Extreme Learning for Teachers - April
Dates: | April 18, 2019 |
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Meets: | Th from 5:30 PM to 8:30 PM (optional MOR Tour 4:15 - 5 p.m) |
Location: | Museum of the Rockies |
Cost: | $35.00 |
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The Museum of the Rockies, Extreme History Project, and Yellowstone Writing Project have partnered to offer educators a unique opportunity to earn 3 OPI renewal units. Participants will be encouraged to attend an optional self-guided tour of the museum before registration. Our PIR sessions start at 5:30 in the Redstart classroom (basement of the Museum of the Rockies). We then attend the Extreme History Project lecture at 6:00pm in Hager Auditorium and return to the Redstart classroom for light refreshments, a writing prompt, and discussion over the lecture.
April's lecture is Cry to Heaven: Golden Eagles and Thunderbirds in the Bighorn Basin presented by Bonnie Lawrence Smith
"Here in the Plains Basin of North America, we find some of the most exceptional rock art in the Americas," says Bonnie Lawrence-Smith, curatorial assistant of the Draper Natural History Museum at the Buffalo Bill Center of the West. She explains that - like populations everywhere - the early peoples of the Bighorn Basin wove stories as explanations for the natural world around them. This presentation focuses on explanations of raptors and birds of prey consistently depicted in rock art and found in several sites on both public and private lands. Bonnie proposes there is a connection "between ancient eagle (Aquila crysataetos) nests, Native American eagle traps, and thunderbird representations at these sites.
April's lecture is Cry to Heaven: Golden Eagles and Thunderbirds in the Bighorn Basin presented by Bonnie Lawrence Smith
"Here in the Plains Basin of North America, we find some of the most exceptional rock art in the Americas," says Bonnie Lawrence-Smith, curatorial assistant of the Draper Natural History Museum at the Buffalo Bill Center of the West. She explains that - like populations everywhere - the early peoples of the Bighorn Basin wove stories as explanations for the natural world around them. This presentation focuses on explanations of raptors and birds of prey consistently depicted in rock art and found in several sites on both public and private lands. Bonnie proposes there is a connection "between ancient eagle (Aquila crysataetos) nests, Native American eagle traps, and thunderbird representations at these sites.
Fee: | $35.00 |
Museum of the Rockies
600 W Kagy Blvd, Bozeman, MT 59717Emily Nelson
Emily (Hoogestraat) Nelson. After graduating from the University of Iowa in 2005, I packed my car and headed West for my first teaching gig. For the next two years I taught 8th-12th grade English in Twin Bridges and joined Belgrade High School’s English department in 2007. I teach a wide variety of students and English classes at BHS and also serve as their assistant teacher librarian.I have always identified myself as a writer and deep thinker and am eternally grateful to the teachers who empowered me to build these self-perceptions. Campy in my approach and ever the rhetor, I have made it my life’s work to help my students experience the joy and power strong literacy and critical thinking skills can yield, much like my teachers did for me.
Most importantly, though, I’m a mom. My son Franklin and husband Matt are the most precious people in my life. We love adventuring, spending time in the mountains, and playing in water of all sorts.
Since attending the 2011 Summer Institute, The Yellowstone Writing Project has been vital to my development as a writer, teacher, and human. Thus, it is a privilege to serve on their leadership team as a liaison for our Museum of the Rockies partnership, a collaborator in our partnership with the Ivan Doig archive team at Montana State University’s library, and a counselor at our annual youth writing camp.
Participants will receive 3 OPI Renewal Units