Free Workshop on Using Art to Bring Nature, Valley's Landscape into School Projects

MID-HUDSON VALLEY—Teaching the Hudson Valley, Mill Street Loft and Scenic Hudson invite classroom teachers and education majors to a professional development workshop using art to incorporate the outdoors and Hudson Valley landscape in curriculums for science, English language arts, social studies and math.

The workshop will be led by teachers and experts in environmental education, art and other academic disciplines and will offer specific sessions for elementary, middle and high school levels. Grant funding from the Shelby Cullom Davis Charitable Fund enables this professional training to be offered at no cost to teachers as well as preservice education majors. Certificates of attendance will be available.

The workshop will be held Saturday, Sept. 17, from 9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m., at Scenic Hudson's Long Dock Park and River Center in Beacon, N.Y. The park and River Center are a short walk from the Metro-North train station.

For more information and to RSVP: info@teachingthehudsonvalley.org, 845 229 9116, ext. 2035.

Scenic Hudson works to protect and restore the Hudson River and its majestic landscape as an irreplaceable national treasure and a vital resource for residents and visitors. A crusader for the valley since 1963, we are credited with saving fabled Storm King Mountain from a destructive industrial project and launching the modern grass-roots environmental movement. Today with more than 25,000 ardent supporters, we are the largest environmental group focused on the Hudson River Valley. Our team of experts combines land acquisition, support for agriculture, citizen-based advocacy and sophisticated planning tools to create environmentally healthy communities, champion smart economic growth, open up riverfronts to the public and preserve the valley's inspiring beauty and natural resources. To date Scenic Hudson has created or enhanced more than 50 parks, preserves and historic sites up and down the Hudson River and conserved more than 30,000 acres.

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