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.
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Apr 3
Exploring the Twin Landscapes of Biophilic Learning
These nine mini-activities for all ages help enrich our relationship with nature and with others by tapping our innate need as human creatures to affiliate with the habitats, creatures, and processes of the natural world.
Waldkindergarten in Germany
How unconventional programs employ extended immersion in nature to foster empathy and stimulate intellectual development among young people.
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
Tearing off the Labels: Service Learning Principles in Action
A school-campus enhancement project that exemplifies the principles of service-learning
Apr 3
Resolution to Advance Service-Learning
A proposal to advocates of environmental and community-character education.
Minding Their Minds
Research about how the brain processes information shows educators how important it is to keep learning experiences emotional, relevant, and comprehensible.
Apr 1
Growing an Endangered Plants Network
In communities across North America, threats to plants are at record levels. The Endangered Plants Stewardship Network, initiated by educators from botanical museums, government agencies and environmental groups, is engaging teachers and students in learning about and helping to restore populations of rare and endangered plants in the southeastern U.S.
Apr 1
Glorious Weeds!
The author shares ideas and activities designed to help students appreciate the value of common plants that are often dismissed as mere "weeds."
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.
