CLEARING
Special 2009 Compendium Issue
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Into the Green by Mike Weilbacher ........................................................................5
E.E. NEWS AND EVENTS ......................................................................................7
Hood River Middle School Outdoor
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Classroom Project Leads the Way by Michael Becker ............................................10
Connecting Students and Salmon in their Watershed by Daniel King, Ph.D ..........14
A Forest by the Children, For the Children by Kristen Cook ...................................18
Beach Hopper Bonanza: Inquiry-based Learning
While Having Fun! by Stephanie Schroeder and others ........................................20
Lessons of Discovery: Teaching and
Learning Along with Your Students by Charles Graham .........................................22
What Were We Thinking?
14
Putting on a Watershed Festival by Sharon Morse .................................................24
Hope Trumping Despair: Teaching
Teachers in a Garden by Veronica Gaylie ..............................................................26
Raising Awareness Through Service Learning by Katrina Landau ...........................28
Works in Progress: Teaching Strategies
from CLEARING Master Teachers by Jim Martin ....................................................32
Transforming the Suquamish Basket Marsh by Melinda West ................................34
Lasting Change: Teacher-driven Place-based
Education on the Colorado Plateau by Deanna Erickson .......................................36
The Blessed Moment: Promise for
20
Preparing Integrative Learners and Leaders by Pramod Parajuli .................................39
E.E. RESOURCE GUIDE AND REVIEWS ..............................................................43
Opinion: Corporate Curriculum:
Teaching the “Science of Death” by John Borowski ..............................................51
Cover photos (clockwise from upper left): Hillcrest Elementary second graders sieving sand
in search of beach hoppers (Trish Mace); Student scientist at Hood River Middle School
(Michael Becker); Hood River Middle School students investigating glacial recession due to
climate change (courtesy Michael Becker); Tacoma-area middle school students involved in
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service learning project near Puget Sound (Katrina Landau).
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