Traveling Environmental Festival--Educator Pages
- New Jersey Friend's of Clearwater (NJFC) Traveling Environmental Festival (TEF) is our key educational tool for children of all ages. While modeled after Clearwater's Classroom of the Waves, NJFC has adapted the concept to create the TEF, first presented in 1994.
- TEF brings the hands-on shipboard stations to the classroom and youth organizations at a fraction of the cost of the shipboard experience thereby enabling NJFC to reach a broader audience all year round. It is a self-contained, portable (stored in its own trailer) educational classroom that can be set up in an auditorium, classroom, or outdoor venue.
- TEF and its five stations and timeframe can be tailored to suit the targeted topic, audience, and the available teaching resources.
- Food Web/Chain
- Plankton Station
- Life in the Water
- Watershed Model—EnviroScape
- Water Testing
- While the TEF's target audience are grades 2 through 6, the NJFC educators—working with local curriculum advisors—have tailored the curriculum to accommodate older and younger audiences.
- In the sailing season, we use our sailboat, Adam Hyler, and augment its limited size by presenting at bay and riversides, such as Keyport and Red Bank or anywhere you choose.
Click to Download TEF Brochure
Click to Download TEF Page as PowerPoint Presentation
Click to Download Traveling Environmental Festival Curriculum
SAMPLE LESSON PLAN - Educator Pages
Orientation Session
- To understand the importance of water for survival
- To understand the many types of pollution, especially water pollution
- To introduce the concept of food chain/web
- To introduce the concept of the estuary ecosystem
- To identify the local estuary ecosystem, especially the target Raritan River system
- Entire class is assembled
- Q&A to elicit key concepts
- Establish concept of food chain/web
- Class is divided into three groups and sent to stations 1 and 2
- What is water? Why is it so important?
- What is pollution?
- How does it affect life forms?
- Samples of water pollutants
- Chart with food chain/food net
- Chart of estuary system life
- Maps of Monmouth County and environs with defined drainage/estuary systems
Traveling Environmental Festival (TEF)--Educator Pages
For more information on bringing the TEF into your School, Scout Troop, or Organization, please contact:
Ed Dlugosz - edlugosz@comcast.net
George Moffatt - gmoffattgt@aol.com
Please look at our brochures, PowerPoint presentation, lesson plans, or take an exciting, virtual tour at our eTEF link (Broadband service required). While our standard TEF is target for 2nd through 6th grades, all lessons can be tailored for your organization for grades 2-12.
Our eTEF, which closely mimics our live TEF, uses the music of our musical Friends of Clearwater--Pete Seeger, Bob Killian, Dan Einbender, Tom Chapin, Magpie, Rick Nestler and many others--to enhance and enrich the experience. The eTEF uses the music of these artists with their express permision and are documented in the document that can be found at the following link: Credits and Lyrics
[Note: You may need a downloadable application to display the Flash animation programming used in eTEF. A free trial version can be downloaded from the following link: Macromedia Flash Application
It is an Adobe product and is almost a necessity for any new website viewing. It is safe and from a reputable website.]
TEF Outreach History--Educator Pages
| School | 13,000 Children |
| Children's Psychiatric Center CPC) High Point Elementary School | Morganville |
| Saint Dorothea's Harbor School | Eatontown |
| Bradley Beach Elementary School | Bradley Beach |
| Bangs Ave School | Asbury Park |
| Bradley School | Asbury Park |
| Neptune City Elementary | Neptune |
| Union Beach Memorial School | Union Beach |
| Long Branch Elementary School | Long Branch |
| Highlands Elementary | Highlands |
| New School Charter School | Marlboro |
| Cove Street School | Hazlet |
| Union Ave Middle School | Hazlet |
| Cleveland Elementary School | Englewood |
| Woodmere Elementary School | Eatontown |
| Meadowbrook Elementary School | Eatontown |
| Maple Place Elementary School | Oceanport |
| Wolf Hill Middle School | Oceanport |
| Manasquan Elementary School | Manasquan |
| Atlantic Highlands Elementary School | Atlantic Highlands |
| Conover Rd School | Colts Neck |
| Elberon & Lena Conrow Schools | Long Branch |
| Spruce Street School | Lakewood |
| Lincroft School | Middletown |
| Extracurricular & Youth Groups 10,000 Children | |
| R-FH HS EnviroPalooza | Rumson |
| Boy/Girl Scout Jamboree | Eatontown |
| Girl Scout Enviro Extravaganza | Camp Sacajawea |
| Atlantic Highlands Earth Day | Atlantic Highlands |
| Brookdale CC Justice Day | Lincroft, Middletown |
| Father Time Environmental Expo | Keansburg |
| Ocean Fun Day Marine Sciences Consortium | Sandy Hook |
| Unity Church by the Shore | Neptune |
| Academy of Allied Health & Sciences Environmental Day | Neptune |
| Wall HS Environmental Day | Wall Township |
| Festivals | 650,000 People |
| Annual Clearwater Festival '94-'00 | Sandy Hook |
| Annual Clearwater Festival '01-'07 | Asbury Park |
| Annual Clearwater Revival '94-'07 | Croton Point, NY |
TEF's Resounding Success
TEF Partnering with College Students and Staff
By George Moffat
We recently had a Traveling Environmental Festival (TEF) at the Spruce Street School in Lakewood that was a resounding success. We had two Brookdale Community College (BCC) students as instructors and they did a fine job.
