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Please fill out the green survey at your seats while you are waiting... Thank you!. Bringing the Natural World into Your Classroom. Presented to you by: Stacey Selcho & Anne Norling. Why are we here?. Through observation and experience, we have decided that children

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  1. Please fill out the green survey at your seats while you are waiting...Thank you!

  2. Bringing the Natural World into Your Classroom Presented to you by: Stacey Selcho & Anne Norling

  3. Why are we here? Through observation and experience, we have decided that children are not getting enough exposure to our natural environment. A study by Lieberman and Hoody (1998), suggest that when educators develop their instructional practices in the context of the local environment, students do better academically. We are here to provide environmental education materials and instructional tools to you, that can be easily incorporated into their classroom curriculum in order to provide students with the necessary exposure to the natural environment. Why are you here?

  4. By the end of this workshop, you will… • be able to integrate learning about the natural environment into school curricula. • be able to incorporate the natural world into their classroom setting and instructional design. • understand the importance of the inclusion of the natural environment in the school curricula.

  5. Nature Deficit Disorder…What is it? Environmental Literacy is becoming more and more important to our curriculum and something that is now being referred as “Nature Deficit Disorder” is also becoming more and more a hot topic. The idea of “Nature Deficit Disorder” is that children are spending less time in the natural environment and this is resulting in behavioral and possibly physical disorders. This is not a scientific fact but more of an observational study based on experience and statistics first introduced by Richard Louv. We will be talking more about this phenomenon and the book that Louv wrote called Last Child in the Woods.

  6. Bringing Nature Into The Classroom

  7. Nature theme: Whenever possible, select units or books with topics about animals, ecosystems, farming, gardening, or anything that may generate interest about the outdoors.

  8. Living things: Bring living things into the classroom! Don’t let school restrictions deter you – you could at least put some plants around the room. If it possible, have a fish tank, terrarium, window bird feeder, or grow things from seed.

  9. Natural objects: Put natural objects of all kinds in your classroom. Your students will spend a lot of time exploring these things. Almost any rock, shell, exoskeleton, bone fragment, or even a stick can be an object of great interest to touch and explore. Assign a specific area or table where these objects can have a home and have your students add to this.

  10. Pictures: Cover your walls with pictures of anything in our natural environment; create a bulletin board for these special pictures, and your students could bring there own. Even put up an interesting screen saver on the computers.

  11. Turn your classroom into a nature discovery center: See the Audubon Adventures Nature Discover Center Page! http://www.audubon.org/educate/educators/class_nat_dis_cen.pdf

  12. Cooperative Group Activity Objective: Within groups of 3-4 to create an activity or a lesson within an assigned subject area, that can be created using the given natural objects or object. Subject Areas: math, writing, reading, art, social studies, science, and technology Natural objects – dirt, leaves, branches, plants, seeds, rocks, sand, feather, lichen, bark, flowers, insects, turtle When designing the activities you will have access to any materials they currently have within their classroom. Groups will then present their activities.

  13. Take a break!!! See you in 1 hour!

  14. Louv Story: An interview with Richard Louv about the need to get kids out into nature What do you think? Why do you think so ?

  15. Suggested Reading:

  16. Book One: Beyond Ecophobia: Reclaiming the Heart in Nature Education by David Sobel The Nature Literacy Series

  17. Book Two: Stories in the Land: A Place-Based Environmental Education Anthology with an introduction by John Elder

  18. Book Three Into the Field: A Guide to Locally Focused Learning by Claire Walker Leslie, John Tallmadge, & Tom Wessels, with an introduction by Ann Zwinger

  19. Book Four: Place-Based Education: Connecting Classrooms & Communities 2nd Edition with Index by David Sobel

  20. Resources for your classroom:

  21. Our Example Lesson

  22. For the week… • Reflections • Find an article and reflect • Journaling outside (3 days) • Whatever comes to mind • Choose a particular object/site in nature to write about. • How are you going to change your current practices to incorporate the natural environment into the curricula? • Lesson Design

  23. Thank you for coming!See you next Saturday!

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