No Accident: Successful Field Trips
Tips for non-formal and formal youth educators on how to connect with children ages 9-14 and keep them focused during outdoor field trips.
Posts from the ‘Middle School (ages 11-14)’ Category
Apr 5
Amphibians and Two Game Structures
Role-playing games which help elementary students develop an empathetic relationship to the natural world, while learning about the lives of amphibians.
Apr 5
Bear Beach Camping Trip
An example of how overnight camping trips early in the school year can help urban adolescents connect with the natural world and each other as a learning community.
The Pet Waste Project
Integrate science and language arts in a grade 5 study of local problems with storm water run-off and water quality due to pet waste.
The Environmental Impact of Pets
Use the natural affinity of 11-14 year olds for pets to teach concepts such as carbon footprints and composting.
Beyond Disaster Relief
Help 12-17 year olds make connections between climate change, international development and their local communities through activities and real-life scenarios.
Pedestrian City
Help middle and high school students investigate the walkability of their urban neighbourhoods to prepare them to become globally-minded and locally-engaged citizens with these 3 urban mobility activities.
Unleashing Blessed Unrest As the Heating Happens
How learning spaces can help to avoid the worst scenarios now before us for the heating of the planet, followed by four learning activities
Apr 3
Resolution to Advance Service-Learning
A proposal to advocates of environmental and community-character education.
Field Trips: The Good, Bad and the Ugly
One of the most common mistakes made by a classroom teacher when teaching outdoors is to forget to adapt the teaching techniques and structures used successfully in the classroom. This article recounts the story of a disastrous field trip, the lessons learned, and the steps taken to turn things around.
