Looking for Data in All the RIght Places
by Alane J. Starko and Gina D. Schack Creative Learning Press, Inc., 1991
Teachers - show
students how to get out of the library and into the real world! Teachers can use this excellent guidebook to introduce different types of research and to help their students choose their own questions to research, gather and analyze data in order to answer their research questions. Each chapter of this user-friendly book includes explana- tions, examples, and practice activities for different steps of the research process.
Check the website at
http://www.creativelearningpress.com for the table of contents and ordering information..
New Project WET Guide
A revised, updated, and expanded Project WET Curriculum and Activity Guide is being released. This revision is driven by emerging water issues, changing
educational priorities and reform, new sci- entific discoveries and breakthroughs, and the availability of information technology and social connectivity. The new Project WET program encompasses the new guide, a portal, expanded resources, and network- ing opportunities.
http://www.projectwet.org/
Student’s Guide to Global Climate Change
The EPA offers this website for stu-
dents in grades 6-8. The website covers the science, impacts to society and ecosystems, and solutions to climate change through videos, interactive graphics, and more. Resources for teachers include Tips for Educators and links to additional websites.
http://www.epa.gov/climatechange/kids/resources/ additional.html
Green Education Foundation Institute Virtual Classroom
The Green Education Foundation’s GEF Institute is a virtual classroom of- fering courses in sustainability to edu- cators, high school and undergraduate students, and professionals. Each 15-hour course is self-paced over a 90-day period. Classroom courses provide ready-to-use
CLEARING 2011
The Nature Principle: Human
Restoration and the End of Nature-Deficit Disorder
by Richard Louv Algonquin Press 2011
This is the inspiring
follow-up to Louv’s first book, Last Child in the Woods, which sparked a major movement across the nation to disconnect youth from their electronic games and reconnect to nature. In The Nature Principle, Louv continues his powerful plea for people, adults as well as children, to get back outside and recon- nect with nature. Full of inspiration and motivation, the book reveals the growing body of research around the influence of nature on human health.
His findings suggest that a lack of
`nature nearby’ may be associated with an epidemic of obesity and diabetes, asthma, behavior disorders, depression and a diminished sense of place and community. However, as Louv conveys in his book, he is optimistic the trend can be reversed if we bring nature back into our backyards, neighborhoods, and schools. This book is not simply to be read in passing, but incor- porated into our daily experience of life. Available in hard copy, CD- Audio, and E-book formats.
Find out more at
http://richardlouv.com/books/nature- principle/reviews/.
CANADA Conservation Education Assistance Fund (CEAF)
In 2011 HCTF created the Conservation Education Assistance Fund (CEAF) to help educators connect students with the outdoors. By providing K-12 classes across BC with small grants to support outdoor field experiences, HCTF is investing in youth.
Annual Application Deadlines: February 15th and September 15th Grant Amounts: up to $600 per class or $8,000 per school year Eligible Expenditures: bus transportation, outdoor project materials, field trip leader or program fees.
http://www.hctf.ca/CEAF/index.html
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curriculum that integrates sustainability concepts into classrooms using a compre- hensive package of materials and resourc- es. Each 30-hour course includes access to lessons, audits, PowerPoints, and videos. Companion curriculum packs include 10- 15 scripted lessons and a hands-on audit.
http://www.greeneducationfoundation.org/institute
Learning Gardens and Sustainability Education
Bringing Life to Schools and Schools to Life
by Dilafruz Wil- liams and Jona- than D. Brown Published by Routledge, 2011. 222 pgs.
ISPN 978-0-415-89982-6
Offering a fresh approach to bring- ing life to schools and schools to life, this book goes beyond touting the benefits of learning gardens to survey them as a whole-systems design solution with potential to address myriad interrelated social, ecological, and educational issues. The theoretical and conceptual framework presented creatively places soil at the center of the discourse on sustainability education and learning garden design and pedagogy. Seven elements and attributes of living soil and learning gardens are pre- sented as a guide for sustainability educa- tion: cultivating a sense of place; fostering curiosity and wonder; discovering rhythm and scale; valuing biocultural diversity; embracing practical experience ; nurtur- ing interconnectedness. The living soil of learning gardens forms the basis of a new metaphoric language serving to contest dominant mechanistic metaphors pres- ently influencing educational discourse. Student voices and examples from urban schools provide practical understanding of how bringing life to schools can indeed bring schools to life.
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