Art & Humanities
Integrating Place-based EE, Literacy, and the Performing Arts
Staging Nature Integrating Place-based Environmental Education, Literacy, and the Performing Arts by Regine Randall, Rebecca Edmondson, and MaryAnne Young "Teacher, teacher, teacher, teacher, teacher!” Such a cry is likely to get any educator’s attention—and...
Poetry and Science Education
Poetry as a Tool for Science Communication by Whitney Chandler Funding for the arts is continuing to be reduced year after year. The importance of serving our children’s right brain has been pushed aside to afford them lessons in math and science. However,...
Eco-Art: How to Flow Upstream
By Shimshon Obadia hirty-one degrees Celsius and the air is dry to the touch in downtown Kelowna, BC. I whip my bicycle down the shoulder of Pandosy Street where the bike lane would be until I hit K.L.O. Road where I connect to the actual bike lane embedded in the...
The Value of Creative Teaching – Art and Environmental Education
The Value of Creative Teaching Place-based environmental education through the lens of art and creative writing by Tess Malijenovsky lace-based environmental education is taking front seat inside and outside classrooms across the country in part to prepare...
Wild Words: A guide to integrating creative writing into field-based education
Wild Words: A guide to integrating creative writing into field-based education by Becca Deysach “I’ve always wanted to write but never gave myself permission.” This sentiment is the one I have heard most frequently since I began teaching creative writing several years...
Greening the Language Arts
Considering Sustainability Outside of the Science Classroom by Lauren G. McClanahan Western Washington University Humanity is exalted not because we are so far above other living creatures, but because knowing them well elevates the very concept of life. —E.O. Wilson...
Storytelling in Science Education
by Brian "Fox" Ellis I learned early on that storytelling is one of the most important tools for teaching science. If you think about it . . . what is science? Science is an attempt to understand the universe. A well-told science story does three important jobs: It...
Dying is Easy: Comedy in Environmental Education
by Eric J. Fitch, Ph.D. Abstract: In the contest of ideas, environmental educators put themselves at disadvantage by not availing themselves of the tools of humor. From satire to ridicule to comedy, the ability to connect through humor shouldn’t be overlooked. Humor...
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