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
Tuesday-Thursday, August 3-5, 2010; 8:30 am-4:30 pm
Formal and non-formal educators nation-wide are using the idea of sustainability to connect student's learning experiences across the grades and disciplines so that they can meet the challenges and opportunities of the 21st century. Join fellow PreK-12 educators to build strategies and skills for using sustainability to connect curriculum, campus practices, and community engagement.
Summer Workshop Monday-Friday, July 26-30, 2010; 9:00 am-4:00 pm
Discover exciting, interdisciplinary, and hands-on ways to enrich your science curriculum with 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.
On-going 2010
Custom-designed to help teachers address science grade-level expectations and to facilitate farm education programs. One-day school visits by our staff Graduate level courses during school year One or multi-day consultations on your farm with you and/or your farm cooperative group.
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Vignette
Xeriscape Gardens
Preschool and kindergarten children work with teachers, parents, experts from a local nursery, and peer mentors from a nearby elementary school to landscape their school grounds using xeriscaping. Plans included butterfly gardens, composting, and educating the community about water conservation and wildlife.
The Children's Kiva Montessori Preschool and Kindergarten
Cortez, CO
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