994-1998, Asst. EE Director 2001-2002)

MARY ROGERS Biography (EE Teacher & Coordinator 1971-1986 intermittently)
(See THE PINE MOUNTAIN STORY – CH. V Mary Rogers)

NANCY SATHER (EE Teacher 1973, 1974) See – NANCY SATHER Correspondence Educational Planning 1969

DAVID SIEGENTHALER Biography – Program Coordinator of the PMSS Environmental Education Program, 1980-1981.

LARRY E. SMITH Author of a 14-page narrative, “My Pine Mountain Story,”
in which he describes his experiences as an Environmental Education teacher, 1992-1995.

CAROL URQUHART (EE Acting Director 1983-1984)

PETER WESTOVER Biographical information for Peter Westover, coordinator of PMSS’s Environmental Education Program, 1971-1974.

ALSO SEE:

ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION Staff 1972 – present

LOREN W. KRAMER First Earth Day 1972 at Pine Mountain Settlement
Mary Rogers EE Planning 1972 forward and Program Notes
MARY ROGERS Uncle William’s Mandate to Pine Mountain 1969
NANCY SATHER Correspondence Educational Planning 1969
PETER WESTOVER Staff/BOT
PAUL HAYES Remarks on EE Programming & 75th Anniversary of PMSS 1988

ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION: Photographs

PAUL LYNN Photograph Album

027 PHOTOGRAPHS V ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION Classes and Trails (Selected)
028 PHOTOGRAPHS V ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION Geology and Fossils (Selected)
029 PHOTOGRAPHS V ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION Indians and Settlers (Selected)
030 PHOTOGRAPHS V ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION Miscellaneous
031 PHOTOGRAPHS V ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION Water
032 PHOTOGRAPHS V ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION Workshops
033 PHOTOGRAPHS V ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION People and Groups

OTHER COLLECTIONS

E. J. CARR PLANT CENTER Guide
E. J. CARR About the Donor (Biography)
E. J. CARR PLANT CENTER 1984 Biography Slides
E. J. CARR PLANT CENTER Book Collection
E. J. CARR PLANT CENTER Edible Plant Workshop Narrative
E. J. CARR PLANT CENTER Flora Checklist
E. J. CARR PLANT CENTER Guide to Edible Plants
E. J. CARR PLANT CENTER Guide to Medicinal Plants
E. J. CARR PLANT CENTER Herbary of Carr
E. J. CARR PLANT CENTER Inventory Project
E. J. CARR PLANT CENTER Slides Edible Plant Workshop
E. J. CARR PLANT CENTER Traditional Plant Medicines
E. J. CARR PLANT CENTER Weed Patch Cookery (PASSWORD PROTECTED)

FRED BURKHARD Indian Artifact Collection

WILLIAM HAYES Native American Collection

ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION: Early and Related EE Programming

The following are links to pages that provide a broad picture of the history of Environmental Education at the School, as well as an opportunity for visitors to enrich their visits through their own EE interests.

BIBLIOGRAPHY Environmental Education and Land Use
ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION at PMSS Today
MARY ROGERS EE Planning and Program Notes
EE Brochure 1
EE Brochure 2
EE The Green Book 1974 (Early Manual for EE Program)
EE Indians and Settlers 029 V Photographs
EE Lesson Plans and Supplementary Information 1973-1995
EE Pine Mountain Bird CheckList
EE Student Groups at PMSS
EE Warblers

PARTICIPATING INSTITUTIONS (partial list)

EE Coleridge School
EE St. Francis School

See Also:
EMMA LUCY BRAUN – Biography
ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION Staff 1972 to Present
LAND USE
LUCY BRAUN WORKSHOP
MARY ROGERS – Biography

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E. J. CARR PLANT CENTER Guide
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