The South Carolina Botanical Garden's Creative Awareness Program invites educators to attend this inspiring Earth-based workshop.   Susan Fowler of Harmony by Hand will share songs, sign language and stories about the Earth that will help you bring environmental education alive in your classroom or educational setting .  Susan brings an important message of hope and harmony for this planet Earth.

Come celebrate Earth Day by engaging in a day of creativity and learning that will help you share with children environmental awareness, sensitivity, creativity and responsibility.  Foster an appreciation for the people and cultures that make up our planet by helping your students create a relationship with the Earth that we share.

Participants in this four-hour workshop will receive materials and supplies to support the stories, games and songs Susan will share.  This workshop is appropriate for teachers, environmental educators, activity coordinators, pre-school staff  or anyone who works with youth.  For more information or to register contact Amy Craddock, HTR, Sprouting Wings Coordinator at 864-656-7340 or acraddo@clemson.edu  The cost for this workshop is $35 if pre-registered~ space is limited so register now!
 

Harmony by Hand by Susan E. Fowler.....

Susan is an environmental artist and educator who uses music, sign language, stories and sketches to share about the EARTH.  She has presented over 1500 programs in twenty states during the past ten years.  Highlights include the "Hoosier Woods" music festival in southern Indiana,  the summer library series in Oklahoma, school residencies from Ohio to Iowa, adult seminars in Door Couny Wisconsin and the keynote speaker for the International Reception at the 1999 North American Association for Environmental Education (NAAEE) in Cincinatti, Ohio.  She has been an active facilitator in Project Learning Tree, Project WILD and Project WET.

A native of Indiana, Susan attended Purdue University where she received a B.S. and a M.S. in Agronomy-crops and soils.  Her career includes having been an Earth Science teacher, a horticulturist for a botanical garden, a naturalist at a wetlands/wastewater project and the education coordinator for The Land & The Living Seas, EPCOT Center, Walt Disney World.

The South Carolina Botanical Garden Staff met Susan in February 2000 at the Treemont Environmental Institute's weekend event "Environmental Education and the Arts".   We feel that Susan shares our mission of sharing nature and culture through awareness.