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Jane Thornes
Jane Thornes teaches fourth grade at Heyburn Elementary School in St. Maries, Idaho, and uses her own working forest as an outdoor classroom.
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Brenda Smith
Brenda Smith teaches fourth grade at Oil City Elementary Magnet School, Oil City, and helped her school become one of Louisiana’s four PLT-certified schools.
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Barbara Cook
Barbara Cook teaches science, reading, and computers to grades 7-8 at Greenfield Middle School in Greenfield, Ohio. She also facilitates environmental education presentations.
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Anne Bohnet
Anne Bohnet directs the Science and Technology Enrichment Program for grades 3-12 at the Ruth Patrick Science Education Center in Aiken, South Carolina.
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Robin Nelson
Robin Nelson is an environmental education coordinator for the Alabama Department of Education in Montgomery. She developed a secondary curriculum called Water Sourcebook.
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Barbara Patterson
Barbara Patterson is an instructor at Front Range Community College in Fort Collins, Colorado, where she teaches about forestry, wildlife, and natural resources using PLT.
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Florie Babcock
Florie Babcock is a professor of early childhood education at Florida Southern College in Lakeland, where her students adapt PLT lessons for use with preschoolers.
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Judy Mansfield
Judy Mansfield teaches second grade at Mount Harmony Elementary School, Owings, Maryland. She uses books about local ecology and involves her students in environmental projects.
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Micheline Hickenbotham
Micheline Hickenbotham is an assistant professor of education at Black Hills State University, Spearfish, South Dakota. She uses PLT to teach Science and Math Methods.
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Auburn Carpenter
Auburn Carpenter is the education projects manager at Texas State Aquarium in Corpus Christi, where she uses PLT in a vidoconferencing series to reach students.