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Environmental Literacy
For Terry McAuliffe By Mary Van Dyke
July 2015
We read
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Read the landscape
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Energy, climate Rock, water, sky
Link A to B Lifelines Between this and that
Drawn in the sand
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Or snow
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Legible or not Mary Van Dyke
We glimpse signs Allan D’Arcangelo Smithsonian American Art Museum
Design is business Mary Van Dyke
Good design is good business
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The schoolyard Maple unwatered Sapsucker drinks Rings the tree Sweet sap
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The schoolyard Maple unwatered Sapsucker drinks Rings the tree Sweet sap
Sweet sap Aphid food Ladybugs eat Lay eggs Larvae feast
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The tree dies Stressed Lifecycles Reinvest
Read Decode Tell and sell Stories
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Listen to the stones Run, climb, touch to Integrate art and science
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Read Understand Speak about place and time This is the challenge
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The Governor’s Environmental Literacy Challenge
• Enable teachers to “improve their ability to use the environment as a context for learning in and out of the classroom”
• Enhance school-‐wide sustainability efforts within the SOL framework
Governor and Mrs McAuliffe at Pocahontas State Park Planting Garden for Monarch Butterflies, April 22 2015
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• Trained as architect • Lives in Virginia • Master Naturalist • Visiting Horticulturalist at
Jamestown School in Arlington • Blogs at Green STEM Learning
In all things of Nature there is something marvelous
-‐ Aristotle Lloyd Wolf
Photo Credits Blue Ridge Horses, Mary Van Dyke Sand and Sky, Mary Van Dyke Snow Heart, Mary Van Dyke Tuckahoe School Cabin Sign, Mary Van Dyke US Highway 1, Allan D’Arcangelo Smithsonian American Art Museum Market Seller, Mary Van Dyke Sapsucker Maple Tree, Arlington Traditional School, Mary Van Dyke Listening to Stonehenge, Mary Van Dyke Jamestown School teacher and student, Mary Van Dyke Governor and Mrs McAuliffe, Earth Day April 22 2015, Michaele White, Governor’s Office Mary Van Dyke, Volunteer Arlington, Lloyd Wolf Listening in the Landscape, Mary Van Dyke
