eeStories: Nicole Brown is a non-formal educator who completed KACEE’s Project Learning Tree eeMiniCourse this year. When asked about her experience with environmental education, she shared this with us:
“Environmental education has been a core part of my life for six years now. Continuing to learn new ways to inspire curiosity and passion of the natural world is always exciting. This passion is, to me, what truly drives environmental education. You’ll never learn to love or care for something if you don’t first understand it.
So helping people explore and find a niche to get excited about is paramount.
This year I leaned hard into pollinator conservation in my teachings and taught thousands why some of smallest neighbors are so important and how best to help them.
Getting kids excited about bugs is usually easy, but adults can be harder due to long-held fear around 'creepy crawlies'. My favorite moments included watching people with those fears become slowly interested in what I was teaching.
From bug-netting to actively petting live male (and therefore stinger-less) bumblebees these small moments will hopefully lead to a shift in thinking that will lead to conservation instead of elimination.”
Thank you, Nicole, for sharing your eeStory with us!
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