We were located in the science classroom, and the science teacher, who was in and out all day, said he was getting terrific feedback from the teachers. He said one teacher said the program was "superb."
Then both the principal and vice principal approached me separately in the hallway to say how happy they both were with the program. We also had a special education class, and the teacher said he was amazed that we could hold their attention for a complete hour. We have been invited back, in addition to being asked back so that their 6th grade classes can take the program. In fact, the 6th grade teacher came into our classroom and said she also was hearing such positive things about the program that she wished her class also had been scheduled that day.
We also got positive feedback from the teachers and principal at Neptune City, but Spruce Street's response was overwhelming. I walked away from Spruce Street with a very positive feeling.
Our TEF has gotten off to a great start, supported by grants from Whole Foods and Wachovia/Lakewood Blue Claws. We also are partnering to present the program with two well-known educational organizations, the Science Field Station of Brookdale Community College and the college's Ocean Institute, both located at Sandy Hook. Field Station Manager Robert Macaluso and Ocean Institute Director Dave Grant are working with us to train science students and staff members to be employed as TEF instructors. Thirteen college students have already received training and Institute staff members will work with us during their off-season months. Two students, Alex Broszeit of Manasquan and Patrick Vansaghi of Howell, successfully inaugurated the program last month at Neptune City's Woodrow Wilson School.
We have scheduled TEF presentations with the Asbury Park and Lakewood School districts for early next year and we are working with other districts as well. Hopefully, the 2009 program will exceed the very successful 2007 and 2008 presentations.
The grants will permit us enrich the TEF program by associating with the academic community, its students, and staff, while also updating equipment, exhibits, and instructor training materials. The grants also will permit us to expand the program's outreach to the community. In addition, the grammar school students and their teachers are very impressed with seeing college students as TEF instructors.
New Jersey Friends of Clearwater,
Oldest Sloop Club of HRSC
presents the
Knock Out Pollution:
Protect Our Watersheds!
Sunset Park, Asbury Park, NJ
Saturday, August 21, 2009
11:00am - 7:00 pm
FREE! ONE DAY ONLY! FREE!
Top Name International & Local Performers!
on Two Stages
Planet Zemo Band
Spook Handy
O'Neill and Martin
| 11:30am | Lauren Pennington |
| 12:15pm | Ken Shane |
| 1:00pm | Oscar Brand |
| 1:45pm | Mimi Cross |
| 2:45pm | Melissa Chill and Rob Dye |
| 3:45pm | Christine Martucci |
| 4:45pm | Quincy Mumford Band |
| 5:45pm | Guy Davis |
Award Winning Children's Acts
Noon Danny Alderman 1:00pm EcoMan 2:00pm Robert Francis, the Dork of Deception
Circle of Song Stage
11:00am Thomas Wesley Stern 12 Noon Mike Meade, Emily Grove 1:00pm Ingrid Heldt, Michael Scolnick 2:00pm Eric & Hillary, Tom Picard 3:00pm Sharleen Leahey, Joe Petraitis 4:00pm Kacie Baker, Carl Croce 5:00pm Spook Handy 6:00pm Circle of Song Finale
Directions to:
Sunset Park, Sunset Ave & Main St, Asbury Park N.J.back to top