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Turning food deserts into gardens

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-connection to students lives

-Take your class outside
-interactive read-alouds
-Provide opportunities for students to witness observable natural phenomena
-prior knowledge first
- acknowledge questions, suggestions or observations that may arise spontaneously
-Provide introductory hands-on learning

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-One square foot

-Nature journal

-Rainbow walk

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-inquire-based learning
-integrated learning
-experiential learning
-stewardship learning

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Inquiry based learning (forming questions and curiosities), integrated learning (draw from other disciplines), experiential learning (being out in nature), stewardship (doing things!)

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-based on guiding principles rather than procedures
-focused on improving community rather than individual
-emphasizes collaboration

Knowledge Building Circles :
Setting the children up in a circle, so to make a better more comfortable class discussion.  They also improve promote listening.

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Emotionally/ Socially Engaged Ecoliteracy 

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Emotionally/ Socially Engaged Ecoliteracy 

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Empathy for all forms of life

Embracing sustainability

Making invisible visible

Anticipating unintended consequences

Understanding how nature sustains life

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Possible Lesson Plans for First Introduction to Sustainability

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Possible Lesson Plans for First Introduction to Sustainability

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BioJars, Go Fish!, Ecological Footprint, The World that Came in the Mail

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Encouraged stewardship by allowing students to spend 5 minutes each day to create positive change. (For the environment and otherwise)

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In Landfill Harmonic, children form Paraguay started an orchestra wiht insturments made entirley out of recycled materials from the landfill where they live. This community fostered the concept of sustainabilty within the arts, and how something can always be refurbished and reused.

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Ocean water tempts those who experience water shortages. However, there is quite a process to desalinize the water.
Climate change is also driving scarcity by disrupting nature's water cycle in numerous ways–– wet lands have more water, dry lands are drier, droughts last longer, flooding is more intense, snow melts faster.

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School Garden-  lots of teachable moments
Community Garden- Isles Trenton

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Stressed the importance of using nature to aid in teaching topics across all subjects. (ex: poetry, measurement, how land changes over time...

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Moves away from textbooks as central or sole repository of knowledge

Engages students in direct and active interactions with objects and phenomena in the immediate environment

There is no definite end point -- you want to continuously formulate their ideas and theories

Field trips are an example -- get students out experiencing places that build on what they're learning in class

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-Importance of getting children outside so that they can have hands-on experiences with nature
-Children need to get outside more and have a less structured curriculum
-Children learn more from being outside in all weather conditions

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Environmental protection with the awareness that nature is an exhaustible resource. There is a focus on equal economic growth. We need to meet the needs of the present without compromising the future

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1.Emphasizes collaboration
2. More focused on community learning.
3. Helps students regard themselves and their work as a civilization-wide effort to advance knowledge frontiers

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Assessment of Learning - assessments that measure performance.  Example : graded tests
Assessments for learning - assessments that measure for the sake of learning. Example : student self assessment
Assessments as learning - use assessments as help for the future.

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1. developing empathy for all life
2. embracing sustainability as community practice
3. making invisible visible
4.  anticipating unintended consequences
5. understanding how nature sustains life

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Student-lead discussion, teacher observes

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Susan displayed how she turned trash, plastics, and paper, into art to
display the importance of sustainability, the environment, recycling, water ways, and more.

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Go Fish! activity could be a great way to introduce the concept of sustainability to elementary school children. You provide groups of children with natural resources (goldfish) and encourage them to think about how they can properly distribute those resources rather than take for themselves

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After school program - looking at examples (New Mexico / Oakland, CA) 

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After school program - looking at examples (New Mexico / Oakland, CA) 

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Experiential learning - Project Wet / Shelburne Farm 

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Experiential learning - Project Wet / Shelburne Farm 

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Integrated learning (learning that is linked to classroom learning), Inquiry based approaches that promote student agency, and Experiential learning (time spent in nature) foster stewardship.

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Connections to nature are more commonly formed on a personal and individual level outdoors rather than inside in a classroom. Therefore, we much create opportunities for these types of connections.

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Ecoliterate:
Water Wars and Peace...
We often miss the hidden uses of water–– even though they tend to be the biggest uses of water. Our use of electricity consumes two and a half times more water than the amount used in our bathrooms, kitchens and yards.
Other top used include water used for industry, aquaculture or fish farming, mining and domestic uses through public and private supplies, and livestock.

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Informal Education - Terhune Orchards (Emotionally and Socially Engaged Eco literacy) 

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Informal Education - Terhune Orchards (Emotionally and Socially Engaged Eco literacy) 

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- Reasons to get students outside: memorable, fun, sparks curiosity, engaging, community connection, cross disciplinary
- Ways to provide direct experiences: experiment design and revision, role play, field trips to connect to the lesson, artistic design, active engagement in field research
-What are you intentions for your future classroom? (have something living, field trip to farm, nature walk, have fun)
- Knowledge Building Circles
- Revisit questions throughout the course of an inquiry unit

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-Virtual field trip of the Bronx Zoo:
https://bronxzoo.com/learn/educators/digital-resources/stay-at-home-science
https://sites.google.com/wcs.org/virtualquests/home/bronx-zoo-quests
-  Based on the reading,  from Nature Start, Importance of Animals in Early Education: Education ABOUT animals (show accurate representation),  education FOR animals (ethics, care), and education WITH animals (encounters with animals)
-"The goals of early childhood environmental education are more about fostering a sense of wonder and curiosity about the environment" page 47