Place-based Education (PBE):
- Immerses students in local heritage, cultures, landscapes, opportunities and experiences;
- Uses these as a foundation for the study of language arts, mathematics, social studies, science and other subjects across the curriculum; and
- Emphasizes learning through participation in service projects for the local school and/or community.
Stories From the Field:
Place-based education in action
Chickens in the Classroom
An educator was teaching first graders a lesson about chickens when something unexpected—and extraordinary—happened: a little chicken leapt across a cultural divide.
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Research and Evaluation:
Making the case for place-based education
Highlighted Reports
- Benefits of Place-based Education
- Closing the Achivement Gap
- Quantifying a Relationship Between Place-Based Learning and Environmental Quality
- Benefits of Nature for Children's Health, Fact Sheet #1
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The Network:
Place-based education in your community and around the world
Shelburne Farms
Shelburne Farms is an environmental education center, 1,400-acre working farm, and National Historic Landmark. Our mission is to cultivate a conservation ethic by teaching and demonstrating the stewardship of natural and agricultural resources.
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Calendar
Monday-Friday, July 30- August 3, 2012; 8:30 am-4:30 pm M-Th and 8:30-12:00 Friday
New Institute held at Shelburne Farms. Part workshop, part retreat, part conference.
Summer Workshop Monday-Friday, July 17-19, 2012; 9:00 am-4:00 pm
Enrich your science curriculum with
exciting, interdisciplinary, hands-on,
and easy-to-use activities on environmental
and agricultural topics. This workshop is
designed to increase science literacy and
cultivate connections by tracing the food we
eat and the clothes we wear back to the farm.
Monday-Friday, July 16-20, 2012; 8:30 am-4:30 pm
Join with colleagues from across North
America and beyond, working to embrace
service-learning and sustainability
in their practice. CWI's Institute provides
K-16 teachers, community educators, and
administrators with training, models, strategies,
and resources for developing service-learning
and sustainability as an integrated
curriculum. The Institute emphasize
the use of service-learning best practices
through engaging training with experienced
practitioners, as well as through
study groups, planning and reflection time.
Veteran faculty and partners will share tools
and experience throughout the week. Participants
will develop an integrated service-learning
instructional or site plan meeting
their own unique needs. Opportunities for
post-Institute support are available.
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Vignette
Salamander Mark and Recapture Study
This study looks at longevity, growth, and dispersal of five species of salamander. Volunteer high school and college interns live capture salamanders in the study area. Salamanders of a certain size are marked with an injected marking devise, weighed, and measured. Interns work with visiting middle school and high school groups to catch and study salamanders.
Appalachian Highlands Science Learning Center
Purchase Knob, NC
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