Rooting Readers in the Literary Garden
How a Literary Garden turned a required high school English class into an exciting opportunity for students to dig literature outdoors
Posts from the ‘News’ Category
Oct 13
Where Does Our Food Come From?
A lesson to help grade 3-8 students appreciate the impact our food system has on climate change
Cover Story offers Green Teacher articles for free!
Individual Green Teacher articles can now be purchased for 99 cents from Cover Story. To celebrate Canada Day (July 1) and Independence Day (the 4th of July) in the United States, Cover Story is offering all of the articles from our Summer 2017 issue for free. Click here to access them.
Green Teacher 113, Summer 2017
Our Summer issue includes eleven wonderful articles and more than 25 reviews of new educational resources. Among the highlights, the cover story describes an exciting, community-driven process to ensure that every young person has dozens if not hundreds of opportunities to develop and practice a stewardship ethic throughout their years of formal schooling. Check out this and ten other innovative learning strategies in the Summer issue.
Jun 12
Partnering with Ski-Hills for Active Learning
Developing outdoor classrooms at local ski hills to develop minds and bodies
Secondary Science Outdoors
How high school science teachers include outdoor activities in their lessons
Jun 12
Pledging for Change
High school students modify one personal action to help the environment
Jun 12
Eco-Detectives
A mystery event that engages youth between 5-12 years old in experiential learning
Plug Kids in to Nature
Bring nature back to elementary aged children by way of a Forest School
Natural Colours from Plants
An experiential lesson in practical chemistry, botany and art for Grades 4 to 6
