Outstanding Educator
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Ellen Reynolds is the executive director of the nonprofit Beagle Ridge Environmental Education Center in Wytheville, Virginia, and provides educational programs to three counties.