Lon Morris College offers Leopold Education Project

Area educators, conservation professionals, and youth leaders will have an opportunity to learn about outdoor ethics at an upcoming Leopold Education Project (LEP) workshop being held at Lon Morris College. This workshop is scheduled for 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday, May 10, in room 201 of the Pewitt Building. It will be led by Linda Allen.

The LEP is an interdisciplinary conservation ethics curriculum that strives to instill a land ethic in today's youngsters. This curriculum is based on the essays found in Aldo Leopold's conservation classic A Sand County Almanac, a book that contains month by month descriptions of his relationship with the natural world.

Considered the father of wildlife management and of the wilderness system, Leopold combines skills of a naturalist and ecologically sound understanding of science, with excellent literary prose, so that the Almanac serves as foundation for students to build their own love, respect and admiration for the land.

Educators and conservationists alike will find a variety of hands-on/mindson ways of deepening their students' awareness of the outdoors. In addition to its applications in the classroom and the field, the LEP is interdisciplinary and can be cooperatively integrated into on-going units of math, science, social studies, and language arts. Each workshop participant will receive LEP curriculum materials which include a teacher's guide, and video celebrating Leopold's life, and a copy of the Almanac. Check out the national LEP website at http://www. lep.org.

Further information about the LEP workshop is available by contacting Professor Allen at (903) 589-4036; or Amanda Holloway, Camp and Outreach Department, at (903) 589-4065. Email aholloway@ lonmorris.edu.