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# CLEARING: PNW Journal of Environmental Education in the Pacific Northwest

A Nonprofit Journal for Environmental Education in the Pacific Northwest

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- [Healing Waters](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/21538) - Healing Waters An Oregon educator breaks the logjam of environmental conflict by Matt Love The rain stops and my 7th and 8th grade combined English class hikes down Nestucca Spit, a finger of drifting dunes on the north Oregon Coast. We are there to stimulate our senses for a poetry writing exercise. It takes
- [Teaching Biodiversity Through Local Landscapes: Salmon, Storying, and Place-Based Learning](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/21578) - Teaching Biodiversity Through Local Landscapes: Salmon, Storying, and Place-Based Learning Authors: Poh Tan PhD (UBC, Exp. Medicine), PhD (SFU, Education) Scientist, Researcher, Educator, Author, Entrepreneur Non-Regular Faculty, Research Associate, Institute for Environmental Learning; Founder and CEO, STEMedge Academy Jennifer Wong 3rd Year Student, Visual Arts, Emily Carr University of Art + Design; Certificate of Visual
- [Lessons for teaching in the environment and community - 11](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/4433) - "Lessons for Teaching in the Environment and Community" is a regular series that explores how teachers can gain the confidence to go into the world outside of their classrooms for a substantial piece of their curricula. Part 11: Assimilation Continued by Jim Martin, CLEARING guest writer e’ve been talking about assimilation, where we start in
- [Pairing Autoethnography with Biocultural Diversity in Botanical Gardens](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/21156) - Dr. David Zandvliet, Ph.D., Simon Fraser University Professor and UNESCO Chair Chantal Martin Director, Education & Research Vancouver Botanical Gardens Association Poh Tan PhD (UBC, Exp. Medicine), PhD (SFU, Education) Scientist, Researcher, Educator, Author, Entrepreneur Research Associate, Institute for Environmental Learning Founder and CEO, STEMedge Academy Shaila Shams Doctoral Student, Faculty of Education Simon Fraser
- [Supporting Our Children's Innate Sense of Wonder](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/10571) - Holding the Space: Supporting Our Children's Innate Sense of Wonder By David Strich, M.Ed. “If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement, and mystery of the world we live in.” -- Rachel
- [What is Good Environmental Education?](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/12576) - What is Good Environmental Education? Our students need to be ready to invest in building positive futures for the communities to which they belong - household to global. by Peter Hayes (originally published in CLEARING Feb 17, 2016 he choice to become an educator brings with it a career-long sentence to the blessing and curse
- [No Fooling:  Exploring the Nature of Responsibility,  Progress, Success, and Good Work](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/11462) - No Fooling: Exploring the Nature of Responsibility, Progress, Success, and Good Work How we answer a challenge raised over half a century ago regarding the way we handle the blessings of nature will go a long way towards determining our future. by Peter Hayes In the roughly 10,000 years since members of our species first
- [A "STEAM-Powered" Partnership: Quatama School/Oregon Zoo](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/13392) - by Alison Heimowitz Every fall students in Sharon Angal’s third-grade classroom at Quatama Elementary, a STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics) school in the Hillsboro School District, wait patiently for the arrival of the “salmon lady.” “She’s here, she’s here!” is heard echoing down the hallway. Older students who have already experienced raising
- [From Alaska to Oregon: Students Experience the 2025 NAME Conference](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/21519) - From Alaska to Oregon: Students Experience the 2025 NAME Conference reprinted from NW Compass, the newsletter of the Northwest Aquatic and Marine Educators (NAME) The Ketchikan National Ocean Sciences Bowl team, also known as the Saber-Toothed Salmon, is a competition based high school group that focuses on ocean related knowledge in Alaska and beyond. While
- [Digital Environmental Literacy: Student Generated Data and Inquiry](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/14303) - How do we train educators to successfully interface technologies with the outdoor experiences that they provide their students? by R. Justin Hougham, Marc Nutter, Megan Gilbertson, Quinn Bukouricz University of Wisconsin - Extension Originally published January 2020 Technology in education (ed tech) is constantly changing and growing in impact in classrooms across the globe. While
- [Integrating Place-based EE, Literacy, and the Performing Arts](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/19372) - 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 quickly. Yet, this repetitive call is not coming from a child but, rather, an ovenbird whose common breeding territory includes
- [Fun With Soil Health: Engaging Communities in Agriculture Education](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/21248) - It’s hard to imagine a more attention-getting activity for students of all ages than the Soil Your Undies Challenge. The name alone evokes questions, and the process is a memorable way for students to understand the multiple factors impacting soil health, as 21 K-12 educators learned at an Engaging Communities in Agriculture Education workshop in
- [A linguistic "ecosystem": Word study methods for outdoor education](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/21146) - A linguistic "ecosystem": Word study methods for outdoor education by Sam Rubin samrubin19@gmail.com Once the students had settled on the benches of the Pond Shelter on IslandWood’s campus, I unfolded my large butcher paper with the word "macroinvertebrate" written in large letters. “What does that say, macrinovirbatalalalate?” “Microscope?” “Macaroni and cheese!” A chorus
- [Can technology  connect us to place?](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/1206) - Homewaters Project, an educational nonprofit in Seattle, successfully uses Geographic Information System (GIS) technology as one of its methods of connecting students to their natural and social communities. By Todd Burley, Homewaters Project As place-based educators, we often shudder at the notion that technology can connect people to the world around them. The very idea
- [Raising Awareness Through  Service Learning:](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/607) - Citizens for a Healthy Bay’s Junior Bay Ranger Program By Katrina Landau In 2003, the Washington State Legislature passed ESHB 1466 that established the Natural Science, Wildlife and Environmental Education Partnership Grant program under the Washington State Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction (OSPI). In the 2005-2006 inaugural year, Citizens for a Healthy Bay
- [Bias and the Educator in the Mirror](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/1290) - Bias and the Educator in the Mirror Our inherent perspectives color the world we share with our students. by Victor Elderton Many of us in environmental education strive to create lessons and activities which we hope will facilitate greater understanding and stimulate higher levels of environmental inquiry among our students. The number of positive programs
- [Field-based Inquiry: Developing Comprehension and Memory](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/20779) - Field-based Inquiry: Developing Comprehension and Memory Preparing teachers to introduce their students to field-based research in local or regional environments means that these teachers have an inherent need to actually be able to do the kinds of work they plan for their students to engage. Something to think about. by Jim Martin It’s a
- [Building a Community: The Value of a Diack Teacher Workshop](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/20768) - Building a Community: The Value of a Diack Teacher Workshop Teachers are being asked to do more than ever before. We are inundated with meetings, grading, analyzing data and curriculum development. The idea of taking kids outside to do field-based research can be daunting and filled with bureaucratic hurdles. Given all this, why should we
- [Instilling a culture of caring and fieldwork in a Montessori adolescent program](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/20756) - Instilling a culture of caring and fieldwork in a Montessori adolescent program by Jonathan Erickson Metro Montessori School Portland Oregon One thing that drives most educators is the hope that we are guiding students who will ultimately care about the work that they do and care about the world in which they do it. Remembering
- [STEM Field Study Kits for All! - Investigating the Natural Environment](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/13212) - STEM Field Study Kits for All! by Martin E. Fortin, Jr. AWSP Director of Learning Centers Originally published in CLEARING January 2017 arly in my career as a science teacher I had the opportunity to attend a lecture by the famous Princeton professor Dr. Herbert Alyea. His demonstrations were so legendary he was referred to
- [Expeditionary Learning: Exploring Healthy Forests](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/20689) - Expeditionary Learning: Exploring Healthy Forests By Val McKern and Greg Goodnight What is a healthy forest? That is the question that Kettle Falls Elementary School fourth graders have been grappling with all winter. In order to examine this question, fourth grade teachers Sally James, Sydney Potestio and Judy Galli have designed an expedition with carefully
- [Thoughts on teaching environmental realism at an early age](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/20727) - The wild turkeys on my street don’t wear booties in the winter and the mouse in my house doesn’t wear bonnets from a closet! Should environmental education start with realism in the early years? by Suzanne Major Ph.D. Anthropology of Early Childhood Education Books and movies have made animals, insects and plants so charming and
- [Poetry and Science](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/14131) - Utilizing the Tools of Poetry for Science Inquiry by Jim Martin CLEARING consultant pril is National Poetry Month. Can we celebrate it by using poetry to facilitate teaching science as inquiry? What does the flow of thoughts, images of relationships, grammar and syntax, in poetry have that would make it an effective element to use
- [Making Science Engaging at Camp](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/20713) - Making Science Engaging at Camp Connecting art and science helps students find STEM classes more engaging and enjoyable By Elli Korthuis 4-H is a youth development organization that focuses on helping members, ages 5-19 years, grow as individuals through their mastery of their passions, referred to as their spark. The more traditional 4-H program offers
- [Adventure Hike to a Harbor](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/14129) - Adventure Hike to a Harbor: Creating a space for all to engage with marine science By Julia Glassy I am currently a graduate student of University of Washington over on Bainbridge Island, WA at IslandWood, a non-profit outdoor education center. I am passionate about adventuring outdoors and marine science education. Interacting with the marine ecosystem
- [Bringing the Ocean into the Schools...and Schools to the Ocean](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/20678) - Bringing the Ocean into the Schools...and Schools to the Ocean By Catherine and Joachim Carolsfeld “I like the discoveries of the sea tank each time I look at it.” (10 year old Elementary School Student) “Some specimens in our tank that are local I didn’t even know of, and I’ve been around the oceans since
- [Logic Models – A Tool for Evaluation](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/3066) - by Chuck Lennox Principal (Consultant) Cascade Interpretive Consulting LLC Program evaluation is a valuable process to determine the efficacy of programming being offered to the public by an organization or agency. Sometimes the process can feel intimidating. How do I know we made a difference? How do I get started? Logic models help us develop
- [Living Soil and Composting: Life's Lessons in Learning Gardens](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/20661) - Living Soil and Composting: Life's Lessons in Learning Gardens by Dilafruz Williams and Jonathan Brown, Portland State University After we spread the chicken poop, we covered it with hay… the poop was the fertilizer and the hay was the stuff that kept the plants warm. After school I checked the garden. Empty. Nobody. I climbed
- [Integrating STEM and Sustainability through Learning Gardens](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/10755) - Integrating STEM and Sustainability Education through Learning Gardens: A Place-Based Approach to the Next Generation Science Standards by Sybil S. Kelley and Dilafruz R. Williams; Portland State University ur ecological and social problems are deeply interconnected. Climate change, habitat destruction, loss of biodiversity, food insecurity, air and water pollution, along with innumerable other environmental
- [A While in the Wild: Educating for Environmental Empathy](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/2727) - A While in the Wild: Educating for Environmental Empathy Experiences in wild nature, the leadership of a significant adult, and the educational support of the classroom offer powerful tools in shaping students toward lifelong leadership in environmental stewardship. by Fay Mascher M.Ed., Cayley School Jonas Cox Ph.D., Gonzaga University Charles Salina Ph.D., Gonzaga University On
- [Eelgrass as Teacher - Integrating Tradition, Science, and Learning on the British Columbia Coast](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/13222) - Eelgrass as Teacher Integrating Tradition, Science, and Learning on the British Columbia Coast by Nikki Wright ith a respectful hush, students squat on the sand or sit on logs on the warm beach, listening intently to Trish speaking about the way her indigenous Coast Salish community harvested herring roe in Deep Bay, B.C., Canada
- [Homeschooling and the Establishment of a Research Forest](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/20608) - A Natural Fit: Homeschooling and the Establishment of a Research Forest by Jess Lambright For those open to an alternative educational path, a classroom with no walls or desks but instead trees, meadows, and streams, offers abundant opportunities for scientific exploration. My journey in outdoor education started by home-educating my own children, but soon expanded
- [Restoring a School Habitat as Project-based Learning and Inquiry](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/20597) - Scotch Broom Saga: Restoring a School Habitat as Project-Based Learning and Inquiry by Edward Nichols and Christina Geierman Since the advent of No Child Left Behind, many schools have turned their focus inward. Students rarely leave the classroom. Teachers often deliver purchased curricula that attempt to make meaningful connections for students. Lessons may contain examples
- [Empowering Their Voices: Students Sound Off on Puget Sound](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/20583) - Empowering Their Voices: Students Sound Off on the Puget Sound by Nancy Skerritt and Kristin Edlund What makes work truly meaningful? Creating curriculum that harnesses and nurtures the student’s voice is challenging work. We believe that engaging students in real world problems that affect their lives is central to engagement. Grade Nine students in Maple
- [Educating for a Revitalization of the Cultural Commons](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/3023) - by Chet Bowers, Professor Emeritus, Portland State University and Courtesy Professor of Environmental Studies, University of Oregon, United States This article discusses how the cultural commons that exist in every community, both rural and urban, carry forward the intergenerational knowledge and skills that enable people to live more mutually supportive lives that are less dependent
- [Caring for the Sea](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/20571) - from Bec Boyd article: Growing Kids Who Care Clearing Compendium 2011 Oregon Institute of Marine Biology, Charleston OR “It’s good fun learning about the sea. We go out to the bay and find lots of different species. Itís important that we know more about the sea and how to look after it so it will
- [Planting Seeds of Community](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/20565) - Planting Seeds of Community Sunnyside Environmental School, Portland, Oregon “This school makes you more confident and you get to try more things. The mixed classrooms in the middle school work really well. It is pretty fun actually because then the middle school is a bit like a family.” (Eric 12) The riot of colour and
- [Kennedy High School: Turning stragglers into leaders](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/2368) - Exploring Place-based Education Programs in the Pacific Northwest by Becs Boyd A visit to Kennedy High School in Cottage Grove, Oregon on 18 November, turns out to be one of the most uplifting days I have spent in a school, perhaps ever. Formally known as AL Kennedy Alternative High School, the school was founded
- [Cultivating Identity: The power of identity development in the environmental education field](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/15213) - Cultivating Identity: The power of identity development in the environmental education by Morgan Malley For some time now Rupi Kaurís words "fall in love with your solitude" have been delicately swirling in my head. As a child I struggled to formulate an understanding of my identity due to being mixed-race. Being perceive as never ìfullyî
- [Abernethy Elementary’s Farm-to-School and School Garden Program (plus Corvallis and CREST)](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/20543) - In Pursuit of Environmental Literacy: Abernethy Elementary’s Farm-to-School and School Garden Program by Sarah Sullivan At Abernethy Elementary, students enjoy freshly cooked breakfasts and lunches prepared on site by a trained chef. The meals are often prepared with local and seasonal ingredients harvested from the school’s Garden of Wonders. The garden itself is entirely planted,
- [The Window into Green](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/865) - by Mike Weilbacher With the new wave of interest in the environment, will we finally give students the tools they need to become environmentally literate citizens? In just a few weeks, high school seniors all around the United States will walk proudly across stages, hoisting their diplomas as they graduate from formal K–12 education.
- [Meet the BEETLES: Bringing Wonder, Curiosity & Science to Residential Outdoor Schools](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/8160) - by Kevin Beals & Craig Strang magine a residential outdoor science program where instructors—all of them—routinely combine their passion for the natural world with a deep understanding of research-based teaching approaches that are based on all we know about how people learn. BEETLES (Better Environmental Education, Teaching, Learning, Expertise & Sharing), funded by the S.D.
