Creating Green Partnerships to Promote Environmental Education
Connecting to the community to promote Pre-K–4 preservice teachers’ preparedness and confidence in environmental education
Posts tagged ‘energy’
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Apr 30
Re-Power Your School; Empower Your Students
Educators can have influence beyond the classroom as catalysts for the transition to clean energy in their schools and districts.
An Outdoor Play and Learn Area
This unique elementary school playground helps kids learn about science and the environment while having fun and keeping active. By Amanda Gebicki and Alison Reilly.
An excerpt from Green Teacher's Summer 2013 issue.
Acting Out Energy Forms
A very active activity for grades K-8 which teaches about different forms of kinetic, potential, and renewable energy. Helps provide a context for teaching scientific principles related to energy transformations, chemical transformations, electricity and light, which are central to many clean energy technologies.
Mar 30
The Hawk in the Nest
A circle game similar to “The Farmer in the Dell”, which teaches children up to age eight about food chains within a given habitat. Builds students’ understanding of how energy is transferred through various creatures within a community.
