Arkansas Envirothon with a picture of a hurricane...
"When you try to change a single thing, you find it hitched to everything else in the universe..."
 
    John Muir

 

Welcome 
Click on the pictures for more information...

Main page link
Main Page

Announcements Link
Announcements

Training Manual
Training Guidelines

 Aquatics link
AQUATIC
SECTION

Forestry link
FORESTRY
SECTION


  Soils link 
SOIL
SECTION

 Wildlife link
WILDLIFE
SECTION


  Special topic link
SPECIAL
TOPIC SECTION


Rules link
The Rules

Comments link
Your Comments

Committee link
Steering
Committee
& Agency
Contacts

 

Arkansas Envirothon Educational Resource Materials


We are in the process of updating these pages for the 2008/9 contest. Please check the announcement page for recent postings.

Dates:

Area Envirothon Contests: The area contests must be held before November 7, 2008
  
West Central Area Envirothon - November 6, Mt. Magazine
  
Central Area Envirothon  - TBA
    Northwest Area Envirothon - TBA

Arkansas Envirothon - November 23-24, 2008 - UCA, Conway.


Team Registration Information Form - Due October 17, 2008

Please note that the one team per school rule at the state contest has been rescinded.

Young minds love a challenge. The idea of matching wits with their peers excites and inspires teenagers.

The Canon Envirothon was established as a competitive, multi-disciplinary, problem-solving, natural resource event for high school students to challenge their environmental knowledge.  The Envirothon program encourages students to pursue environmental knowledge actively. Thousands of high school students have met the challenge about the natural world and their environment. They are wiser and more concerned about their environment because of their education and competition.
 

bulletHistory
bulletConcept
bulletObjectives
bulletHow it works.
bulletHow do I get more information?
bulletFact Sheet
bulletSample Tests, Problems & Oral Score Sheet

Team sponsors and coaches train and test students in five natural resource areas: soils, aquatics, forestry, wildlife, and a current environmental issue such as wetlands management, groundwater, fire, or pesticides.

Envirothon teams, throughout the school year take an in depth look at wildlife, aquatic life, forestry, soils, and current environmental issues. The spirit of competition, which motivates athletes, drives successful businesses, and develops new ideas also motivates young citizens. In competing in the Envirothon, not only do students learn about their state's natural resources, problems and solutions, they also learn about team building, communications, and conservation partnerships.

The payoff for conservation districts, and all participating natural resource agencies or organizations, is a more aware and concerned citizenry in the future. The environment can only benefit from this educational effort. County and state competitors are restricted to students in grades 9-12. However, there is nothing in the by-laws that prevents school districts from establishing an environmental contests for all grade levels as training for the senior high competitions.

Each conservation area (there are 7 in the state) may send up to 3 teams of five students to the Arkansas Envirothon competition, for a total of 21 competing teams. As needed, the districts set up a local, area-level competition to decide which 3 teams advance to the state level. The state competition is generally held in mid-April of each year. Students challenge their knowledge in a problem-solving competition that entails “hands on” involvement with natural resource information. The state competition is held over a period of two days. In addition to 5 written, field-station tests, which cover the 5 study areas, they must give an oral presentation, as a team, where they form possible solutions to a realistic environmental problem dealing with the current issue.

The overall winner of the state competition advances to the Canon Envirothon, which is hosted by a different state or province each year.

This is the first Envirothon online training manual for both students and coaches.  Training Guidelines covers what you are expected to know at the International Canon Envirothon competition.  The different sections contain the study materials.  If you have any suggestions or comments, please click on the Your Comment section below to let us know.

Make sure that you check out the Announcements page for the most recent Arkansas Envirothon News. 


The Envirothon Program is offered and operated on a nondiscriminatory basis without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, sex, age, marital status, or physical/mental challenges.

For additional information about the Envirothon Program in Arkansas, contact:         

J. Sidney Lowrance
P.O. Box 161
1169 Windsor Hills Road
Marshall, Arkansas 72650
Home 870-448-3522
Cell 870-504-0357
lowrancefarms@windstream.net

The Envirothon Program is offered and operated on a nondiscriminatory basis without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, sex, age, marital status, or physical/mental challenges.

You are visitor Hit Counter!