- [Integration Can Help You Teach More Science and Environmental Education](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/20468) - by Jim McDonald The demands on classroom teachers to address a variety of different subjects during the day means that some things just get left out of the curriculum. Many schools have adopted an instructional approach with supports for students that teach reading and math, with the addition of interventions to teach literacy and numeracy
- [Children’s Grand Adventure: The power of potential through the power of place](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/20472) - Children’s Grand Adventure: The power of potential through the power of place by Sami Wolniakowski Southern Oregon University Graduate Student In order to heal from hardship, for centuries people resorted to nature. The calm and beauty found in the outdoors instills an everlasting joy. In the pristine wilderness of the Jackson Hole Valley, a non-profit
- [Cultivating Environmental Literacy and Sustainable Food through a Community Ambassador Program](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/20446) - Cultivating Environmental Literacy and Sustainable Food through a Community Ambassador Program by Jessica Day, Claudia Ludwig, and Nitin S. Baliga, Institute for Systems Biology Project Feed 1010 (PF1010) was founded in 2015 in response to a need identified by educators: students need to understand and be prepared to positively impact our food system in the
- [Lessons of Feed Security, Sustainable Farming, and Systems Biology](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/20457) - Student perspective By Kayla Tran, University of Washington Student, Renton High School Graduate, 2018-2019 Project Feed 1010 Ambassador Crawfish, bean sprouts, and models of the water cycle and land erosion have lived on as my happiest memories of elementary school. I moved to the United States when I was 7 years old as an English
- [Empowering Elementary Students through Environmental Service-Learning](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/20432) - Empowering Elementary Students through Environmental Service-Learning by Eileen Merritt, Tracy Harkins and Sara Rimm-Kaufman “We use electricity when we don’t need to.” “When we use electricity we use fossil fuels and fossil fuels pollute the air and fossil fuels are nonrenewable.” “We use too many non-renewable resources to make energy.” “One problem that we have
- [Discovering Careers in Natural Resources through Outdoor Adventures](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/20409) - Discovering Careers in Natural Resources through Outdoor Adventures by Emily J. Anderson Oregon State University Career education and opportunities to explore diverse options in higher education are often limited for many high school students. New college students cite personal interests and work-relevant experiences as the primary factors influencing their degree and career choice (Lent et
- [Environment, Literacy, and the Common Core](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/20401) - Environment, Literacy, and the Common Core by Nancy Skerritt and Margaret Tudor, Ph.D. ABSTRACT: This article describes how Common Core ELA standards provide an important opportunity to build background knowledge on environmental topics in preparation for a deeper study of those topics through science performance tasks guided by the Next Generation Science Standards Disciplinary Core
- [EE Research: Memories from Residential Outdoor Education Have Long-term Impact](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/20213) - THE RESEARCH: Liddicoat, K. R., & Krasny, M. E. (2014). Memories as useful outcomes of residential outdoor environmental education. The Journal of Environmental Education, 45(3), 178–193. For students, spending several days at a residential outdoor environmental education (ROEE) program creates many new and powerful experiences, some of which are remembered for years to come. Yet,
- [Integrating Watershed Science in High School Classrooms](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/20369) - Integrating Watershed Science in High School Classrooms The Confluence Project Approach High school students in northern Idaho learn about watersheds and the impacts of climate change through an intensive field science program that aligns with the Next Generation Science Standards. by Audrey Squires, Jyoti Jennewein, Mary Engels, Dr. Brant Miller and Dr. Karla Eitel
- [Tend, Gather and Grow](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/20344) - A Teaching Toolkit Connecting Students with Plants, Places, and Cultural Traditions By Kim Gaffi, Mariana Harvey (Yakama) and Elise Krohn Educating younger generations on the gifts of the land has always been a cornerstone of Indigenous teachings to strengthen mind, body, and spirit. As Skokomish Elder Bruce Miller said, “The Forest was once our Walmart.”
- [Racial Equity in Outdoor Science Education](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/19258) - “We will not go back to normal. Normal never was. Our pre-corona existence was not normal other than we normalized greed, inequity, exhaustion, depletion, extraction, disconnection, confusion, rage, hoarding, hate, and lack. We should not long to return, my friends. We are being given the opportunity to stitch a new garment. One that fits all
- [K-12 Environmental Education Activity Ideas](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/20236) - GRADES K-2 Science Animal Ingenuity Explore how animal use materials from the environment in building homes. Start by looking at a bird’s nest. Examine the nest carefully. Use a hand lens. List all the materials you find in the nest. How is it held together? Social Studies Careers Notebook Make a “Careers Notebook” of environmentally-related
- [Ear to the Ground: Robert Steelquist](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/16665) - Robert Steelquist: Coastal Explorer Robert Steelquist is a native Pacific Northwest writer, photographer, naturalist, and environmental educator with a 40-year career introducing learners to the nature of the Northwest. He has led hundreds on nature walks, backpacking trips, tall ship trainings, river floats, teacher workshops, archaeology field schools, and other outdoor adventures. His public service
- [Finding Dragons](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/19112) - by Erin Banks Rusby. Reprinted from the Idaho Press n the summer of 2023, a group of high school students and adults converged over their shared interest in science and dragonflies. Known as the Finding Dragons program, the effort aimed to provide hands-on, publishable research experience to high school students and adults, while answering some
- [Building Environmental Education from Community Resources](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/19345) - Sophie Diliberti, Justin Hougham, Brad Bessler, and Brooke Bellmar ocusing on specific aspects of learners’ local context can increase their engagement in environmental education. One way for educators to pinpoint a community's specific environmental circumstances is by adapting existing locally focused sustainability resources. After establishing the environmental issues that are relevant to the community,
- [Exploring Culture and Environment - Pt 2](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/14143) - Blooming Culture: The Canoe as a Vessel for Exploring Culture This article is a story of how fourth-grade students in Moscow, Idaho studied the confluence of cultures throughout Idaho’s history by building a canoe, hand-carving paddles, and actively participating in the resurgence of the traditional canoe throughout the Pacific Northwest region. We hope you
- [Beyond Environmental Literacy](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/20252) - Developing the “Whole Person” By Emily J. Anderson Photos by Emily McDonald-Williams Practitioners in the field of environmental education have a variety of personal reasons for pursuing this work. Many cite their desire to connect youth with nature, introduce youth to careers in the sciences, and generally, create an environmentally literate society. While we are
- [Jim Martin: Education a Race to the Top?](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/20242) - Or, can we slow down enough to use inquiry to build effective conceptual learnings? Education is not a Race to the Top. I have to state that up front. In a Race to the Top are we allowed the time it takes to contemplate what we are learning? Time to dig into the record to
- [Designing Earth-Friendly Solutions To The Plastics Problem](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/20227) - by Kathryn Davis According to the United Nations, each year enough plastic is thrown away to circle the earth four times, and these plastics can take over 1000 years to degrade! Sobering facts such as these and images illustrating the devastating effect of plastic waste on wildlife can leave many feeling paralyzed and hopeless. While
- [Reading the Landscape: Early Literacy in the Outdoor Classroom](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/20219) - by Joanna Wright Will my child be ready for Kindergarten?” As nature-based early childhood programs spring up across the country, this is a common query from interested families. While parents want to offer their children a chance to play outside, some also wonder if searching for bugs and traipsing through puddles will adequately prepare their
- [Climate Change in Kwigillingok](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/20167) - First-person narratives bring climate change closer to home. By Lauren G. McClanahan “So, is her house actually sinking?” “Yes, Heather, it is.” “But, that’s so sad! I want to do something about that!” No doubt my preservice secondary education student, Heather, is familiar with the topic of climate change. Everywhere we look, we see media
- [Solo Walks](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/20160) - by Abigail Harding and Corwyn Ellison “We do not learn from experience, we learn from reflecting on experience.” -—John Dewey When we walk silently in the forest we allow ourselves to deepen our connection and strengthen our appreciation for the natural world. Suddenly, we hear animals unfamiliar to us, and observe natural phenomena we never
- [Tangible Connections](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/20152) - Tangible Connections The Value of Community Agreements by Alyssa Caplan and Summer Swallow ABSTRACT Student-generated community agreements serve to create a positive learning community in residential outdoor environmental programs. This activity is essential and creates opportunities to reveal connections between people and ecosystems by weaving together Native Education, diversity, team building, and hands-on learning. Visualizing
- [Screens in the Forest](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/20145) - by Greta Righter As an instructor at IslandWood, an environmental learning center on Bainbridge Island, WA, my week with students is fleeting. I have four days during IslandWood’s School Overnight Program (SOP) to explore and investigate the natural world with groups of 4-6th graders, and it never seems to be enough time. At IslandWood, students
- [Towards Defining Resilience](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/20141) - AGES: 13 –18+ years old CONTRIBUTED BY Center for Cities + Schools University of California, Berkeley y-plan.berkeley.edu What does resilience mean to you? Psychologists, ecologists, and economists, cities, schools and businesses, and individuals all over the world have developed their own definitions. Increasingly, these once disparate uses of resilience are converging into a cohesive system;
- [K-12 Activities](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/20136) - GRADES K-2 Science Garbage Gardens Have students bring in an egg carton and empty halved egg shells from six eggs. Pierce the bottom of the egg shells and fill them with composted soil. Place the egg shells in the egg carton to keep upright. Plant various types of seeds in the egg shells. Make sure
- [River Newe: Creating New Narratives](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/18040) - River Newe: Creating New Narratives On Historic Landscapes In this article we present our work that directly addresses Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (JEDI) for our tribal youth of the Shoshone-Bannock people. We have reimagined what JEDI means for us through environmental education activities as they relate to our efforts to reinhabit the traditional homelands
- [Summer 2022 - Intro](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/19995) - Indigenous Perspectives and Environmental Education: Connecting Youth with Plants, Places, and Cultural Traditions INTRODUCTION These are exciting times in our region. We are fortunate to live at the confluence of two currents: the growing integration of Indigenous perspectives in both formal and informal education, and a surge of cultural revitalization in Indigenous communities. In the
- [Indigenous Perspectives: Introduction](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/20079) - Indigenous Perspectives on EE Summer 2022 These are exciting times in our region. We are fortunate to live at the confluence of two currents: the growing integration of Indigenous perspectives in both formal and informal education, and a surge of cultural revitalization in Indigenous communities. In the state of Washington, the 2015 passage of Senate
- [Indigenous Perspectives: Supporting Non-native Educators](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/20084) - Supporting Non-Native Educators with Since Time Immemorial: The Hummingbird Story by Jenni Conrad Summary: Based on research partnering with three Coast Salish nations, I offer five considerations to support K-12 non-Native educators who (like me) seek to build reciprocal relationships and strengthen their teaching with Indigenous nations and knowledges through the Since Time Immemorial curriculum.
- [Jane Goodall Environmental Middle School: 25 Years of Field-based Research](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/20054) - by Mike Weddle The Jane Goodall Environmental Middle School (JGEMS) is a public charter school in Salem, Oregon focused on conservation biology and technology. We have been doing field-based research with students for 25 years, working at sites located just outside the classroom to sites throughout Oregon. We have found that the formal research projects
- [Why Field-based Inquiry?](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/20048) - by Willow Myrland Prior to teaching I worked for the USGS conducting amphibian and reptile surveys. I remember being struck by the fact that very little of my theoretical knowledge of science prepared me for the practical application of actually doing science. The recipe-like labs of my education did not prepare me for designing my
- [Poetry and Science: Pathways to Presence](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/20030) - By Emilie Lygren I am a poet and outdoor science educator.” This is what I say when asked what I do for work. For me, poetry and outdoor science are complementary ways of looking at the world. They’re both rooted in common attitudes of attention, curiosity, and humility. They both require being present with the
- [Justice and Equity in Environmental Education - Special Issue Winter 2022](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/17391) - [et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ admin_label=”section” _builder_version=”4.16″ global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row admin_label=”row” _builder_version=”4.16″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.16″ custom_padding=”|||” global_colors_info=”{}” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text” _builder_version=”4.27.4″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” global_colors_info=”{}”] CLEARING Special Focus Issue:Justice, Equity and Diversity in Environmental Education Guest Editor: R. Justin Hougham, Ph.D.Associate Professor, University of Wisconsin-MadisonSpecial Advisor: Derek Hoshiko, Community Organizer and Educator on Climate Change and Environmental
- [Green Schoolyards - Garden Enrichment](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/19985) - Activating Schoolyards through Garden Enrichment by Bekah Marten, WSU Clark County Extension School Garden Coordinator In my current role as a School Garden Coordinator in SW Washington state, I have been able to work alongside school staff to help develop garden programming at area elementary schools. Often the schools that I have partnered with are
- [GSY: Understanding Green Schoolyards](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/19966) - Special Issue: Understanding Green Schoolyards Picture a noisy elementary classroom, with bustling kids cleaning up from a morning of schoolwork. Then see the doors swing open and they head outside for some fresh air and play. Some students make a straight line right to their favorite equipment, like the swings. Some head for sports, like
- [Green Schoolyard:](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/19973) - by Jane Tesner Kleiner We know that for kids of all ages, play equals learning. And play comes in many forms, such as team sports, partner games and individual kids creating their own play. Play can also be active, passive or quiet. Learning also comes in many forms, such as visual, auditory, kinesthetic, and reading/writing.
- [Field-based Research](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/19302) - How to Design Field-based Research Experiences By Molly L. Sultany, msultany@nwacademy.org High School Teacher, Northwest Academy, Portland, Oregon Navigating Unchartered Waters How can educators help students feel more connected to the outdoors while engaging with the work of research scientists? Scientific research may feel elusive to high school students, an unknown world hidden behind a
- [Landscape and Language](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/19548) - Landscape and Language Going outside can enhance language arts skills and open childrens’ eyes to the wonder of nature. By Lorraine Ferra When the German poet Rainer Maria Rilke admitted to his sculptor friend Rodin that he had come to a standstill in his writing, the artist suggested that Rilke leave his desk, visit the
- [Thoughts of an Outdoor Education "Elder"](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/17027) - by Daniel Kreisberg During college I was a waterfront director at a sleepaway camp and absolutely loved it. When my post college job search led me to residential outdoor education centers I was thrilled. It was summer camp all year round and it allowed me to follow my lifelong passion for the natural world. The
- [Coyote Teaching](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/9586) - by Connor O'Malley reprinted courtesy of Alderleaf Wilderness College http://www.wildernesscollege.com/ oyote teaching is a phrase popularized by Tom Brown Jr. and Jon Young. Similar teaching methods however, have been used by indigenous people, philosophers, psychologists, and wise individuals all over the world. A “coyote teacher” is one who encourages the student to delve deeper into
- [Incorporating Traditional Ecological Knowledge into Geoscience Education](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/11544) - It Takes a Community to Raise a Scientist: A Case for Community-Inspired Research and Science Education in an Alaskan Native Community By Nievita Bueno Watts and Wendy F. Smythe The quote, "lt takes a village to raise a child," is attributed to African tradition and carries over to Alaskan Native communities as well (Hall,
- [Idaho Environmental Education Teacher Award](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/19333) - Idaho teacher awarded for environmental education instruction Originally posted on IdahoEdNews.org on June 26, 2023 Misha Smith, a sixth grade teacher at Hawthorne Elementary in Boise, earned two recognitions for her work as an environmental science and geography teacher. Smith’s classroom instruction earned her the Presidential Innovation Award for Environmental Educators and commendation as a
- [Exploring the Classroom Beyond: A Beginner's Guide to Implementing Place-based Education](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/19122) - by Lucy Clothier eing a new teacher in this contemporary era of education can feel like the weight of the world is on your shoulders. The demands placed upon teachers are extensive, often lacking clear pathways to achieving these substantial goals. Within the classroom, educators bear the responsibility of nurturing a grade-appropriate understanding of numeracy
- [Experiential Learning to Create Authentic Learning](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/19182) - Experiential Learning to Create Authentic Learning by Haley Korcz hen in your academic career did you question why you were learning something or how it would benefit you in real life? Did real-life connections from your academic learning impact your career choice? When I started my undergraduate career in environmental biology I found it hard
- [Using Stations to Increase Student Independence: Overview and Lesson Plan](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/19184) - by Allison Breeze s an educator, I believe that learning happens when students are applying their knowledge in practice. To this end, I am always looking for activities that engage students in hands-on ways with whatever topic they are learning about. Exploration and experience can provide immensely beneficial learning opportunities for students that give them
