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Place-Based learning, also known as Experiential learning, Puts students in a physical location outside of the school building. The community becomes the “classroom”.

Principles:

Students develop stronger ties to their communities

Enhance their appreciation for the natural world

Have a heightened commitment to serving as active, contributing members/citizens

Examples:
-Internships, Study abroad, service learning, civic education
-Using Maps and Geospatial Activities
-Using your location as a classroom

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Trailer: Place-based Learning Inspiration - Classrooms to Communities (C2C)

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" to Transform the way students interact with their world and willingness to promote a more just and sustainable world."

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Discuss with peers and add a comment to the following question.
How can place-based education enable personalized learning?

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Local-to-Global Model: Place begins first with the student’s understanding of themselves and their role in the community and expands, like concentric rings, to classrooms, schools, communities, regions, and the world.

The Continuum: Entry points to place-based learning evolve along a continuum that moves from primarily teacher-centered to primarily learner-centered.

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Step 2. Familiarize yourself with guiding  principles

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Step 2. Familiarize yourself with guiding  principles

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Local to Global Context: Local learning serves as a model for understanding global challenges, opportunities and connections.

Learner-Centered: Learning is personally relevant to students and enables student agency.

Inquiry-Based: Learning is grounded in observing, asking relevant questions, making predictions, and collecting data to understand the economic, ecological, and socio-political world.

Design Thinking: Design thinking provides a systematic approach for students to make meaningful impact in communities through the curriculum.

Community as Classroom: Communities serve as learning ecosystems for schools where local and regional experts, experiences and places are part of the expanded definition of a classroom.

Interdisciplinary Approach: The curriculum matches the real world where the traditional subject area content, skills and dispositions are taught.

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Working to create a power school-community! We grow where we are planted.

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Start to build a network in the community.

Learn from others!

Get out the classroom and try it!

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Elements of the geographical perspective:

1. The world in spatial terms

2. Places and regions

3. Physical systems

4. Human systems

5. Environment and society

6. Uses of geography

Key Points:
- Students learn concepts and skills in the context of familiar geographic spaces by “doing” geography .
- “Doing” geography supports students’ enthusiasm for learning geographic concepts and approaches, such as the value of spatial thinking and geospatial technologies.
- Understanding how and why students interact with their community can reveal important insights into their civic identities, which in turn helps teachers shape curriculum around their needs and interests.

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Source: Appalachian Higher Education Network Asheville, NC June 12, 2014 Doris Terry Williams, Ed. D. 

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Can you brainstorm any ideas for a future project using this framework?

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Can you brainstorm any ideas for a future project using this framework?

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A great place to start is to begin with asking open-ended questions!

Examples:
1.How would you describe the neighborhood surrounding your school to someone from out of town?
2. How do you feel about this neighborhood?
3. Do you consider your to be the center of the community? Explain why or why not.
4. How would you draw a sketch map of your community?

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You have a designated space that you can call your own so that you can get your work done and you can utilize your area well.

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Places & Regions, Physical Systems, Human Systems

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Environment, human systems, and regions

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environment, place and human systems

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Becoming active citizens
Appreciation of nature
Becoming more connected with the world

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ecological and environmental elements

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Location, natural resources, spatial thinking. 

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Location, natural resources, spatial thinking. 

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Location