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This page shows events offered by the Great Lakes Stewardship Initiative (GLSI) and each of our six regional hubs as well as events that the GLSI will be participating in, supporting, or that feature a close partner.

Designing Raingardens and Other ‘Working Gardens’ with Youth

Urban Alternatives House 924 Eddy St., Flint, MI, United States

Learn how to incorporate landscape design practices and processes in the classroom. Explore the different types of “working land” projects and how they can be structured to enhance learning while offering students the opportunity to improve the local community and environment through student-led action projects.

An Environmental Justice Framework : Helping Students Understand (in)Equitable Human / Environment Interactions

Urban Alternatives House 924 Eddy St., Flint, MI, United States

This professional development workshop is designed to enhance understanding of the interactions between social and environmental systems in our communities and how to integrate those concepts into the classroom. Explore topics of environmental justice, climate change, and climate justice and apply that understanding toward place-based stewardship education (PBSE) teaching practice.

Teaching in the Outdoors Workshop

Alcona Elementary School Makerspace 181 N Barlow Rd, Lincoln, MI, United States

This workshop will be anchored in methods and lesson modelling from the BEETLES Project. The BEETLES (Better Environmental Education, Teaching, Learning & Expertise Sharing) Project is a student and nature centered collection of passionate science and environmental educators devoted to improving the quality of outdoor science education. Who: Educators, formal classroom teachers and nonformal educators Cost: Free! Lunch […]