- [Special Issue: Justice, Equity and Diversity in Environmental Education](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/19254) - Guest Editor: R. Justin Hougham, Ph.D. Associate Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison Special Advisor: Derek Hoshiko, Community Organizer and Educator on Climate Change and Environmental Equity e are excited to bring our readers this special edition of CLEARING Magazine. This issue focuses on Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (JEDI) in the environmental education field. For the
- [Equity in a Time of Socio-Environmental Justice](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/19263) - Equity in a Time of Socio-Environmental Justice by Max Jimenez Environmental Literacy, Policy This article was republished with permission and originally appeared in California Classroom Science (CCS), an e-newsletter produced by the California Science Teachers Association (CSTA). hen we talk about the education system and how it can be utilized as a tool to promote
- [Inside the Spring 2019 Issue](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/17439) - Inside the Spring 2019 issue https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/15269 https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/16855 https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/14324 https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/14370
- [Maybe the problem wasn’t WHAT we were learning but WHERE we were learning?](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/19151) - At-risk students are exposed to their local environment to gain an appreciation for their community, developing environmental awareness built on knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors applied through actions. Lindsay Casper and Brant G. Miller University of Idaho Moscow, Idaho Photos by Jessie Farr n the last day of class, I walked with my students along
- [NatureMapping Takes Kids -- and Technology -- Outside and into Active Learning](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/3728) - NatureMapping Takes Kids — and Technology — Outside and into Active Learning A data-collection program brings real science to school -- and startles the professionals. By Diane Petersen an's work as a scientist began with a contradiction: "The scientists said that you can't find any horny toads here. And I said, 'My dad and
- [The Heart of Sustainability: Big Ideas from the Field of EE](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/2418) - Big Ideas from the field of Environmental Education and their Relationship to Sustainability Education — or — What’s love got to do with it? . . By Donald J. Burgess and Tracy Johannessen Introduction common raven suddenly begins to call from Cornwall Park. I rush to the front porch trying to see what the commotion
- [Leaning into Content with Lesson Sequencing](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/19054) - by Zachary Zimmerman Bainbridge Island, WA s an outdoor educator, I often get sucked into the false binary that lessons are either fun or informative, that content must be sweetened with games, stories, and activities like applesauce for children’s medicine. But stories are one of the oldest forms of teaching known to humankind, and games
- [Bird by Bird We Come to Know the Earth](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/19039) - by Emma Belanger As someone who comes from a low-income background and grew up in a semi-urban environment, birds were one of the first aspects of the more-than-human world that I felt truly connected to without having to obtain expensive gear, resources, or and a way to travel to a novel environment. When I looked
- [Asking Questions](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/18992) - Key Considerations for Asking Questions as a Field-Based Science Instruction By Amos Pomp Introduction We do not ask [questions] in a vacuum; what we ask, how, and when are all related. – Bang et al., 2018 How can field-based science instructors be intentional with the questions we ask students? As a graduate student and field-based
- [ADHD in the Outdoors](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/18908) - Five 5th-grade students sit or stand facing a sunny pond surrounded by lush greenery, working on a writing task or exploring quietly. Photographed by Greyson Lee Background Music and Birdsong: ADHD in the Outdoors by Greyson Lee After several hours of watching my dad bounce around his home auto shop, channeling restless energy into relentless
- [Outdoor Education in the Schoolyard](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/1319) - by Julie Lancaster Last year, I left the OE world that I love so much and went back to school to get my teaching credential/MA Education. I felt that loving education as much as I do, it would be extremely beneficial to study it! Finding myself headed toward student teaching in the classroom, I kept
- [Empowering Female Voices](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/13653) - Brave with Braids Empowering young female voices By Jennifer Allen uthor Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s words have been echoing in my head recently; “We teach girls to shrink themselves, to make themselves smaller, we say to girls, ‘You can have ambition, but not too much.’ ‘You should aim to be successful, but not too successful,
- [Immersive Storytelling](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/14298) - Immersive Storytelling: A Reminder to Read to Your Students Outside By Hannah Levy Sitting amongst towering cedars as the sun treated us to the last bits of golden hour, our final field study day was coming to a close. We had a hard week, for many of my students, this was their first encounter with
- [Empathy and Environmental Education](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/13641) - The Compassionate Educator: Empathy and Environmental Education Tom Stonehocker common challenge in environmental education is working with students who feel disconnected from their environment. This disconnection not only impedes a student’s ability to understand how natural systems function, it also affects how they value the natural world. This is caused not necessarily from lack of
- [Trees as Storytellers](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/15188) - he thought of talking trees conjures up images of the fantastical. Tolkien’s ents patrol the forest, Baum’s forest of fighting trees throws apples at Dorothy, and Marvel’s Groot guards the galaxy. Or, perhaps, we think of those who speak for the trees that cannot speak for themselves: Dr. Seuss’s Lorax, or the dryads of ancient
- [Land Acknowledgement Resource Cards](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/16880) - A New Tool: Land Acknowledgment Resource Cards (LARC) by Grace Crowley-Thomas Throughout Canada, New Zealand, and parts of the United States, educators and leaders are engaging in a practice called “land acknowledgment.” Generally, this is a practice that is meant to recognize and pay respects to the Indigenous people first who inhabited and stewarded the
- [Lessons from IslandWood](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/14179) - Adventure Hike to a Harbor: Creating a space for all to engage with marine science By Julia Glassy I am currently a graduate student of University of Washington over on Bainbridge Island, WA at IslandWood, a non-profit outdoor education center. I am passionate about adventuring outdoors and marine science education. Interacting with the marine ecosystem
- [Lessons for teaching in the environment and community-9](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/4230) - "Lessons for Teaching in the Environment and Community" is a regular series that explores how teachers can gain the confidence to go into the world outside of their classrooms for a substantial piece of their curricula. Part 9: Digging Through the Brambles by Jim Martin, CLEARING guest writer t last writing, I’d decided to
- [Leaving Space for Awe](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/9028) - We need to provide opportunities for students to establish connections with the natural world, to be in awe of its power and beauty. t was February 2012 in northwestern Ontario. I was in teachers college and my outdoor, environmental education cohort was on a winter camping trip. Cold winds blew outside, but inside of
- [Earth Tales and Activities](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/10802) - The Power of Storytelling: Earth Tales and Activities Show the Way for Living in Balance by Michael J. Caduto ©2014 All Rights Reserved From Siberia to the tip of South America, and from Africa to Polynesia, stories have grown from the very Earth upon which they were first told. Through these tales, the natural
- [Why Garden in School (Part 2)](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/11417) - Can School Gardening Help Save Civilization? (An Essay in Four Parts) by Carter D. Latendresse The Catlin Gabel School Portland, Oregon Abstract This paper is an argument for gardening in schools, focusing on two months of integrated English-history sixth grade curriculum that explores the relationships between a number of current environmental problems—notably hunger, water
- [Why Garden in School (Part 1)](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/10889) - Can School Gardening Help Save Civilization? (An Essay in Four Parts) by Carter D. Latendresse The Catlin Gabel School Abstract This paper is an argument for gardening in schools, focusing on two months of integrated English-history sixth grade curriculum that explores the relationships between a number of current environmental problems—notably hunger, water scarcity, topsoil
- [EE and Language Arts: The Hunger Games and the Nature of Rebellion](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/11790) - The Hunger Games and the Nature of Rebellion By Natalie Gillis In my nature explorations, I’ve always been fascinated not just with identifying the species I encounter, but with digging deeper and learning their backstories. There are many stories behind the plants and animals that fill our landscapes. Sometimes they’re hidden in history, myths and
- [How Big is Science? Can I Discover its Dimensions?](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/11357) - How Big is Science? Can I Discover its Dimensions? There is great beauty in thoughts well conceived and clearly expressed. This is science, when it is skillfully done. by Jim Martin CLEARING Associate Editor (Photo by Jim Martin also!) When I first taught high school science, I assumed that published curricula would provide reliable instruction
- [Blog: Science, Art, and English Education](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/13707) - What is the Place of Science in Art and English Education? by Jim Martin CLEARING Special Contributor School districts have, over the past four decades, reduced their arts offerings in order to meet increased demands for time devoted to science, mathematics, social studies, and English language arts. As a consequence, time devoted to the Arts
- [Fall 2018 EE Resources](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/17035) - [et_pb_section][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text] https://clearingmagazine.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/F18Resources.pdf [/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][/et_pb_section]
- [Bringing Home the Data: The Jane Goodall Environmental Middle School](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/2915) - Bringing Home the Data: The Jane Goodall Environmental Middle School by Mike Weddle The Jane Goodall Environmental Middle School (JGEMS) is a public charter school located within Waldo Middle School in Salem, Oregon. The ten-year old school has an enrollment of 90 students in grades six to eight. JGEMS students have classes in all subject
- [Teachers discover authentic lessons in crayfish and caddis flies](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/6264) - Teachers discover authentic lessons in crayfish and caddis flies What is that bug? Teachers Kathryn Davis from Hood River High School, Molly Charnes from the Academy of International Studies in Woodburn and Thomas McGregor from The Phoenix School in Roseburg work at identifying aquatic insects during a workshop in Philomath. (Photo: Lee Sherman)By Lee Sherman
- [Next Generation Science Standards:](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/9280) - Should they direct students’ educations, or would they be better applied to teachers’ educations? by Jim Martin CLEARING Associate Editor icture this: Science teachers with a strong background in doing science, working in a collegial environment, building their own independent curricula. Will they do a better job than those who, working alone in their classrooms,
- [Bringing Nature Back to the Schoolyard](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/17000) - by Jane Tesner Kleiner, RLA Imagine walking out the back door of your school, surrounded by the songs of spring time birds, the soft scents of flowers in bloom, the wind billowing through nearby trees, and (if you are lucky) the croaking of Pacific tree frogs. Sounds great? But… it doesn’t sound like
- [Tips for bringing students into the field:  Strategies for success](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/11874) - Tips for bringing students into the field: Strategies for success By Joshua Klaus Director of Academic Programs, Ecology Project International (EPI) aking students into the field can provide an endless array of occasions to learn new skills, see theoretical concepts enacted, make connections, and learn about the world around us. Given the endless
- [Book Review: Place-based Education](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/13803) - Enlivening Students by Gregory A. Smith Review of Sarah Anderson’s, Bringing School to Life: Place-Based Education across the Curriculum (Lanham, Massachusetts: Rowman & Littlefield, 2017) or the past two decades, books and articles written by place- and community-based advocates have been largely focused on defining and justifying an alternative approach to teaching and
- [Ripples in the Pond: Building Deeper Conceptual Understandings in Science](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/10433) - Teaching Science: Ripples in the Pond: Building Deeper Conceptual Understandings in Science by Jim Martin CLEARING Associate Editor Flat, circular and smooth, the rock spat at the clean surface of the water, twisted slightly on its axis, and flew again. Dark and light, concentric lines speed outwards from its landing place. The rock's path becomes
- [Helping Teachers Gain Competencies in a Technological Age](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/10891) - Helping Teachers Gain Competencies in a Technological Age Is Active Learning, Learning? by Jim Martin Because active learning requires practice and feedback on thinking like an expert (a scientist), it demands considerably greater subject expertise by the teacher. . . . [A problem that] will remain until college science teaching improves to the point that
- [Why Garden in School? (Part 4)](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/11538) - Can School Gardening Help Save Civilization? (An Essay in Four Parts) by Carter D. Latendresse The Catlin Gabel School Abstract This paper is an argument for gardening in schools, focusing on two months of integrated English-history sixth grade curriculum that explores the relationships between a number of current environmental problems—notably hunger, water scarcity, topsoil loss,
- [Jim Martin: Is Science Communication?](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/11684) - Is Science Communication? Can students, moving around and talking, do science? by Jim Martin CLEARING Associate Editor You’re trying to answer a question. Student work groups have designed their own investigations to understand the question, develop inquiries to investigate what they have found and thought about, then present their findings to the other work groups
- [Marine/Aquatic Education: Nudibranch Population Dynamics](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/13784) - The search for sea slugs Linking non-divers to the excitement of ocean discovery by Elise Pletcher Citizen Science and Volunteer Coordinator The Marine Science and Technology Center Highline College he Nudibranch Team is a citizen science volunteer program at the Marine Science and Technology Center of Highline College. Volunteers work with Aquarium Staff to record
- [Food Waste and Climate Change](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/16559) - PEI Offers Food Waste and Climate Change Storyline Workshop for Teachers Despite being one of the wealthiest countries in the world, the United States is also one of the most wasteful. America holds the dubious distinction of throwing away more food than every other nation except Australia, an average of a pound per person each
- [Ear to the Ground: Interviews with PNW Environmental Educators](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/17812) - Robert Steelquist, Coastal Explorer, Environmental Educator (2021) Jane Tesner Kleiner (2021) Greening the Schoolgrounds Gary Dorr (Standing Red Bear) (2018) Reclaiming a Culture through the Traditional Canoe Monica Nissen (2015) 2015 Environmental Educator of the Year (CBEEN) Ryan Monger (2016) Sultan WA High School Science Teacher Rus Higley (2016) 2016 Marine Education Classroom Teacher
- [The Value of Creative Teaching - Art and Environmental Education](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/13201) - 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 future generations for the environmental challenges they’ll face ahead. That is, climate change, natural resource competition, ocean
- [All You Need is Love](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/14123) - Four Lessons in Global Education from the Beatles By Sean Gaillard, June 19, 2017 Editor's note: Sean Gaillard, principal of Lexington Middle School in Lexington, North Carolina, is a huge proponent of international collaboration for students in his school. In this essay he shares lessons in global education connections from an unlikely source: The Beatles.
- [An Educator's Guide to Stewardship](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/15174) - An Educator's Guide to Stewardship by Breanna Caruso Click on the title to view PDF version of article.
- [EE Activities K-12](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/16672) - EE Activities F17EE Activities F17 K-12 Environmental Education Activities Here are some ideas, separated into grade levels and subject areas, that you can use to instill environmental learning when you are looking for something to fill a gap in your activity plan. GRADES K-2 Science Animal Ingenuity Explore how animal use materials from the environment
- [Ear to the Ground: Jane Tesner Kleiner](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/16869) - Jane Tesner Kleiner is a Registered Landscape Architect (RLA), ecologist and environmental educator with over 25 years of experience in design, project management and program coordination. She loves working with schools and communitiy partners to create spaces and programs to get kids outside, connecting with nature. Tell us a little about yourself. How did you
- [Literacy as a Stepping Stone to Environmental Citizenship](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/404) - “The librarian tells me that there have been skirmishes over books, especially on topics we’ve been discussing in class. She and the librarian see this as a problem but not me. I see small steps towards victory with my class. The interest [in Environmental Literacy] is ‘kindled’ and I hope to have a ‘forest fire’
- [Lessons for teaching in the environment and community — 20](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/5252) - "Lessons for Teaching in the Environment and Community" is a regular series that explores how teachers can gain the confidence to go into the world outside of their classrooms for a substantial piece of their curricula. Part 20: Beginning at the Beginning . by Jim Martin, CLEARING guest writer n the last blog, we looked
- [Lessons for teaching in the environment and community -2](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/17968) - Photo courtesy of Jane Goodall Environmental Middle School “Lessons for Teaching in the Environment and Community” is a regular series that explores how teachers can gain the confidence to go into the world outside of their classrooms for a substantial piece of their curricula. Part 2: Developing Capacity by Jim Martin, CLEARING guest writer “And
- [Lessons for teaching in the environment and community - 3](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/17975) - Photo by Jim Martin “Lessons for Teaching in the Environment and Community” is a regular series that explores how teachers can gain the confidence to go into the world outside of their classrooms for a substantial piece of their curricula. Part 3: Emergent phenomena by Jim Martin, CLEARING guest writer If you go to
- [The Judgment of the Barnacles](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/16974) - There’s a song in the sea for those who listen, and messages in the sand for those with far reaching eyes. By Dr. Gloria Snively and Doug Wonnacott The morning silently creeps in upon the gray, green waves. Smooth flat rocks that tumbled together for a thousand years moan and groan against the shore.
