2008 Green & Growing
Event Descriptions

The 2008 Green & Growing Field Trip celebrated the advances and the steps toward a greener earth through music, song and dance. Below is a list of the entertainment that was offered. We're already planning 2009, so stay tuned for more details.

Click on the names below to go to a group's website and more information!

• Kullizion
Kullizion, a talented group of Carlisle, PA High School freshman, makes a return visit this year to GGAF. The group formed in the spring of 2006, performing a special piece—“Funky Buckets”—on five gallon buckets and metal pails in their school’s spring concert. Kullizion has gained special attention from top Pennsylvania politicians, playing for Governor Ed Rendell’s Inauguration Celebration in March of 2007 and PA Department of Environmental Protection Secretary McGinty.

• Rik Palieri
How many performers do you know who are as at ease singing tunes by Bluesmen Leadbelly and Son House as they are at telling a folk tale to children before leading them through a traditional Polish folk song and dance? Through his long and varied experiences as a performer, Palieri gracefully segues from original tunes on guitar to old traditional "Americana" folk songs on banjo, to intricate, involved ballads from the mountains of Poland on the rare and exotic Polish bagpipes. Palieri is a performer who can take his audience on a musical jaunt around the world without ever leaving the festival! www.banjo.net

• Jay Smar
Armed with 2 guitars, baritone vocals, claw-hammer banjo, and fiddling, singing, and flat-footin’ (a form of clog-dancing), Jay serves his school audience an "acoustic buffet" of traditional American and original folk, old time mountain music and bluegrass tunes. A native of the Jim Thorpe area, his stories and songs explore the impact of coal mining on the Keystone State, the world's first "gravity" railroad, the invention of the roller coaster and folklore related to other areas. www.jaysmar.com

• World Dance of Lancaster (International Folk Dance) Zita Angelo, a Lancaster-based international folk dance instructor with World Dance of Lancaster, has been involved in IFD for over 30 years and is dedicated to presenting World Dance to as many people as possible, in a relaxed and accessible atmosphere. She enjoys sharing her love of IFD in the belief that it promotes wholesome social interaction, provides intellectual stimulation including appreciation of many cultures and styles of music, and is such an enjoyable way to exercise that one looks forward to participating. No previous dance experience is necessary, just a willingness to learn and have fun! www.worlddancelancaster.com

The activities list is growing for the first annual Green and Growing Field Trip and we wanted to share some of the exciting opportunities awaiting your students!
 
Eco-Pledge Banner - For students to sign and send to Governor Rendell
 
Philadelphia Zoo - Remarkable Rainforest - a presentation of fragile rainforest eco-sytems
 
Franklin Institute - Global Warming and the Weather - How global warming is impacting weather across the planet
 
Whitaker Center - Electricganza - How electricity is generated, and how to conserve it.
 
Hershey Zoo America - Native PA Species (Animals) - The Zoo is bringing PA critters for students to meet
 
Forgotten Friend Repile Sanctuary - Scaly creatures from around the globe
 
Feathers for the Future - Aviary expert Ash Carey flies and discusses endangered exotic birds
 
North Museum of Natural History: Endangered Ocean Animals, Legs and More Legs - Presentations about endangered ocean life and crawly critters
 
Lancaster Conservation District: The Incredible Journey - Interactive lesson testing student's knowledge of water quality
 
Ducks Unlimited - Students will learn how to build-a-call (duck and goose) and have a call to take home (quantities limited)
 
World Dance Academy Lancaster/Zita Angelo, and Rick Palieri - World music and song - It's a small world, after all - we're on this one planet together, and how we live impacts those near and far; nothing brings people together in sharing that overall sense of community like music and dance 

Bullfrog Films - Wake up Freddy, Going Green, Estuary, Intro to Biodiversity - (12-25 minutes in length) - Fun and educational films for students
 
Women of the Cloud Forest - Students will make bracelets from seeds and pods from Costa Rica while learning about this Fair Trade business
 
Visit with the Mascots - Various mascots from eco-agencies will dance and frolic their way into your student's hearts!
 
How Betta Got Her Green On! - Actors from the Pennsylvania Renaissance Faire feature their famous brand of interactive edutainment in this hilarious, audience participation eco-trunk show great for all ages! Hear about Betta-B-Green the Frog’s ecological adventures as she discovers some very simple, effective ways that all of us can actively do our part to be Green-friendly.
 
Polar Revere - A Polar Bear discusses global warming from his perspective
 
Green Jobs Panel - Types of eco-jobs your students can aspire to and how to get there by those in the know
 
Lancaster County Solid Waste Management Authority - Follow the recycling trail - A plastic bottle can become a fleece jacket? How? This and many other fascinating recycling "close the loop" items are presented and discussed
 
Woodmobile - A trailer filled with fascinating information about Pennsylvania's trees and woodlands.
 
Waste Management: Low Litter Lunch - Attendees are asked to participate in reducing meal waste during the event, and Waste Management makes it easy! Touch-A-Truck - get an up close and personal experience with a real trash truck, Furry Tales and Cycler the Robotic Mascot
 
Department of Conservation & Natural Resources - Students can learn how to make their own solar oven, plant a native sunflower seed to take home, discover fun, outdoors activities in PA and visit with many state ec0-agencies and bureaus
 
Fueled for the Future - Students will have hands-on access to a variety of green vehicles and learn how they operate
 
F&M 2008 Science Fair - Eco-winner displays

Department of Education: Project Wet - Patti Vathis

ELA (All Ages)
ELA Sport (a division of ELA Group) and Conestoga DPI will be teaming up to provide the “GGAF Soccer Goal Challenge”. Anyone is welcome to participate and students who make a goal will be entered into an hourly drawing to win their own official size ball. ELA Group will also have their electric Honda Civic hybrid on display for all faire goers to get up close and personal with. Also stop by and chat to ELA about the County Smart Growth Coalition and how developers and regulators are teaming up to try to prevent sprawl and the rapid loss of the County’s iconic farmland.