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Caring for Our Earth’s Caregivers: Part 2

All recordings are available until March 15th.

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More from Talking with Green Teachers

A lesson based on a podcast episode

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Is Your Community Ready for Electric Vehicles?

An overview plus discussion questions

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What Educators Need to Know About Safer Screentime and Tech-free Greentime

Tips for students and educators

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Contain Your Enthusiasm

Unleashing your garden program in a contained manner

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Finding Ecohappiness in the Classroom

Nature-related mindfulness tools to help students manage stress

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Don’t Worry; BEE Happy

An outdoor honey bee simulation game

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What Happens in a World with Tuskless Elephants?

An article followed by a lesson plan for secondary school classes

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The Little School That Could

The dream of Riverside’s Knowledge Path became a reality during COVID-19.

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Baby, it’s cold outside: leading outdoor learning experiences (even when it’s cold)


Presenter:
Ana Leirner and Molly Gillespie

Originally aired: Sept. 21st, 2022

Nature provides year-round learning opportunities for kids—even when it’s cold! Join Project Learning Tree in a webinar exploring strategies that make the most of winters outdoors and discover fun, hands-on nature activities.

 
GETTING READY FOR THE WEBINAR
 
Materials Needed:
2-3 sheets of paper
Something to color with like crayon or colored pencil
Scissors
Tape
2 pages from an old calendar or magazine (alternatively: 1 sheet of construction paper)
1 thick rubber band
1 stick 6″-8″ long, no wider than your pinky finger (alternatively: 1 full-length pencil)
A natural object
Presenters:
Ana Leirner is the Instructional Designer, Adult Learning for Project Learning Tree (PLT), an initiative of the Sustainable Forestry Initiative. Ana’s wealth of adult education experience includes everything from developing Massive Open Online Courses for government officials in Latin America and the Caribbean to leading training and professional development initiatives for formal and nonformal educators.
 
Molly Gillespie is the Alaska Project Learning Tree Coordinator and is continually inspired by the educators she meets through PLT events.  She has extensive experience teaching kids outdoors and believes that public lands, forests and urban green spaces make the best classrooms. 

Connect with Project Learning Tree:

More Free Activities for Families: https://www.plt.org/activities-for-families/

Educator supplemental curriculum offerings for grades PreK-12: https://shop.plt.org/

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