- [Lessons for teaching in the environment and community — 23](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/5463) - "Lessons for Teaching in the Environment and Community" is a regular series that explores how teachers can gain the confidence to go into the world outside of their classrooms for a substantial piece of their curricula. Part 23: Notice is a Powerful Verb: Noticing something in your environment entrains your creative powers by Jim Martin,
- [Lessons for teaching in the environment and community — 22](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/5430) - "Lessons for Teaching in the Environment and Community" is a regular series that explores how teachers can gain the confidence to go into the world outside of their classrooms for a substantial piece of their curricula. Part 22: Use It All Why settle for simple recall of facts? by Jim Martin, CLEARING guest writer We
- [Lessons for teaching in the environment and community — 19](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/5235) - "Lessons for Teaching in the Environment and Community" is a regular series that explores how teachers can gain the confidence to go into the world outside of their classrooms for a substantial piece of their curricula. Part 19: Walking Backwards May Get You There Working backwards is a good way to nail down understandings. It's
- [Lessons for teaching in the environment and community — 18](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/5121) - "Lessons for Teaching in the Environment and Community" is a regular series that explores how teachers can gain the confidence to go into the world outside of their classrooms for a substantial piece of their curricula. Part 18: Starting at the Top Stand the hierarchy of cognitive functions on its head by Jim Martin, CLEARING
- [Lessons for teaching in the environment and community - 17](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/4994) - "Lessons for Teaching in the Environment and Community" is a regular series that explores how teachers can gain the confidence to go into the world outside of their classrooms for a substantial piece of their curricula. Part 17: Discovery of Students as Persons Students, engaged, empower teachers; a first step toward Community and Environment Based
- [Lessons for teaching in the environment and community-4](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/3654) - "Lessons for Teaching in the Environment and Community" is a regular series that explores how teachers can gain the confidence to go into the world outside of their classrooms for a substantial piece of their curricula. Part 4: Inquiry An Introduction to the World of Discovery.... by Jim Martin, CLEARING guest writer "We carry with
- [Lessons for teaching in the environment and community - 16](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/4957) - "Lessons for Teaching in the Environment and Community" is a regular series that explores how teachers can gain the confidence to go into the world outside of their classrooms for a substantial piece of their curricula. Part 16: Effective Work Groups When you know them, they will change your world by Jim Martin, CLEARING guest
- [Finding Lessons In the World Around Us: Bringing the Pieces Together](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/11449) - Were You Assigned A Class You Have No Background or Preparation to Teach? by Jim Martin CLEARING Associate Editor ne year, I worked with a middle-school mathematics teacher who decided to engage his class in some work on a wetland and lake bordering a large river. He did this partly as a diversion from
- [Developing Questioning Strategies: Learning to become a science teacher](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/2850) - “All anyone really needs is a coal bin and a friend.” By Jim Martin A storm of children, shouts, swirling bodies, and dust swept me out of the yard. Up the street, neighborhood kids whirled around some coal bins between two wartime shipyard houses. I can see and hear them now, the kids, a bicycle,
- [Lessons for teaching in the environment and community - 5](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/3771) - "Lessons for Teaching in the Environment and Community" is a regular series that explores how teachers can gain the confidence to go into the world outside of their classrooms for a substantial piece of their curricula. Part 5: Questions are Compasses by Jim Martin, CLEARING guest writer The more things are spoken about, The less
- [Lessons for teaching in the environment and community - 6](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/3956) - "Lessons for Teaching in the Environment and Community" is a regular series that explores how teachers can gain the confidence to go into the world outside of their classrooms for a substantial piece of their curricula. Part 6: The Easy Part by Jim Martin, CLEARING guest writer e've been exploring science inquiry, starting with doing
- [Lessons for teaching in the environment and community - 7](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/4052) - "Lessons for Teaching in the Environment and Community" is a regular series that explores how teachers can gain the confidence to go into the world outside of their classrooms for a substantial piece of their curricula. Part 7: From Hand to Mind Concrete experiences generate learning for understanding by Jim Martin, CLEARING guest writer
- [Lessons for teaching in the environment and community - 8](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/4205) - "Lessons for Teaching in the Environment and Community" is a regular series that explores how teachers can gain the confidence to go into the world outside of their classrooms for a substantial piece of their curricula. Part 8: Where is Curriculum? by Jim Martin, CLEARING guest writer We’ve been talking about our ‘Locus of
- [Lessons for teaching in the environment and community - 10](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/4291) - "Lessons for Teaching in the Environment and Community" is a regular series that explores how teachers can gain the confidence to go into the world outside of their classrooms for a substantial piece of their curricula. Part 10: Assimilation When the world outside becomes the world inside by Jim Martin, CLEARING guest writer tarting in
- [Lessons for teaching in the environment and community - 12](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/4672) - "Lessons for Teaching in the Environment and Community" is a regular series that explores how teachers can gain the confidence to go into the world outside of their classrooms for a substantial piece of their curricula. Part 12: Flirting with Danger What happens when things seem to go wrong by Jim Martin, CLEARING guest writer
- [Ear to the Ground: Gary Dorr](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/14163) - Native Voices: Reclaiming a Culture through the Traditional Canoe Interview with Gary Dorr (In conjunction with Blooming Culture: The Canoe as a Vessel for Exploring Cultures) Gary Dorr is a member of the Nez Perce Tribe and Chairman of The River Warrior Society. Members of the fourth-grade crew interviewed him about his involvement in the
- [Confronting a World of Wounds:](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/16572) - Aldo Leopold famously wrote,"One of the penalties of an ecological education is that one lives alone in a world of wounds." As environmental educators, we must ask ourselves what we are giving our students that equips them to deal with this harsh reality. by Nick Engelfried (2017) It hurts to love nature in the twenty-first
- [Mind the Gap: How Environmental Education Can Step Forward to Address the STEM Achievement Gap](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/17464) - Environmental Education is a broad field encompassing nature centers, school forests, outdoor education facilities, state and national parks among others. This diversity of organization type allows for wide engagement by the public and holds great potential for addressing achievement gaps in the formal education system. by Robert Justin Hougham, Ph.D, Isabelle Herde, Tempestt Morgan, Joey
- [Combining the Strengths of Adventure Learning and Place Based Education](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/12239) - Combining the Strengths of Adventure Learning and Place-based Education How re-conceptualizing the role of technology in place-based education enhances place responsive pedagogies through technology. by R. Justin Hougham, Karla C. Bradley Eitel and Brant G. Miller University of Idaho Technology in Place-based Environmental Education In the 21st century, students need to be able to communicate
- [Embracing the Unfamiliar Through Adventurous Eating with an Equity Lens](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/14370) - Embracing the Unfamiliar Through Adventurous Eating with an Equity Lens By Caroline Bargo Adventure Awaits As I began exploring the IslandWood campus in August it became abundantly clear that the garden would be one of my favorite places here on the 255-acres available to us to teach. As a graduate student at IslandWood’s Education for
- [Digging Deeper](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/12465) - by David A. Greenwood, Lakehead University, Canada As part of the 2009 North American Association of Environmental Education Research Symposium, this article addresses the cultural and theoretical frameworks that we bring to environmental education, the web of ideas and experiences that define the scope and purpose of the work in its geopolitical context. Originally
- [Place-based Education](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/13535) - The Time is Now for Place Based Education Schools are not just training grounds for children to learn content and job skills for twelve or more years before they are allowed back into broader society, ready to pursue their own individual enrichment. In the place-based education vision, schools and students become an integral part of
- [Making Outdoor Education More Accessible](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/16925) - Effective Practices For Night Hike By: Grace Werner The mainstream outdoor industry, as it exists today, is a blanket of whiteness that ignores sacred stories, crucial histories, and traditional knowledge of black and brown people (Brown, 2019). This truth is something I was only partially aware of in my time as an Instructor at Widjiwagan.
- [Learning in an authentic, meaningful, interdisciplinary environment](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/16935) - A Year in the Watershed There is no doubt that if you want to get students truly excited about what they are learning, ask them to tackle a real-world question or problem — ask them to solve something that is relevant to their lives. by Jean M. Wallace It is no surprise that children learn
- [Zoos and Aquariums to the Rescue](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/16859) - by Jon Biemer Zoos and aquariums help heal our planet. In addition to wonderful experiential and educational activities, many zoos and aquariums have committed themselves to species rescue and recovery. I am a student of strategies that can create a healthier future – Handprints. (See my Clearing article about Handprints.) My research has
- [Advice for White Environmentalists and Nature Educators](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/16855) - by Sprinavasa Brown I often hear White educators ask “What should I do?” expressing an earnest desire to move beyond talking about equity and inclusion to wanting action steps toward meaningful change. I will offer you my advice as a fellow educator. It is both a command and a powerful tool for individual and organizational
- [Integrated Teaching](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/13599) - Photo by Jim Martin Integrated Teaching: The Student-Directed Investigation by Jillian Whitehill s educators, our goal is to increase the growth of each of our students, foster their passion for learning, and best prepare our students for the real world. While there are many different pedagogies aimed at achieving these goals, I would argue that
- [E2E Grant Project Report - Alaska](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/13734) - E2E Grant Project Report Evaluate EE Programs for Systemic Change in Your Community How to improve the effectiveness of teacher professional development in environmental education By Cathy Rezabeck, Marilyn Sigman and Beverly Parsons illingham, Alaska is a rural community in western Alaska with about 2,400 residents, including a substantial population of Yup’ik Eskimos. It
- [Integration Can Help You Teach More Science and Environmental Education](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/16593) - Integration Can Help You Teach More Science and Environmental Education by Jim McDonald Central Michigan University The demands on classroom teachers to address a variety of different subjects during the day means that some things just get left out of the curriculum. Many schools have adopted an instructional approach with supports for students that teach
- [Advice for white environmentalists and nature educators](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/15272) - by Sprinavasa Brown I often hear White educators ask “What should I do?” expressing an earnest desire to move beyond talking about equity and inclusion to wanting action steps toward meaningful change. I will offer you my advice as a fellow educator. It is both a command and a powerful tool for individual and organizational
- [Violence, environmental violence, and pro-environmental action](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/15219) - Violence, environmental violence, and pro-environmental action Richard Kool Royal Roads University hile there are many tasks on the plate of any educator, there are two that, to me at least, really seem essential and that are often overlooked; these tasks are for the educator to both reveal things that might be hidden to the student
- [NGSS and Active Learning](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/13175) - Maria’s Eye: How do we empower it to engage and understand her world? by Jim Martin CLEARING writer and contributor f I could imagine the best possible classroom in the world, it would be one in which each student is empowered to look out into the world, see something which catches her attention, then know
- [Teacher Favorite Activity Ideas](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/12825) - Favorite EE Activity Ideas from PNW Educators Practical and proven environmental education activities for all grade levels and subject areas, shared by members of the EE community. What is your favorite? Nature Journal Kristen Clapper Bergsman My favorite EE resource is a hardback journal with blank pages ready to fill with observations and revelations.
- [Poetry and Science Education](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/16351) - 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, further research has many teachers advocating for STEM to evolve into
- [Earth Connections: Science Through the Seasons](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/14324) - Science Through the Seasons by Shea Scribner Oxbow Farm and Conservation Center Carnation WA igns of the shifting seasonal cycle are all around us. Children are especially keen to notice and appreciate the changing colors of leaves, frantic activities of squirrels, and blossoms slowly turning to fruits on apple trees, but how often do they
- [K-12 Activities: Monitoring Biological Diversity](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/1241) - K-12 Activity Ideas: Monitoring Biological Diversity by Roxine Hameister Developing a biodiversity monitoring project at your school can help students develop many skills in an integrated manner. Here are some simple ideas that you can use to get your students started. Children and teachers are being pulled in many directions. Children want to “learn by
- [Reclaiming Spaces](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/15269) - Providing opportunities for students of color to explore the outdoors and science careers Text and photos by Sprinavasa Brown recall the high school science teacher who doubted my capacity to succeed in advanced biology, the pre-med advisers who pointed my friend Dr. Kellianne Richardson and me away from their program and discouraged us from
- [Coyotes' Teachings: How to Cultivate Awareness and Natural Connections](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/2586) - by Lindsay Letitia Huettman I am out in the foggy, wet Pacific Northwest winter with my 10-12 year-old homeschoolers' program, heading to an amazing place we call Elk Meadows. As we cross the meadow, we stop for a word of thanksgiving about the day and send the kids to their Sit Spots. The instructors also
- [Wild Words: A guide to integrating creative writing into field-based education](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/1601) - 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 ago. I’ve heard it from my college students, patients at a mental health
- [Teaching Science](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/12415) - Why kids need ecology now! Teachers, as well as science majors and graduate students, need to understand the process of science. And they need to be able to argue it, discuss it, suggest novel perspectives, give and respond to criticism. Does our inservice education deliver this to us? Especially critiques of current practice? The Vision
- [Climate Scientists](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/14282) - On a sunny fall day in Oregon students are outdoors learning about the new citizen science observation site in their schoolyard. With a mix of 4th and 5th grade exuberance and the seriousness of adults they are taking on the mission of gathering basic data for a section of their school yard scientific study and
- [Science Inquiry in the Real World](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/5518) - Science Inquiry in the Real World by Jim Martin Retired Science Educator CLEARING Special Contributor f you’ve never done a self-directed inquiry, or don’t see a connection between inquiry in the real world, and the science you teach in the classroom, here are three inquiry sets that you can try. They are roughly organized to
- [Inquiry Learning: Asking Your Own Questions](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/6461) - When you make the finding yourself - even if you're the last person on Earth to see the light - you'll never forget it. -Carl Sagan by Jim Martin Science Educator and CLEARING guest writer oing out into the world beyond the classroom for science and other curricula can be confusing. I clearly remember the
- [Jim Martin on Science Inquiry](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/13292) - Can We Learn What Science Inquiry Does For Us? What To Teach; And How? by Jim Martin n a previous blog, a student, Maria, noticed a salmon fry darting toward a rock covered with periphyton, a thin colony of algae which supports microbes and invertebrates living in it. Her eye lit up as she
- [Climate Change](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/14348) - A Chance to Make a Difference: Tackling Climate Change in a Middle School Classroom by Angela Duke Northwest Expedition Academy Hayden, Idaho n the days of selfies and social media mania, it is often a difficult job getting middle schoolers to look up instead of down. When I first introduced the topic of climate
- [What Can I Do Monday Morning?](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/13262) - 50+ Simple EE Activities Across the K-12 Curriculum GRADES K-2 SCIENCE Back to the Earth Display food items such as a boiled egg, apple, peanut butter, bread, jelly, strip of bacon, etc. Pictures can be used. Ask students to identify the food items you have on display. As the students respond, ask them
- [Urban Schools and Environmental Education](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/12699) - Urban Schools and Environment Education by Alison Swain IslandWood Graduate Student/ Field Instructor his past fall, an IslandWood instructor gave me the advice that a teacher can only take her students from the place they are coming from. Through weeks of teaching environmental education to students from public and private elementary schools across the Seattle
- [Eco-Art: How to Flow Upstream](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/13593) - 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 road with a glowing
- [Forest Schools and the Benefits of Unstructured Outdoor Play](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/8520) - Forest Schools and the Benefits of Unstructured Outdoor Play By Deanna Fahey Miami University, Oxford, Ohio t is snowing outside and you’re getting your child ready to go to kindergarten. While other children may be wishing for a snow day so they can play in the snow, yours is excited to go to school! Why
- [Learning Eco-Literacy (Lessons from an Orca Grandmother)](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/5622) - by Sally Hodson, Ed.D. author of Granny's Clan, published by Dawn Publications . Part 1: Thinking in Webs . lanet Earth is home whether you’re a plant, an animal or a human. Our Earth is the only place in the universe we know for sure that can support life. So how do we prepare
- [Will You Teach Science Better If You Have Done Science?](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/9071) - By Jim Martin CLEARING Associate Editor hat if science teachers did science before they began teaching? Might a teaching model like this be possible to employ? Instructive to explore? There have been initiatives which followed up on this possibility. Their results were encouraging, but never replaced learning about science in publishers’ materials via college
- [Integrating Place-based Learning](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/12600) - Wenatchee School District’s Case Study of Science Field Experiences by Susan Ballinger and Karen Rutherford his year (2005) in the shrub-steppe eco-region of rural Eastern Washington, over 3600 elementary students, teachers, and adult volunteers will spend a wonderful day of adventure and learning outdoors, at a science field experience. Kindergarteners pound leaf chlorophyll into
- [Reaching Out with Respect: EE with Underserved Communities](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/6801) - Reaching out with Respect: Environmental Education with Underserved Communities Thinking about environmental education and underserved communities is an opportunity to challenge our assumptions about nature, culture and science, and, our assumptions about the life experiences of people of different backgrounds and cultures. . by Bonnie Sachetello-Sawyer and Shamu Fenyvesi (from The Best of CLEARING) Read
- [When you empower students, you teach more than content](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/8509) - by Jim Martin CLEARING Associate Editor e left the teacher we have been following as she was planning a project she and her class will do on a creek at the edge of the school property. What she is doing, as well as her plans, appear to approach what the National Board for Professional Teaching
- [Schools Gone Green](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/11836) - Schools Gone Green Get inspired by these four Portland-area schools that are doing more than their part to save the planet. “What makes me most excited about Oregon Green Schools is hearing from the students about their progress. I appreciate that we are preparing kids for the rest of their lives. Resource conservation is not just a
- [Gertschen Interview: Charles Saylan talks about the failure of environmental education](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/3601) - Interview by Chris Gertschen Charles Saylan is co-founder and executive director of the California-based Ocean Conservation Society. He co-authored with Daniel Blumstein, a biology professor at the University of California-Los Angeles, “The Failure of Environmental Education (And How We Can Fix It)”. CG: You have written about environmental responsibility as a goal of environmental education.
- [Gertschen Interview: Wendy Francis - Working to Make a Difference](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/3389) - Interview by Chris Gertschen Wendy Francis, Program Director, has been involved with Y2Y (Yellowstone to Yukon) since its inception. She chaired the board from 2003-2005 and was interim Executive Director in 2002-2003. Educated in law and biology, Wendy previously held positions as Director of Conservation and Science at Ontario Nature, Interim Executive Director at the
- [Learning about waterways and First Nation ways](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/3378) - by Sarah E. Smith from A Newsletter of the Salish Coastal Gathering An innovative education program is introducing Squamish First Nation kids and their non-Native classmates to the richness of plant and animal life along the waterways of their lush corner of Coast Salish territory in British Columbia. Last school year, 500 children in 24
- [Ear to the Ground - Mike Town: Passionate about environmental education](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/3253) - CLEARING interview by Jackie Wilson Mike Town earned two bachelor’s degrees and a master’s degree from Huxley College of the Environment, Western Washington University and the University of Washington. From 1985 to 2010, Mike taught numerous science courses at Redmond High School including a very successful Advanced Placement Environmental Science program, which over the course
- [Gertschen Interview: Talking about conservation and education with Lance Craighead](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/3215) - Interview by Chris Gertschen Lance Craighead is the Executive Director of the Craighead Institute, an applied science and research organization that builds conservation solutions for people and wildlife in changing landscapes. Its mission is to maintain healthy populations of native plants, wildlife, and people as part of sustainable, functioning ecosystems. Since its founding by renowned
- [Gertschen Interview:   Jason Wilmot on conservation and building community](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/3304) - Interview by Chris Gertschen Jason Wilmot is executive director of the Northern Rockies Conservation Cooperative. Jason was raised in Montana and South Dakota. He obtained a bachelor’s degree in Geography from the University of Montana and a Master of Environmental Management from the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. Jason spent over 10 years
- [Moving Backwards Into the Twenty-first Century](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/1549) - by Charles Rubin Duquesne University I want to start with a central problem that I see facing environmental education efforts, that can be seen from two fact sheets provided by the EPA environmental education website. The two fact sheets are "Environmental Education Advances Quality Education;" and "Environmental Education Improves Our Everyday Lives." Now, the salient
- [Sustainability and Relationships: Learning from the STAR School](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/2996) - by Gregory A. Smith Lewis & Clark College, Portland, Oregon As news stories about global climate change, the peaking of oil production, or the threat of major water shortages appear more frequently in the mainstream press, it is not surprising that concerns about the long-term sustainability of institutions associated with industrial civilization have become common.
- [Outdoor Education is Boring](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/3094) - by Tony Deis TrackersPDX Remember when Outdoor Education was chopping wood, ghost stories, building log cabins, lighting fires and fishing? Nowadays it's playing nature games, parroting sanitized and co-opted indigenous lore, taking water quality samples and sitting in a sit spot like you're eating your vegetables. We've devolved from great acts that require great competency
- ["Meet a Tree" is Boring](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/2460) - Do you know meet a tree? The exercise where you blindfold one kid and their buddy leads them to a tree. Then, after the blindfolded is removed, the child goes and finds their tree. Yawn.
- [Cool School Challenge – Students Take Action!](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/2317) - The Cool School Challenge engages schools from all across the country in strategies to reduce CO2 emissions by Katie Fleming, Rhonda Hunter & Kimberly Cline Extreme weather events, rising sea levels, melting glaciers – oh my! While climate change is an overwhelming issue, there is certainly hope, especially in the collective power of individual actions
- [Tillamook and 'citizen science'](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/2302) - Exploring Place-based Education Programs in the Pacific Northwest by Becs Boyd On 8th May I meet Ed Armstrong, grant writer for Tillamook School District, outside Tillamook High School in north-west Oregon. I'm here to find out about the amazing work Ed and others have been doing in connecting the six schools in the Tillamook School
- [Teaching the 3 R’s Through the 3 C’s: Connecting The Curriculum And Community](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/2066) - Teaching the 3 R's Through the 3 C's: Connecting the Curriculum and Community By Clifford E. Knapp The exploration of the educational potential of communities through direct experiences is not a new idea. In 1912 naturalist, John Burroughs, wrote: “. . . The way of knowledge of Nature is the way of love and enjoyment,
- [The Case for the Earth](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/2166) - We need new strategies to preserve the habitability of the planet. by David Orr TRADING STORIES one day about smart animals, I heard from an old farmer who described a wily fox that appeared at the edge of a clearing in which his dog was tethered to a pole in the yard. Inferring from the
- [The Nature and Purpose of Education](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/2178) - by Maurice Holt In her celebrated The Classic Italian Cookbook, Marcella Hazan wrote: “What people do with food is an act that reveals how they construe the world.” At the time — 30 years ago — it was a sentiment that needed a word of explanation; the Japanese meal respects aesthetics, the French
- [10 Reasons To Try  Distance Delivered  Environmental Education](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/2006) - by Sandi Sturm I recently attended a social event organized for adjunct faculty members of our university. Sitting across from me was a woman from the Environmental Studies program who openly denounced the use of technology. Begging to differ, I approached her during break to see just what the problems were. Her strong responses were
- [Storytelling in Science Education](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/1554) - 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 brings facts to life; it makes abstract
- [Works in Progress: Making the most of your environmental education opportunities](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/94) - Works in Progress: Making the most of your environmental education opportunities Sneak up on them, and they’ll learn. On their own. By Jim Martin How do you take care of all the background capacity building students need to make the most of environmental education field trips that they take during the school year? With tight
- [The future of CLEARING...?](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/1618) - By Gregory Smith, Associate Professor of Education Lewis and Clark College, Portland OR June 10, 2010 As conditions globally and in the Pacific Northwest worsen, it seems increasingly imperative that individuals and organizations concerned about environmental and social health find ways to achieve a higher level of collaboration than they have so far been able
- [Dying is Easy: Comedy in Environmental Education](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/1545) - 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 has often been looked down upon by environmental professionals. Many environmental scientists, advocates,
- [The Empire Strikes Out](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/1310) - by Kenny Ausubel For all the chatter about the Age of Information, we really seem to be entering the Age of Biology. We didn't invent nature. Nature invented us. Nature bats last, as the saying goes and, more importantly, it's her playing field. We would do well to learn at least some of the ground
- [Teaching about the Rainforest](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/1305) - Warren Marchioni, Frances Vandervoort, Frank Hinerman, Ann Stocker, and Judy Kemlitz - 1991 Woodrow Wilson Biology Institute Classroom Ideas * Try to germinate tropical plant seeds in the classroom and have students determine the best conditions for plant growth (high humidity and warm temperatures.) Either order seeds (see Resources) or have students save seeds from
- [How to Start an Environmental Group in Your School or Community](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/1317) - If you're starting from scratch, use these steps as a guide to create an environmental group in your school or community. If you're already part of a high school class or club that addresses environmental issues, consider joining National Wildlife Federation's Earth Tomorrow network to share ideas and successes with groups nationwide. Step 1: Do
- [Ear to the Ground - Saul Weisberg, North Cascades Institute](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/1262) - This interview is the first in a series that will be a regular feature in Clearing. Check back each month for a new interview with a leading environmental educator in the Pacific Northwest. Saul Weisberg is executive director and co-founder of North Cascades Institute. He is an ecologist, naturalist and writer who has explored the
- [Ear to the Ground - Ned Buckingham, Olympic Park Institute](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/1366) - What is your current job title? I am a Field Science Educator for the Olympic Park Institute. How did you get into this field? My educational background is in Biology and Secondary Education, and when I graduated from college, I just wasn't ready to teach in the classroom. I had an urge to be outside;
- [The Blessed Moment: Promise for Preparing Integrative Learners and Leaders](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/1446) - The symbolic act of learning and living sustainability in the future should intermingle the fabric of natural systems and human made social systems by Pramod Parajuli, Ph.D. Doctoral Program in Sustainability Education Prescott College Introduction The hundreds of thousands of initiatives of this blessed moment are not about the bread and butter, or just about
- [Winging Northward—A Shorebird’s Journey](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/982) - by Sandy Frost and Ben Swecker For many people, a trip to Alaska is the dream of a lifetime. Yet cost and logistics keep many people away. In 2002, a group of dedicated educators joined forces to make such a visit— if only a ‘virtual’ visit—a reality for thousands of children across the Western Hemisphere.
- [EE Activity Ideas K-12](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/1564) - Grades K-2 Science Flannel Beach Life Cut out pictures of intertidal animals from calendars or a cheap field guide. Laminate pictures and use stick-on velcro to turn them into flannel board creatures. (You can also purchase a set of flannel patterns from the Seattle Aquarium). Use the flannel board to introduce the intertidal animals. If
- [Activity: Imagine That!](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/1562) - By John Miller and Michelle Smith (reprinted from BugNet, the newsletter of the Montana EE Association) Introduction The traditional method for teaching students about ecosystems has consisted of lab specimens, worksheets, films, and lecture by the instructor. Absent from this approach are process-oriented, critical-thinking challenges along with meaningful field experience. This activity is used throughout
- [Higher Education’s Role in Creating a Sustainable World](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/1050) - by Carol Brodie There are over 4,000 institutions of post-secondary and higher education in the United States, with over 14 million students. In 1999, 2.3 million degrees were handed out. These technical schools, colleges, universities, and professional schools prepare the majority of the professionals who will work, teach, and live in our towns
- [Educating for Eco-Justice...in an Era of Ecological Uncertainty](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/313) - by Chet A. Bowers hat is ironic, even tragic for future generations, is that the various approaches to educational reform being advocated by politicians, parents, and professional educators in the United State do not take account of the rapid changes occurring in the Earth’s ecosystems. Equally tragic is that these approaches to reform, like an
- [Why Care About Pollinators?](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/778) - Many people think only of allergies when they hear the word pollen. But pollination — the transfer of pollen grains to fertilize the seed-producing ovaries of flowers — is an essential part of a healthy ecosystem. Pollinators play a significant role in the production of over 150 food crops in the United States — among
- [Teaching Teachers in a Learning Garden: Two Metaphors](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/1054) - by Veronica Gaylie University of British Columbia Introduction There are no larger fields than these, no worthier games than may here be played.grow wild according to thy nature...let the thunder rumble...take shelter under the cloud...Enjoy the land, but own it not. (Henry David Thoreau, From Walden) How does eco-centred teacher education promote ecological ideals
- [Preparing Teachers for Environmental Education](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/990) - Preparing Teachers for Environmental Education by Louise Conn Fleming Abstract: Our teacher education team at our university teaches the junior year methods and assessment to preservice middle grades teachers. Starting Spring 2003 we began using “The Projects” as part of methods instruction. In this paper I will review what educators say about how middle grades
- [Learning Through Place](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/395) - Using the local community as a starting point for teaching interdisciplinary concepts and connecting students to the real world. By Kim Stokely Sixteen years ago, after attending a workshop on science teaching, I was driving home over a mountain pass when I stopped and looked out over the mountain valley. I thought, “Look at this
- [Top Five Ways to Use EE to Achieve Your Education Goals](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/605) - By Judy Braus You’re a new teacher with a head full of ideas. You want to be innovative and effective — on the cutting edge of reform. You want your kids to be excited about learning. And you think the environment is an important, cross-cutting theme that will engage your students. But you’re a little
- [A Zoo is a Great Educational Tool](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/767) - by Rex Ettlin Education Program Coordinator Oregon Zoo First I have to tip my hat in apology to aquariums, wildlife parks and educational farms. Since I work in a zoo that’s what I can talk about. But the idea of a zoo as an effective educational tool applies equally well to all non-formal educational settings,
- [Humane Education for a Humane World](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/1223) - Humane education examines the challenges facing our planet, from human oppression and animal exploitation to materialism and ecological degradation. It explores how we might live with compassion and respect for everyone. by Zoe Weil In 1987, I offered several courses in a summer program for middle school students at the University of Pennsylvania. The courses
- [Place-Based Education: Learning to Be Where We Are](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/338) - Gregory A. Smith ONE OF THE PRIMARY STRENGTHS of place-based education is that it can adapt to the unique characteristics of particular places, and in this way it can help overcome the disjuncture between school and children's lives that is found in too many classrooms, Mr. Smith points out. LAST SUMMER I spent a morning
- [How livable is your neighborhood?](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/191) - Students Use Real World Data to Make ‘Green Maps’ of their Community by Todd Burley Homewaters Project, Seattle “Green Mapping connected Cleveland's students to their community by opening up their eyes to the environmental benefits and detriments around them. It gave the students a sense of ownership, pride, and responsibility. The culminating presentation at City
- [What were we thinking? (Putting on a watershed festival)](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/68) - by Sharon Morse It doesn’t look like much. A big dirt parking lot filled with boat trailers. Then the magic starts. This is the tenth year for Tsalila (sa-Lee-la), the celebration of salmon and the Umpqua River in southern Oregon. Over 60,000 people have participated in this hands-on learning experience. Thinking about doing a large
- [Grades K-2: Sustainability](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/351) - “The frog does not drink up the pond in which it lives” - Indian Proverb Science - How do Plants Help Soil? Take two large baking pans (about 12 x 6 in.). Place bare soil in one pan and line the other with grass sod. Place the pans at a 20 - 25 degree slant
- [Global Issues – Global Opportunities: Population, Poverty, Consumption, Conflict, and the Environment](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/979) - Global Issues – Global Opportunities: Population, Poverty, Consumption, Conflict, and the Environment by Gilda Wheeler Abstract: This article discusses the important role of educators in helping students understand, connect to, and act on critical global issues facing us today and in the future. Global issues impact social, environmental, economic, health, and security concerns. Global issues
- [You are Brilliant and the Earth is hiring](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/771) - By Paul Hawken From a commencement speech given at the University of Portland, May 3, 2009. When I was invited to give this speech, I was asked if I could give a simple short talk that was “direct, naked, taut, honest, passionate, lean, shivering, startling, and graceful.” No pressure there. Let’s begin with the startling
- [Review: The Wonder of Wetlands](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/201) - Review by Sam Lyman (and Kris Eacker) WOW!: The Wonders Of Wetlands: An Educator’s Guide By Environmental Concern Inc. and The Watercourse, Bozeman, MT Published by Environmental Concern Inc., St. Michaels, MD, 2003, 348 p. ISBN: 1-883226-07-4 POW!: The Planning of Wetlands: An Educator’s Guide By Karen Ripple & Edgar Garbisch Published by Environmental Concern
- [Review: Getting to Know Tarantulas](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/81) - Clearing's Children's Literature Consultant looks at three books that help students learn more about and understand these often misunderstood creatures.
- [Grades K-8: Watersheds](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/213) - Crumple Your Own Watershed by Erica Ritter Make your own three-dimensional map, and use it to explore how flowing water defines the areas of land we call "watersheds." This activity provides opportunities for creativity and for meaningful discussion, a great combination for engaging students. You can have each student make their own, or have groups
- [Why Garden in School (Part 3)](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/11479) - Can School Gardening Help Save Civilization? (An Essay in Four Parts) by Carter D. Latendresse The Catlin Gabel School Abstract This paper is an argument for gardening in schools, focusing on two months of integrated English-history sixth grade curriculum that explores the relationships between a number of current environmental problems—notably hunger, water scarcity, topsoil loss,
- [Greening the Language Arts](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/11590) - 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 Given the titles most often studied in secondary literature classes, one could infer that critical
- [Earth Day](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/11811) - Although this article was written in 1996, and contains references to events and people from that era, much of Weilbacher's critique remains relevant today. -Ed. Every Day is NOT Earth Day Reflections on the True Meaning of Earth Day by Mike Weilbacher 'll admit it up front: I'm a sucker for Earth Day. I'm
- [Educating About Water](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/11797) - Brightwater: An Opportunity for Connection by Cynthia Thomashow he Metro bus opens its doors, releasing 40 fourth-graders who have ridden an hour from South Seattle to the Brightwater Water Treatment Center in Woodinville, Washington. “We’re in the wilderness!” squeals one of the young boys. To his credit, the landscape is very different from his urban
- [Bird Language](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/11668) - Creating the Need to Pay Attention Field trips and adventures in the woods are tremendously important experiences for children, especially those students that don’t often get to spend time in a natural setting. Some of the most important, lasting results of good Environmental Education are the heartfelt connections that young people make with nature. They
- [Teaching Science Inquiry](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/11858) - Can I become a science inquiry facilitator? . . . If I’ve never been one? by Jim Martin What do I need to be competent in, comfortable with, being a facilitator instead of a top-down teacher? I think a first thing is the recognition that people can learn on their own; that they don’t need
- [Environmental Justice and Urban E.E.](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/11762) - How Environmental Education Can Address Issues of Environmental Justice in Urban Settings by Anjelique Hjarding, Alicia King and Belinda Chin HIGHLIGHTS • Environmental injustice occurs when the most vulnerable, poor, minority or underserved populations carry the greatest burden of environmental risk by living in “undesirable” areas. • Environmental education can provide an opportunity to connect
- [Girls in Engineering and Marine Science](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/11832) - Girls in Engineering and Marine Science (GEMS) by Marie Kowalski Reprinted from Oregon Coast STEM Hub blog A team with their light trap On April 16th, twenty-seven young women arrived at Hatfield Marine Science Center, excited for two sunny days of science and engineering. The Oregon Coast STEM Hub hosted this highly engaging program
- [Environmental Education: The Science of Learning and Doing](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/12149) - Environmental Education: The Science of Learning and Doing by Cecelia Bosma Trinity Lutheran School Litchfield, Arizona e live on a planet with limited resources that are often consumed without caution. Finding ways to engage students in pro-environmental behaviors that conserve these limited resources rather than take them for granted is a priority for
- [Teach a School to Garden...](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/12168) - Teach a School to Garden… by Brandi Mendenall Central High School Springfield, Missouri s I watched the dump truck unload what would be the first of three loads of the highest quality compost our small school club could afford, I could not help but wonder if we really understood the scale of the project we
- [Citizenship Education](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/12286) - Seeking Environmental Maturity at Starker Forests Helping students climb the ladder to responsible citizenship by Richard Powell tarker Forests is a family-owned tree farming business of about 80,000 acres, mostly within an hour’s drive in the Coast Range west of Corvallis, OR. For many years, we’ve taken people on trips to the woods. These might
- [Ear to the Ground - Monica Nissen](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/12379) - An Interview with Monica Nissen 2015 Environmental Educator of the Year The Canadian Network for Environmental Education and Communication (EECOM) has named Monica Nissen as the 'Outstanding Environmental Education Non-profit Individual' for 2015. In addition, the Columbia Basin Environmental Education Network (CBEEN) has given her the 2015 Environmental Education Award of Excellence. Congratulations, Monica! A
- [Ear to the Ground - Ryan Monger, Sultan High School](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/12366) - An Interview with Ryan Monger Winner of 2015 EPA Presidential Award for Innovation in Environmental Education Ryan Monger, Sultan High School Sultan, Washington Ryan Monger, an environmental education teacher of students in grades 9 through 12 at Sultan High School in Sultan, Washington, uses this small, rural community as an outdoor classroom to encourage
- [4-H Urban-Rural Exchange](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/12544) - By being on the land and walking in the shoes of their host families, students begin to understand more deeply how and why Oregonians manage the land the way they do. By Maureen Hosty With contributions from Gary Delaney, Deb Schreiber, John Williams, Jed Smith and Shana Withee regon is a state of great socioeconomic
- [Human/Natural Systems Interactions](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/12585) - Human/Natural Systems Interactions: A Framework A critical thinking tool for developing ecological literacy throughout the curriculum compares cultures and their relationship to the natural world. by Barbara Jackson n this era of relentless consumption of non-renewable resources, there is a tremendous need for the teaching of ecological concepts, in as many ways and places
- [Jim Martin on NGSS](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/12582) - Active Learning: Is this something our pre-service education equips us for? ’m interested in the Resource section on the New Generation Science Standards (NGSS) web site (http://www.nextgenscience.org/resources). At the very end of the materials, there is a link to the Vision Framework table (http://www.nextgenscience.org/sites/ngss/files/15-041_Achieve_ScienceChartNewVision.pdf) which indicates where science education has been, and where it is
- [Permaculture Garden](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/12673) - Care for Self, Care for Others, Care for the Land: How Springwater Environmental Sciences School Uses Their Permaculture Garden as a Microcosm for the Environment. Kaci Rae Christopher t first, starting a school garden that combined permaculture and science seemed like a puzzle. How could I teach garden science classes while simultaneously producing large amounts
- [Wolverines, Wonder and Wilderness](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/205) - Wolverines, Wonder and Wilderness Why the Wolverine Matters to a Kid Who Has Never Seen a Raccoon by Megan McGinty IT IS APRIL AND I AM SITTING UNCOMFORTABLY on the cobbles of a gravel bar on the Skagit River in the North Cascades National Park with a group of local fifth graders, talking about the
- [Forget Your Botany!](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/12697) - by Jan van Boeckel MANY PEOPLE DEPLORE the loss of direct contact with nature. Moreover, this absence might be one of the root causes for the ecological crisis we are experiencing today, and for the mood of indifference that many people feel for it. It is hard to care for something that we no longer
- [NGSS and Environmental Education](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/12747) - Use the Real World to Integrate Your Curriculum In today’s test-driven schools, there’s little room for including the world outside the classroom in the curriculum, even though school is supposed to be based on the real world. And prepare us for it. by Jim Martin CLEARING Associate Editor his year I watched good classroom programs
- [Ethics and Science](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/12970) - Chymograph by Jim Martin· kymograph (‘wave writer’): a device that produces traces on a piece of smoked paper clamped onto a rotating drum, a mechanically amplified graphical representation of spatial position over time, such as the rise and fall of a worm’s blood vessel as pulses of blood travel through it. Invented by Carl Ludwig
- [10 Tips for Teachers](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/12948) - These tips, developed by The Straub Environmental Learning Center, may be helpful for teachers who are beginning to integrate a service learning component into the classroom: 1.Start small, and find other teachers who are interested in doing a community project. Support and collaboration are critical for success as you begin this work. 2. Use available
- [Restoration and Renewal](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/12929) - Environmental Learning Center: Restoration project heals environment, community and college Written by Shelly Parini, CCC senior executive project manager he Environmental Learning Center at Clackamas Community College (CCC) represents something different to everyone. Some see it as a place to stroll and commune with nature. Some see it as an outdoor learning laboratory. And
- [EE Questions and Actions](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/13545) - Critical Questions 1. What kinds of support are available in your school, district and community for supporting environmental educational activities? 2. In what ways can environmental education activities enhance learning? 3. What are the most effective strategies for integrating environmental education across all content areas? 4. In what ways do students, teachers and communities benefit
- [Understanding Ecosystems](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/13092) - Understanding Ecosystems is a Real Need: Will we help today's kids learn what they ought to know about ecosystems? by Jim Martin CLEARING Writer and Contributor ids in school today, and their children, need to understand ecosystems, and their own place within them. And teachers need to possess the capacity to ensure this can be
- [The Confluence Project (Idaho)](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/13145) - from the Fall 2016 Issue of CLEARING Integrating Watershed Science in High School Classrooms: The Confluence Project Approach by Audrey Squires, Jyoti Jennewein, and Mary Engels, with Dr. Brant Miller and Dr. Karla Eitel, University of Idaho It’s not just because I personally love snow and skiing and snowshoeing and all that. It’s not just
- [A Pedagogy for Ecology](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/13167) - A Pedagogy for Ecology by Ann Pelo s a teacher, I want to foster in children an ecological identity. I believe this identity, born in a particular place, opens children to a broader connection with the Earth; love for a specific place makes possible love for other places. An ecological identity allows us to experience
- [Jim Martin on Teacher Mentors](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/13345) - Why would a practicing teacher need a Mentor? Is the idea of mentoring teachers an unnecessary element in our Schools? by Jim Martin If you were to trace your ancestry 25,000 years or further, you'd find that your forebears read no books about the natural environment. Nor did they answer multiple choice test questions
- [My Favorite EE Activity - Margie B. Klein](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/13339) - By Margie Klein Retired Interpretive Naturalist Now doing environmental ed. and nature interpretation part-time at local public lands sites. She is also a writer and author of many articles in national magazines; co-author of a nation-wide curriculum; recipient of an award from a national professional society. ANIMAL TOTEM ACTIVITY Supplies - Animal totem cards
- [The Importance of Deep Experiences in Nature](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/13252) - The Importance of Deep Experiences in Nature By Joseph Cornell rofound moments with nature foster a true and vital understanding of our place in the world. I remember an experience I had as a five-year-old boy that awakened in me a life-long fascination for marshes, birds, and for a life lived wild and free. I
- [Ocean Plastic Pollution](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/13356) - Mitigating Microplastics Development and Evaluation of a Middle School Curriculum by Marie Kowalski and Tracy Crews ABSTRACT Microplastics are plastic marine debris less than five millimeters across. Microplastics are a threat to the health of our ocean. One important way to reduce microplastics in our ocean is to educate people about the issue, particularly
- [Of Education and Place](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/13515) - Everyone Ought to Have a Ditch "What gets lost, when we focus on facts, are the initiation experiences, the moments of transcendence when the borders between the natural world and ourselves break down." by David Sobel spend a lot of time these days talking with teachers, foundation directors, environmental educators, and evaluators about how
- [Climate Change Education](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/13374) - Climate Change Education: A Student's Perspective by Eliot Brody At my recent high school graduation, I found myself reflecting on the 12 years I spent in Oregon’s largest school district, Portland Public Schools. While I sat through the speeches in my oversized, wrinkly gown, I thought about all that I had learned in those
- [Environmental Education Activities K-12](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/13411) - Environmental Education Activities K-12 a potpourri of teaching ideas for the classroom GRADES K-2 Science Flannel Beach Life Cut out pictures of intertidal animals from calendars or a cheap field guide. Laminate pictures and use stick-on velcro to turn them into flannel board creatures. (You can also purchase a set of flannel patterns
- [Jim Martin on Inquiry](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/13584) - Is active learning an effective vehicle to train science inquiry mentors? Walking along with you is far better than telling you "I’ll show you the way." ow should we prepare mentors of teachers who wish to learn how to engage their students in authentic science inquiry, to provide what they will need for the work
- [Forest Schools](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/13596) - When Water Speaks: The Power of the Forest School Movement by Amanda Crawford issouri is a treasure trove of outdoor places and wild spaces dedicated to adventurers of all kinds. The natural brilliance of the Missouri landscape is no secret. And yet, unbeknownst to many, tucked away in the heart of West County, a forest
- [Connecting to the Natural World - Biome Bonanza!](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/13457) - A Biome Bonanza! After taking a class for teachers about sustainability several years ago, my teaching partner and I were inspired to get kids out and about and connected to the natural world more. We looked at our science curriculum and with the help of Bob Carlson and his staff at our district’s CREST Center,
- [Environmental Handprints](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/13601) - Environmental Educators Create Handprints by Jon Biemer he Handprint is a paradigm whose time has come. The Handprint motivates by focusing on the positive ways to think about sustainability and follow through with appropriate action. Over the past decade, the Handprint emerged independently in several places. India’s Center for Environmental Education (CEE) adopted
- [Reframing Sustainability](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/13613) - Reframing Sustainability Peter Denton, Ph.D. Keynote Address - EECOM Conference 2016, International Peace Gardens peaking here today is kind of like preaching to the choir. It is great to have a friendly crowd who does not think a polar icecap is the name of some new cold drink at Tim Horton’s or need to be
- [Blog: Teacher Preparation](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/13773) - Know and Do What We Teach: How many times are we assigned to teach a subject we know little about? by Jim Martin CLEARING Special Contributor t a riparian ecology training for teachers a few years ago, I met two who epitomize a perennial problem in education in America. One of the teachers was in
- [Outdoor Learning](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/13946) - NatureBridge Takes the Classroom Outdoors: Inspires Teachers and Students Through Discovery by Karen West for NatureBridge “The future will belong to the nature smart… the more high-tech we become, the more nature we need.” – Richard Louv, author of “Last Child in the Woods, Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder’’ Jeff Glaser stood
- [Why Environmental Educators Shouldn't Give Up Hope](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/14300) - Photo by Jim Martin Why Environmental Educators Shouldn’t Give Up Hope by Jacob Rodenburg I’m trying hard not to get discouraged. Being an environmental educator in today’s world feels like you are asked to stop a rushing river armed only with a teaspoon. There are so many issues to be worried about—from climate change to
- [Lessons of Discovery: Teaching and learning along with your students](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/1433) - Innovative tools allow a teacher to extend class activities on stream ecology and forest history by Charles Graham I have made an interesting observation about teaching recently. Some of the best lessons are not necessarily the carefully planned and orchestrated units, but rather the ones that grew and took shape as the project progressed. I
- [Sustainability and Schools: Educating for Interconnection, Adaptability, and Resilience](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/1468) - Sustainability and Schools: Educating for Interconnection, Adaptability, and Resilience by Greg Smith In my home state of Oregon it’s impossible to pick up the daily paper and not encounter some article that deals with concerns about environmental or social sustainability. With climate change, dramatically increasing energy costs, economic instability, and growing worries about the availability
- [Review: Ten-Minute Field Trips](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/92) - A Teacher's Guide to Using the Schoolgrounds for Environmental Studies Review courtesy of Fletcher Brown, University of Montana Author unknown Environmental education for children growing up in urban areas is often limited to a single trip to a forest preserve or state park. The hidden message behind such field trips is that the environment must
- [Q and A: Michael Becker Talks About Hood River Middle School Outdoor Classroom](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/1403) - CLEARING: What have been the most difficult issues in getting this project started? Michael Becker: One of the Permaculture Design Method principles is to start small, and I highly advocate for starting with small projects that you can have initial success with. Trying to get space is often a hurdle, and if you can show
- [Engaging Students in their Community: Hood River Middle School Outdoor Classroom Project](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/881) - Hood River Middle School Outdoor Classroom Project The Outdoor Classroom Project is a work in progress where students are the researchers, engineers, designers, architects, builders, and users of a multidisciplinary, multi-sensory learning experience. What you see when you approach the schoolgrounds at Hood River Middle School is nothing short of remarkable. From solar panels on
- [Lessons for teaching in the environment and community — 21](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/5343) - "Lessons for Teaching in the Environment and Community" is a regular series that explores how teachers can gain the confidence to go into the world outside of their classrooms for a substantial piece of their curricula. Part 21: Where Brains Learn Some cognitive particulars about learning in the real world by Jim Martin, CLEARING guest
- [My Passion](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/5553) - by Bobbie Snead Straub Environmental Learning Center he male osprey swoops down to join his mate on the enormous stick nest in Minto Brown Park. Sixty yards away, the third graders from a local elementary school gasp and clap in delight. I've taught them about ospreys in their classroom and now they're getting to see
- [Learning Eco-Literacy (Lessons from an Orca Grandmother) Pt. 2](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/5717) - by Sally Hodson, Ed.D. author of Granny's Clan, published by Dawn Publications See Part 1 of this series. . Part 2: Asking Questions ow do we prepare young people for the 21st century challenge of caring for our planet so that it can sustain future generations of plants, animals and humans? In short, how do
- [Tree Journals and ONE place](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/5973) - by Harmony Roll, Clearing Regional Advisory Panel from Taiga Teacher The turn around point on my regular running trail in Kodiak. hen I had my 3rd and 4th grade multi-age classroom in Fairbanks, I was in teacher paradise. I was in a Title 1 school, but was given a lot of freedom and autonomy to
- [Do It Yourself First: Leading Student-Directed Inquiry](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/6055) - Do It Yourself First: Leading Student-Directed Inquiry by Jim Martin CLEARING guest writer f you’ve never taken your elementary, middle, or secondary students out of the classroom to learn, and can’t find a helpful mentor or workshop, it’s okay to learn to use the real world to generate curricula and teach for understanding rather than
- [The Power of Fun](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/6309) - By Carol Malnor courtesy of Dawn Publications . “Your class sure looked happy,” one of my colleagues remarked last week. And I agreed! They were very happy. When the sun reappeared after a cold spell, I took my Nature Connections students outside for an activity that I was sure would be fun for them. I’m
- [The Urban-Rural Exchange Bridges Oregon’s Greatest Divide](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/6377) - The Urban-Rural Exchange Bridges Oregon's Greatest Divide By Judy Scott From Oregon's Agricultural Progress Wallowa County in northeast Oregon was the destination for one of this year’s four exchanges. The young guests from the city arrived in the thick of calving season, a dynamic leap into ranch life. Photo by Lynn Ketchum. ix lanes of
- [Earth Day and Beyond: K-12 Activities for Rivers and Streams](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/1539) - The following activities were submitted by K-12 teachers from around the Pacific Northwest who have participated in watershed education programs in their classrooms. The majority of these teachers were involved in the following coordinated watershed education programs: the Yakima Basin Environmental Education Program, the Bainridge Island Watershed Watch Program, the Nisqually River Education Project, the
- [Teach the student who lives within the body](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/6607) - Photo credit: Sarah Sullivan, Abernethy School, Portland by Jim Martin Clearing Associate Editor he last time we met, students had planted seeds in parts of a garden plot they chose. So, where do they go now? They’ve made their decisions about where to plant each of their seeds. As the seeds sprout and grow, are
- [What is School?](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/6924) - Teaching how to involve and invest students in their education and empower them as persons isn’t a passive set of knowledge, skills, and understandings. Rather, it is an active, dynamic process, not as easy to teach, at least within the current education paradigm. by Jim Martin CLEARING Associate Editor hat is school? Everyone has a
- [Stepping into the Real World – What happens when you open the door](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/6990) - [et_pb_section][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text] Stepping into the Real World – What happens when you open the door by Jim Martin, CLEARING Associate Editor Let’s explore what science and environmental education could look like if we were to use the real world as if it were an authentic source of curriculum, and a place to start our work.
- [Details, Details, Details...](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/7134) - Details, details, details... The degree to which you can elaborate detail determines the level of confidence you’ll have in teaching curricula which begins in the real world by Jim Martin CLEARING Associate Editor ust as the degree with which they elaborate the ecological details of the compost communities students study delineates the levels at which
- [Laaqudax, the Northern Fur Seal: an Integrated Approach to Education on the Pribilof Islands](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/7940) - by Lisa Hiruki-Raring AFSC Education Coordinator Alaska Fisheries Science Center National Marine Fisheries Service, NOAA n a small group of islands in the middle of Alaska’s Bering Sea, half of the world’s population of northern fur seals gathers each summer to breed on crowded rookeries, alive with the calls of mother fur seals, their pups,
- [EE Research: Give students a say in what and how they learn](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/8126) - Dr. Peter McInerney et al. review the literature related to the theoretical foundations of place-based education (PBE). They propose that the main task of PBE in schools is “creating opportunities for young people to learn about and care for the ecological and social wellbeing of the community they inhabit and the need to connect schools
- [How Embedding Your Curriculum in the Environment Meets Certification Criteria](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/8142) - by Jim Martin CLEARING Associate Editor teacher has made a commitment to design and execute a unit which explores the curriculum embedded in a small creek at the edge of her schoolyard. She didn’t just decide, then go; instead, she visited the creek, became familiar with its parts, then drew on some information she had
- [Ear to the Ground - Ralph Harrison, Science and Math Institute](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/8232) - Ralph Harrison is the 2013 winner of the EPA's Presidential Award for Innovation in Environmental Education. We caught up to him as he was heading for Alaska and managed to get some insight into his personal perspectives and motivations as a teacher of environmental science. What is your current job title? I’m the Science Department
- [Plants and People](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/8281) - Plants and People Three service learning teams from the University of Oregon Environmental Leadership Program tackle teaching children about the ecological and cultural importance of native plants. . . by Kathryn Lynch Environmental Leadership Program University of Oregon Read the article here:PlantsandPeople
- [Beehives Take Flight: “Honeybee Heroes” and apiary-based education in the Pacific Northwest](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/8365) - by Katie Boehnlein . n recent years, there has been an audible buzz, on both the community level and in the media, about the future of pollinators. In 2009, CLEARING asked you “Why Care About Pollinators?” and the issue is still hot today. The future of the honeybee is especially worrisome, due to their direct
- [Honeybee Heroes: Eric Engman at Mt. Vernon High School](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/8489) - by Katie Boehlein ric Engman is a physics teacher at Mt. Vernon High School, where he has also taken on the role of “campus beekeeper.” The process of starting a school beehive began some years ago, when Eric began installing a rotational series of mostly physics-related displays in his hallway. This was a project that
- [Honeybee Heroes: Ryan King at Southern Oregon University](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/8599) - An Alternative to Traditional Education Honeybee Heroes: Ryan King at Southern Oregon University by Katie Boehnlein outhern Oregon University in Ashland, OR is a “sweet” place to be. Ryan King, a recent graduate of Southern Oregon’s Master’s of Science in Environmental Education program, has just finished his thesis on apiary-based education, or the practice of
- [BOOK REVIEW: Three new nature titles from Dawn Publications](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/8666) - by Michael D. Barton CLEARING Associate Editor Dawn Publications (Facebook/Twitter/blog) has three new children’s nature books out for ages 3-8, and I am delighted to not only have copies for my children, but to share with you how awesome they are. This publisher does wonderfully how books about nature for kids should be done: entertaining,
- [Honeybee Heroes: Sarah Red-Laird at Bee Girl](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/8731) - by Katie Boehnlein arah Red-Laird, or “Bee Girl” is an Ashland, OR native who says that she has been fascinated with honeybees since her early childhood. On the playground in elementary school, she would pick up bees and pet them to impress other kids. Her aunt’s partner, a beekeeper, was also a major influence on
- [Honeybee Heroes: Carter Latendresse at Catlin Gabel School](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/8826) - Honeybee Heroes: Carter Latendresse at Catlin Gabel School by Katie Boehnlein arter Latendresse is the sixth grade English teacher at Catlin Gabel School in Portland, OR. In addition to his classroom courses, which focus on fostering social responsibility in his students through ancient and contemporary literature, Carter is also the Garden Coordinator at the school.
- [Teaching Climate Change (and other resources you should know about)](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/8911) - 1. Climate Change: Connections and Solutions Facing the Future offers this free two-week curriculum unit for middle school and high school which encourage students to think critically about climate change and collaborate to devise solutions. Students learn about climate change within a systems framework, examining interconnections among environmental, social, and economic issues. https://www.facingthefuture.org/Curriculum/PreviewandBuyCurriculum/tabid/550/List/1/CategoryID/16/Level/a/Default.aspx#.UmbDNBCRh8k 2. Climate
- [Embedded Curricula: Environments hold a treasure of effective curricula we can learn to teach](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/8938) - by Jim Martin CLEARING Associate Editor mbedded curricula. The curriculum that you can find just about anywhere you go: Fractions, transportation, velocity, acceleration, centrifugal force, metaphor, alliteration, poetry, drama, communities, transportation, and on. Topics we study in school, complete with real examples. Everywhere. We need to learn how to find it in natural places, and
- [5 Outstanding EE Resources You Should Know About](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/8988) - 1. Across the Spectrum: Resources for Environmental Educators This downloadable collection of resources, perspectives, and examples will help nonformal environmental educators learn more about the field of EE, access resources, and gain skills to improve their practice and, over time, build a community of practitioners to advance the field. The document covers the foundations of
- [Strategies for Community-based Education: Developing Healthy Partnerships](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/9056) - Strategies for Community-based Education: Developing Healthy Partnerships by Pat Willis Oregon State University 4-H Extension ommunity-based education is an approach to teaching and learning that connects learners to community and place. Educators who adopt this approach investigate local culture, natural features and resource issues, economic challenges and opportunities, and community governance. Students are often given
- [Natural Teachers: 10 Ways You Can Add Vitamin "N" to your Classroom & Beyond](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/9137) - NATURAL TEACHERS: 10 Ways You Can Add Vitamin "N" to your Classroom & Beyond. from the Children and Nature Network website http://blog.childrenandnature.org/2013/03/23/natural-teachers-10-ways-you-can-add-vitamin-n-to-your-classroom-beyond/
- [Building a Citizen Science Center: A Framework](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/9084) - by Shamin Graff Lake Katherin Nature Center & Botanic Garden Palos Heights, IL he sat quietly for several moments, watching and waiting. Suddenly, a streak of yellow flew by and then another. She quickly snapped a few photos on her phone as they flew off. Excitedly, she uploaded her photographs to iNaturalist, the first goldfinches
- [Indigenous Response to Global Climate Change](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/9154) - isdom of the Elders is developing a summer field science camp focused on environmental and climate change issues, and career pathway planning in STEM fields. The Wisdom Project is a youth leadership initiative for Native and low-income youth in the greater Portland area. Integrating best practices of K-12 curricula from EPA, NASA, NOAA and Portland’s Climate
- [The Fifth Annual Newport High School Senior WalkCreative Writing, Resources](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/8984) - The deal was: if we saw a bald eagle on the beach the morning of the fifth annual Newport High School Senior Walk, I, the teacher, would cancel the killer vocabulary final because the appearance of a bald eagle on a publicly-owned Oregon Coast beach always instills a mighty beneficence in me and I act
- [A Journey Of Surprises](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/1321) - Rivers reveal their secrets to Idaho students researching water quality through rigorous scientific inquiry Photos and story by Suzie Boss Squiggly blue lines cover the map of Idaho, a state with more than 2,000 lakes and hundreds of miles of rivers. From the perspective of veteran science teacher Bob Beckwith, all that water means that
- [Community-based Science Teaching: A Journey of the Mind?](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/9607) - By Jim Martin CLEARING Associate Editor he young woman carefully pours hydrogen peroxide into a graduated cylinder, presses a key on a computer keyboard, then measures ten drops of liver homogenate into the cylinder. The surface of the hydrogen peroxide seems to leap at the first drop of homogenate, then the drop begins to froth
- [Top 10 Benefits of Environmental Education](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/9787) - By Susan Toth in Educator Tips & Stories, PLT Blog Environmental education (EE) connects us to the world around us, teaching us about both natural and built environments. EE raises awareness of issues impacting the environment upon which we all depend, as well as actions we can take to improve and sustain it. Whether we
- [NOAA: Bridging art and science to protect salmon habitat](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/9815) - Balancing waterfront development with the needs of salmon is a continuous challenge that requires innovative thinking. To step outside the box, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the Pacific Northwest College of Arts formed a unique partnership. Art students challenged NOAA to develop new ways of communicating this complex environmental and societal issue;
- [from Edutopia: Place-Based Learning MEASURES Up](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/9920) - Successful educational projects that focus on the community share key characteristics. by James Lewicki During the last several years, I have worked with dozens of elementary, middle, and high schools that value place-based learning enough to shift curriculum priorities to seeing that students, as well as studying about the community in the classroom, learn in
- [Don't call it "Climate Change"](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/9978) - Barack Obama, scientists and campaigners have all looked at how to engage Americans more powerfully on the environment. Now researchers have come up with one critical piece of advice: do say "global warming", don't say "climate change". New research released on Tuesday found Americans care more deeply when the term "global warming" is used to
- [Environmental Literacy: What have students learned that is not on the test?](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/9986) - Environmental Literacy: What have students learned that is not on the test? by Janell Simpson and Susan Meyers reprinted from the North American Association for Environmental Education he intent of this article is to provide tools to the classroom teacher to document the impact of a formal environmental education program on the environmental literacy of
- [Using snowpack data for inquiry, graphing and analysis](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/10040) - Middle School Students Use Historic Snowpack Data to Gain Inquiry, Graphing and Analysis Experience by Joe Cameron Beaverton Middle School teacher What do you get when you mix researchers, teachers, authentic science opportunities and a group of GREAT people? You get three summers of intense work, reinvigorated teachers, new ideas for the classroom and
- [10 Questions to Ask When Developing Place-based Learning Experiences](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/9994) - 10 Questions to Ask When Developing Place-based Learning Experiences by Gregory Smith, Professor of Education, Lewis & Clark College he March 19, 2014 Oregonian included an article about two math teachers at Benson High School in Portland who have created a course they call Tech Geometry that requires students to apply their emerging mathematical understandings
- [Using litter-fall to study carbon cycling](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/10008) - The LitTER Project: A field method for using litter-fall to study carbon cycling by Lee Cain & Nick Baisley Astoria High School Science Department ABSTRACT During a NASA funded Teacher-Researcher Partnership program focused on bringing Global Warming and Climate Change into the classroom, a long-term ecological study was created to get students into the field
- [Starting a Community-based Natural Resource Education Program](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/10042) - Starting a Community-based Natural Resource Education Program Strategies for Authentic Community Engagement Authors Patrick Willis Oregon State University Extension 4-H Portland, Oregon Susan Cross Environmental Educator Tucson, Arizona lmost every school has a natural area very nearby. It could be that marshy place behind the school, the little stream or "ditch", the unmowed field, or
- [The Power of One](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/10044) - The Power of One by Michael J. Caduto You must be the change you wish to see in the world. — Mahatma Gandhi bout five years ago I started to plan for a new book for children, parents and teachers about global climate change. I soon found that there was no shortage of
- [Gardens Grow Minds: The School as Green Educator](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/10255) - Gardens Grow Minds: The School as Green Educator by Mary Quattlebaum “We have a garden! With flowers and butterflies!” The third graders beam as they describe their wildlife garden during my author visit to St. John the Baptist (SJB) School in Maryland. I thought about their enthusiasm and the dedicated teachers and parent volunteer,
- [Are economies the only things that expand and contract?](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/10383) - Are Economies the Only Things that Expand and Contract? Do we need to inject more time for contemplation into our curricula? by Jim Martin CLEARING Associate Editor Photo by Jim Martin Concentration and contemplation. Expand and contract. Walk drive. Makes life varied, interesting, doable. In school, the intensity of work in the field or lab
- [Listening To The Language of The Land and People](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/10425) - Place-based Education: Listening to the Language of the Land and the People By Clifford E. Knapp, Professor Emeritus, Northern Illinois University Introduction The intersection of place and education has occupied much of my teaching even though this field has not always been called place-based education. I began my career in 1961 as a high school
- [Using Links as Labs: First Green Connects Kids, Classrooms and Golf Courses](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/10450) - 2014 E3 Green Apple Award Winners Using Links as Labs: First Green Connects Kids, Classrooms and Golf Courses As the United States seeks to meet the rising need for graduates with STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) degrees, First Green is filling the gap with its innovative program of using golf courses as learning labs. First
- [Using Snowpack to Teach Climate Change](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/10486) - Climate Change Education SWEet!: Using Cascade Snowpack to Teach Climate Change by Padraic Quinn, Rachel Carson Environmental Middle School Padraic_Quinn@beaverton.k12.or.us Illustration by Bill Reiswig Three years ago I was given the opportunity to learn with the scientific leaders of climate change research as part of a teacher-research partnership through NASA, Oregon State University and the
- [Teaching and Learning Ecologically](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/10492) - Cultivating Ecological Teachers and Learners Using Project Learning Tree by Jaclyn Stallard from The Branch, Project Learning Tree's E-newsletter Summer 2014 "Ecological teaching and learning is not just a matter of pedagogy, but also philosophy. Ecological teaching and learning represents a new life-affirming mindset that all teachers—and, to a larger extent, all citizens and all
- [Teaching Stewardship Through Native Legend](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/969) - Teaching Stewardship Through Native Legend Abstract: This article provides the reader with a general background of Alaska Native education and resource conservation, focusing on southeast Alaska cultures. European contact severed these education models by creating government schools. Since then Alaska Natives have worked to balance Native culture with western education. A synopsis of several legends
- [EE Research Summary: Comparing the Philosophies of Muir and Leopold](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/10509) - Who's a Better Role Model: John Muir or Aldo Leopold? From Environmental Research Bulletin Nicole Ardoin and Jason Morris, Project Leaders THE RESEARCH: Goralnik, L., & Nelson, M. P. (2011). Framing a philosophy of environmental action: Aldo Leopold, John Muir, and the importance of community. The Journal of Environmental Education, 42(3), 181–192. In thinking about what
- [Share Your Standards to Integrate Your Teaching](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/10591) - Teaching Science: Share Your Standards to Integrate Your Teaching by Jim Martin CLEARING Associate Editor Let’s say you wish to incorporate an activity in the neighborhood of your school into a unit you are planning in science, and have been thinking about asking the math teacher if she would be interested in working with you.
- [EE Research: Writing Stories Builds Scientific Literacy](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/10609) - Writing Stories Builds Scientific Literacy From Environmental Research Bulletin Nicole Ardoin and Jason Morris, Project Leaders THE RESEARCH: Ritchie, S. M., Tomas, L., & Tones, M. (2011). Writing stories to enhance scientific literacy. International Journal of Science Education, 33(5), 685–707. International studies have uncovered an unfortunate trend: students are becoming less interested in science. Especially at
- [Students on the Road for Science](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/10619) - Students on the Road for Science For two weeks in July, seven Heritage University students and 11 high school students from White Swan and Yakima traveled more than 2,000 miles for a class that was one part field experience and one part cultural exchange. The course, People of the Big River, took the students on
- [How Teachers Are Learning About Place Through Service Learning](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/10680) - To view this article in .pdf format, click here: MyMcKenzie An environmental education professional development program using place-based service-learning by Kathryn Lynch University of Oregon Environmental Leadership Program here does your drinking water come from? It is a simple question, and given that humans can survive only a few days without water, a critical one. Yet,
- [Book Review: A Pedagogy of Place](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/10897) - What is Outside of Outdoor Education? Becoming Responsive to Other Places By David A. Greenwood A review of Wattchow, B. & Brown, M. (2011). A Pedagogy of Place: Outdoor Education for a Changing World. Clayton, Victoria: Monash University Press. As someone who follows the literature around place and education, and who is always curious to
- [Book Review: The Sixth Extinction](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/10895) - Reviewed by Mike Weilbacher The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History By Elizabeth Kolbert Henry Holt. 319 pp. $28 We inhabit an extraordinary planet overflowing with an abundance of life: massive coral reefs built by billions of tiny invertebrates, rain forests teeming with uncountable plants and animals, frogs and toads singing in vernal ponds, bats flitting
- [EE Research: Storytelling as a Tool for Young Learners](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/10893) - EE Research: Storytelling as a Tool for Young Learners Using storytelling is the best way to engage very young students from EE Research Bulletin Nicole Ardoin, Editor Research suggests that lasting attitudes toward nature and the environment form in the first few years of a child’s life; thus, instilling environmental awareness in very young children
- [How to Give Kids a Nature Experience to Remember](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/3361) - ne of my favorite nature quotations comes from the Japanese conservationist Tanaka Shozu who said, “The question of rivers is not a question of rivers, but of the human heart.” I wanted to touch the hearts of my middle school students with the beauty of nature as well as inspire them to take care of
- [Going Off Trail - New Paths in Programming to Connect Children With Nature](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/3432) - Courtesy of recmanagement.com By Kelli Anderson Five years ago, with the addition of new management at Tamarak Nature Center in Maplewood, Minn., programming for children and their families began to take the road less traveled. It began, in effect, to go off trail. "When Marcie, our new acting outdoor education supervisor, came on board, she
- [To all residential environmental educators: You are invited!](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/3543) - Straight Talk, Sound Ideas IslandWood is convening a conference for residential environmental educators in the Pacific Northwest! Meet new colleagues, make new connections and friends, get fresh ideas - get inspired! You can look forward to workshops, explorations and courageous conversations. To date we are planning sessions on cattail weaving, bat/owl "hunting," storytelling, linking learning
- [The Return of Salmon Watch](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/5691) - Salmon Watch is back by popular demand and coming soon to a stream near you! . by Lizanne Saunders . his Fall ten classes of middle and high school students in the Portland metropolitan area are participating in a revitalized Salmon Watch program sponsored this pilot year by the World Salmon Council, Bureau of Land
- [Seeking Environmental Maturity...](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/6785) - ...at Starker Forests Helping students climb the ladder to responsible citizenship by Dick Powell This past summer I attended the World Forestry Center's International Educator's Institute (IEI). As an environmental educator without any formal pedagogical or interpretive training, I found this week-long workshop enlightening and very worthwhile. The part of IEI that I found most
- [Fueling the Fire: North Cascade Institute's Path for Youth](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/8570) - Fueling the Fire: North Cascade Institute's Path for Youth by Mollie Behn t is no secret that today’s youth are increasingly disconnected from nature. As a result, youth are less aware of issues and threats facing the environment and how to address them. We need to develop active and motivated citizens who are capable of
- [Race, Class, Climate Change and Outdoor Education](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/537) - Race, Class, Climate Change and Outdoor Education By Jay Roberts A recent post on climate change and race (http://tinyurl.com/b6fzp7) brings up an issue that really needs to be on the forefront of outdoor and environmental education moving forward. It is becoming increasingly clear that climate change will become the defining issue of our times. Just
- [Students’ Lived Experience](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/10887) - Effective Education: Turning the Classroom Inside Out By Indira Dutt s a child at school I remember sitting in a stuffy portable looking out the window to the field and houses beyond. I felt constrained: my seat was attached to the desk, the classroom was just barely big enough to fit all of us, the
- [In Support of Outdoor School](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/10883) - In Support of Outdoor School By Merrill Watrous “I not only learned about ghost shrimp and how to catch them, I did catch them. I not only learned what a chitin was and where it lived, I went out to where it was and petted it. Almost everything (at Outdoor School) was one step ahead
- [Ecological Métissage: Exploring the Third Space in Outdoor and Environmental Education](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/10870) - Ecological Métissage: Exploring the Third Space in Outdoor and Environmental Education By Greg Lowan An increasing number of scholars, both Indigenousi and non-Indigenous, are asking, “Is it possible to blend Western and Indigenous North American ecological philosophies and knowledge?” Indeed, many scholars and educators, such as the late Nakoda Chief John Snow (1977–2005), suggest
- [Phenology Wheels: Earth Observation Where You Live](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/11376) - Phenology Wheels: Earth Observation Where You Live By Anne Forbes, Partners in Place, LLC This article originally appeared in Earthzine - http://earthzine.org/ . . aking a habit of Earth observation where you live is a fun and fundamental way to practice Earth stewardship. It is often our own observations close to home that keep us
- [Place-based Education](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/11509) - 15 Ways to Know You're Connected to a Place What Does "Connecting to a Place" Really Mean? By Cliff Knapp Environmental and place-based educators frequently refer to a goal they set for their students — connecting or reconnecting them to a place. What does this really mean? How will I know when my students are
- [Jim Martin: Do We Learn As Our Students Learn?](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/11516) - Do We Learn As Our Students Learn? by Jim Martin CLEARING Associate Editor We propose that an essential feature of learning is that it creates the zone of proximal development; that is, learning awakens a variety of internal developmental processes that are able to operate only when the child is interacting with people in his
- [Coastal Margin Science and Education](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/11624) - CMOP: The Best Environmental Education Program You've (Probably) Never Heard About . . Coastal Margin Science and Education in the Era of Collaboratories by Vanessa L. Green, Nievita Bueno Watts, Karen Wegner, Michael Thompson, Amy F. Johnson, Tawnya D. Peterson and António M. Baptista . nterdisciplinary science is needed to make big decisions when it
- [Sowing the Seeds of Community and Place-based Learning](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/3694) - Sowing the Seeds of Place and Community-based Learning by Becs Boyd Place and Community Based approach can be transformative for students and teachers, schools and communities. Making this approach work means taking a fresh look at the school community, the wider community and the environment, and working out how they can best support each other.
- [On Teaching Science](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/12139) - What's the Difference... ...between a single performer and an energetic band? Can students teach themselves? by Jim Martin CLEARING Master Teacher n an earlier set of blogs, we followed a middle school class whose science teacher had started them on a project to study a creek that flows at the edge of the school ground.
- [Environmental Leadership: Making Connections](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/12187) - Environmental Leadership: Making Connections Two service-learning programs within the Environmental Leadership Program at the University of Oregon aim to deepen students’ knowledge of their bioregion through day-long, hands-on field trips. By Kathryn A. Lynch, Environmental Leadership Program, University of Oregon hildren and young adults are often more tuned into the screens in front of them
- [Jim Martin: Arts and Humanities in the Sciences?](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/12231) - Arts and Humanities in the Sciences? Is that incongruous, or what? By Jim Martin Have you ever ‘felt’ the weather as cloud formations began to change? I love to watch Mares’ Tails form; multiple long extensions of a cumulus cloud that race out ahead, then turn up and curl back. They signal a change in
- [STEM - Joseph Gale Elementary](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/12328) - The Utility of Partnerships - Joseph Gale Elementary Because clean water is part of daily life and it’s readily available, we often take it for granted. It’s easy to see why local utilities, wastewater included, don’t always come to mind as educational partners. In fact, many utilities are eager to partner with schools and community
- [Place-based Learning: Community Mapping](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/12439) - Engaging Students With/in Place through Community Mapping By Susan Jagger University of Toronto This article was reprinted from Pathways - The Ontario Journal of Outdoor Education, Volume 26, Issue 3 ommunity mapping brings together local people as they celebrate local geography, ecosystems, and stories of place through created representations of their communities (Lydon, 2003; Perkins,
- [Transformative Power](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/12639) - The Transformative Power of Wilderness Education A graduate student finds an understanding of the effect of wilderness on the development of young people’s sense of self-worth by Rory Crowley n July 7th, 2001 I lie huddled in my sleeping bag, shivering as I survey the cloud of water vapor that floats above my head. It’s
- [Ear to the Ground - Rus Higley](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/13002) - An Interview with Rus Higley 2016 Marine Education Classroom Educator of the Year Rus Higley has worked as Manager at the Marine Science and Technology Center at Highline College since its opening in 2003. He was born in Alaska, but grew up in Des Moines and graduated from Western Washington University with a B.S. in
- [Classroom without walls](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/12993) - “Mr. D., that was the best science class I’ve ever had!” The trials and successes of a classroom without walls By Greg Derbyshire he above feedback, made by a grade 8 student, is one of many similar comments made to me by students and parents who recognize and appreciate the opportunities provided by outdoor experiential
- [Garden of Wisdom](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/13274) - News release submission for CLEARING Magazine - February 2017 The Garden of Wisdom A peace-building program among environmental educators and conservationists in the Middle East inspires children to love and nurture the natural world. Please help us to publish our first book, The Garden of Wisdom: Middle Eastern Stories for Environmental Stewardship. s professionals who
- [Outdoor Education Perspectives](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/13439) - Outdoor Education — Thoughts From an Elder by Dan Kriesberg uring college I was a waterfront director at a sleepaway camp and absolutely loved it. When my post college job search led me to residential outdoor education centers I was thrilled. It was summer camp all year round and it allowed me to follow
- [Suquamish Basket Marsh: Creating a Living Library](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/1416) - Traditional Ecological Knowledge The Suquamish Basket Marsh: Creating a Living Library An Outdoor Environmental Learning Classroom for the students of Suquamish Elementary School By Melinda West There is a Salish legend passed down by the First Peoples of the Pacific Northwest that explains the origin of the cedar tree and why it has been referred
- [Urban EE and Sense of Place](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/13610) - Urban Environmental Education and Developing a Sense of place Authors: Jennifer D. Adams, Brooklyn College, City University of New York, USA David A. Greenwood, Lakehead University, Canada Mitchell Thomashow, Philanthropy Northwest, USA Alex Russ, Cornell University, USA Highlights Sense of place—including place attachment and place meanings—can help people appreciate ecological aspects of cities. Sense
- [Journey to Understanding: Lessons from a Canoe Curriculum](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/13622) - Tribal teachers set out to help design an integrated curriculum around the canoes of Pacific Northwest Native American tribes. Article by Suzie Boss Click here to view article in PDF format: Canoe Curriculum PDF
- [Outdoor, Hands-on STEM Learning](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/13668) - Outdoor Learning in Shelton: A Surge of Hope by Eleanor Steinhagen Bayshore Preserve – Shelton, WA wo 7th graders have just tossed their pears into Johns Creek and are jogging downstream to see which one will cross the finish line first. Maneuvering around a large maple tree and jagged rocks on the stream’s bank,
- [Marine and Aquatic Education: Underwater Technology and ROVs](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/13720) - Engaging Students in Underwater Technology and ROVs by Jessica Lotz Education and Outreach Coordinator The Marine Science and Technology Center Highline College ften times it’s hard for us air breathers to really appreciate the depth and immensity of our ocean when we are standing at its surface. The deepest canyons and trenches are so massive
- [Art and the Environment](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/13826) - Getting to the HeART of Teaching Marine Conservation by Kerry Hynes “I don’t understand. This is too hard. Why are we learning this?” These are just a few of the phrases that I hear in my classroom that force me to stop, take a deep breath, and remind myself that, yes, I am going to
- [Connecting Art and Science](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/13926) - Making Science Engaging at Camp Connecting art and science helps students find STEM classes more engaging and enjoyable By Elli Korthuis is a youth development organization that focuses on helping members, ages 5-19 years, grow as individuals through their mastery of their passions, referred to as their spark. The more traditional 4-H program offers
- [E.E.'s Philosopher King (Pt 2)](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/14196) - Not One More Cute Project for the Kids: Neal Maine’s Educational Vision by Gregory A. Smith Lewis & Clark College, Professor Emeritus PART TWO (see Part One here) Sustaining Neal’s Place-Based Vision of Education: Lessons Learned Despite the power and attractiveness of these educational practices, few of them remain in evidence after the
- [E.E.'s Philosopher King](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/14168) - Not One More Cute Project for the Kids: Neal Maine’s Educational Vision by Gregory A. Smith Lewis & Clark College, Professor Emeritus PART ONE eal Maine, now in his late-70s is an iconic figure for many environmental educators in the state of Oregon. Early in his teaching career in Seaside, he decided to shelve
- [Native Voices: Reclaiming a Culture Through the Traditional Canoe](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/14229) - Native Voices: Reclaiming a Culture through the Traditional Canoe Interview with Nathan Piengkham (In conjunction with Blooming Culture: The Canoe as a Vessel for Exploring Cultures) Nathan Piengkham is a member of the Kalispel Tribe and the Executive Director of The River Warrior Society. Members of the fourth-grade crew interviewed him about his involvement in
- [Exploring Culture and Environment - Pt 1](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/14238) - Canoes and other forms of human powered watercraft have been utilized by human beings all around the world since time immemorial. For this reason, the study of canoes can serve as a gateway to analyze, compare and learn from the world’s cultures and the unique histories therein. However, our education systems struggle to
- [Perspectives: Educating as if Survival Matters](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/14367) - Educating as if Survival Matters Nancy M Trautmann Michael P Gilmore BioScience, Volume 68, Issue 5, 1 May 2018, Pages 324–326, https://doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biy026 Published: 22 March 2018 ver the past 40 years, environmental educators through­out the world have been aiming to motivate and empower students to work toward a sustainable future, but we are far from
- [Community-Based Education](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/1506) - The Colquitz Watershed Stewardship Education Project By Pam Murray Along the Cowichan River, surrounded by the smell of cottonwood resin, an elementary school student discovers that dragonfly larvae look like aliens. In a quiet wetland, a middle school teacher marvels as a guest expert shows his class how to fold cat-tails into duck shaped toys
- [Solar energy in the classroom](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/3347) - Understanding Electricity Through Photovoltaics from green levine on Vimeo. More Than a Metaphor Solar energy in the classroom by Jessica Levine Eckstein Middle School Seattle, Washington As a student of David Orr at Oberlin College I helped design the Adam Joseph Lewis Center (AJLC) for Environmental Studies. The building was designed to generate more energy
- [Connecting Kids and Caribou](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/156) - Connecting Kids and Caribou by Sue Steinacher, Alaska Dept. of Fish and Game Teenagers can be a tough audience to impress. The students from northwestern Alaska let it be known they'd seen plenty of caribou, and had been riding in boats and camping all their lives. So coming to a place called Onion Portage, downriver
- [Ear to the Ground - Sara Focht, Idaho Non-formal Environmental Educator of the Year](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/7351) - What is your current job title? I am a Conservation Educator at MK Nature Center for Idaho Department of Fish and Game. That means I teach classes at the Nature Center for about 10,000 students annually. Most of our crowd is prek-3rd graders. I do that ¾ time. My other job title for 1/4th of
- [Review: Winter is for the Birds, Literally](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/385) - Reviews by Patricia Richwine, Ph.D. As we, optimistically, raked the last leaves from our yard and started to prepare for winter, we brought the wrought iron plant hanger, which had until just recently held a flowering basket, closer to the house where we could hang our feeder and watch an assortment of birds that live
- [Paying Attention: Being a Naturalist and Searching for Patterns](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/3105) - By Saul Weisberg Executive Director North Cascades Institute (reprinted from The Best of CLEARING) I love knowing the names of things. It makes them familiar, like old friends. I also love to look at patterns in nature. Veins on the back of a vine maple leaf. The yellow and black scales on the wing of
- [Inquiry: Letting Kids Wonder](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/5268) - Inquiry: Letting Kids Wonder by Katie MacDiarmid (reprinted from the SEECing Natural Discovery website of the Siskiyou Environmental Education Center) cientific inquiry” is one of those things I thought I knew how to do. I had taught middle school science and I’d worked several seasons of outdoor science school. I loved doing experiments with kids
- [5 Ideas and Programs You Might Want to Know About](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/6728) - 1. Slow: Children at Nature Play This attention-catching sign is designed to raise awareness about the importance of connecting children to nature. The goal is to promote getting children outside and exploring nature similar to the neighborhood signs that ask drivers to slow down because children are playing. The sign can be placed in your
- [Burning  Issues: Integrating the Curriculum With a Fire Ecology Unit](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/1947) - Burning Issues: Integrating the Curriculum With a Fire Ecology Unit Two Idaho classroom teachers share their strategies for integrating fire into the curriculum and meeting state mandated learning goals. . . . . Fire is Elementary by Kathy Comstock The new school year is off to a blazing start in the fourth grade here at
- [EE Research: Using Inquiry-Based Activities to Teach Science](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/10664) - Using Inquiry-Based Activities to Teach Science from EE Research Bulletin THE RESEARCH: Tan, A.-L. & Wong, H.-M (2012) ‘Didn’t get expected answer, rectify it' — Teaching science content in an elementary science classroom using hands-on activities. International Journal of Science Education, 34(2), 197-222. A conflict inherent in teaching canonical science concepts in an inquiry-based framework
- [A Classroom Without Walls ](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/4509) - A Classroom Without Walls Deepening Children's Connection with Nature by Seth Webb Free Horizon Montessori School e each have an incredible gift: the ability to engage children with the world - indeed, the universe - that surrounds them and, of which, they are an integral part. Working with children, our job is one of
- [Knowing One Big Thing: The Role of the Nature Center in the Next Millennium](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/423) - Knowing One Big Thing: The Role of the Nature Center in the Next Millennium By Mike Weilbacher From The Best of Clearing, Volume V It’s a very rainy day in the middle of Aesop’s fables, and Hedgehog is stuck outside without a dry place to hide. He finds a den, but Fox already occupies it.
- [56 EE Activities You Can Do Today!](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/10798) - 50EEactivities
- [Re-thinking Trash](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/10653) - Re-thinking Trash with Students! Getting youth—and anyone—to reconsider their trash can be difficult, but that’s what Trash for Peace, a Portland-based nonprofit, does. The organization aims to help people reduce waste through functional art by using the items we consider trash to create recycling bins, planters, furniture and many other useful things. The group often
- [11 Great EE Resources for July](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/10405) - Special thanks to Phyllis Dermer and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) 1. Melinda Gray Ardia Environmental Foundation Grants K-12 teachers are invited to apply for grants to develop or implement environmental curricula that integrate hands-on ecology exercises into the classroom. To facilitate learning and student empowerment, environmental curricula should be holistic and strive
- [Connecting students and salmon in their watershed](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/105) - Connecting Students and Salmon in Their Watershed How rearing salmon in an elementary classroom can foster powerful teaching and learning in the content areas, environmental awareness, and good stewardship of the Earth By Daniel S. King, PhD My transition in January of last year to a new position teaching science, math, and technology to 5th
- [New from Dawn Publications: Forest Bright, Forest Night](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/10500) - Classify It!- Learn about animal classifications through a guided discussion of the book Forest Night, Forest Bright. http://dawnpub.com/activities/Classify_Activity.pdf
- [The Social Studies of Spirituality](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/3133) - The Social Studies of Spirituality By Kasey Christian IslandWood (photo from silouanthompson.net) Where are the boundaries between Social Studies, Science, and Spiritual beliefs? Where do these distinct practices intersect? How does a teacher model equal respect for each? As professional educators, how do we teach about intrinsically interdisciplinary (and sensitive) topics such as the basic
- [Oregon Environmental Literacy Plan: Building a Network](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/6260) - Oregon Environmental Literacy Plan: Building a Network by Traci Price In 2009, the Oregon Legislature passed the No Oregon Child Left Inside (NOCLI) Act that established an eleven-member task force charged with developing The Oregon Environmental Literacy Plan: Toward a Sustainable Future[1](OELP). The OELP, accepted by the Oregon Legislature in 2010, articulates a vision for
- [Beach Hoppers: Inquiry-based learning while having fun!](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/15) - Beach Hoppers: Inquiry-based learning while having fun! Field trips are exciting. Field trips incorporating inquiry-based learning and live animals are even better. by Stephanie Schroeder This second grade unit focuses on beach hoppers, tiny amphipods found on most sandy beaches. The first three lessons focus on learning beach hopper characteristics in the classroom and teaching
- [I Am Clark's Creek - Puyallup School District](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/5380) - I Am Clark's Creek - Puyallup School District ometimes it takes the imagination and inspiration of youth to push a project towards success. When the Puyallup River Watershed Council in Washington State became concerned about Clark’s Creek, it was the student project I am Clark’s Creek that sparked the community activism necessary to improve local
- [Nature Connection Pyramid](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/9601) - http://www.naturekidsinstitute.org/
- [Fire and Society: A Burning Issue](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/1930) - Record setting fires in Northwest forests in recent summers have made fire management a top priority of land managers. Students can use the debate to learn about forest ecosystems and public policy. by Valerie Vogrin Fire has been an important ecological process for thousands of years in Northwest woodlands. Fire has been responsible for the
- [Fire's Role in the Lives of People and the Forests of the Pacific Northwest](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/1958) - Activities for grade K-12 (Adapted from Fire in Pacific Northwest Ecosystems, Environmental Education Association of Oregon and Pacific Northwest Coordinating Group, 1997.) Compiled by Susan Duncan, Assistant Director of Environmental Education Washington Forest Protection Association Kindergarten Celebrating Fire Gather students into a sharing circle. Suggest that fire can be a useful tool. People of many
- [The Forests of Lewis & Clark:  Lessons from Dynamic Nature](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/1974) - by Jeremy Solin Standing next to a monstrous 300-year old Sitka spruce near Clark's Point of View on the Oregon coast, I try to imagine what the forests in this area were like when Captain Clark and crew passed through here in 1806. Many of us have romantic notions of the halcyon days of the
- [New Climate Change Awareness Toolkit](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/1009) - Helping to prepare youth to understand their role in addressing environmental issues is an important focus of Forest Service Conservation Education efforts. Environmental education begins with awareness, and builds to increased knowledge and skills. And the goal of environmental education is to lead to action. With this in mind, the Forest Service’s Conservation Education program,
- [Approaches to Environmental Education by Indigenous Cultures in North America](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/1098) - -From EETAP Resource Library, prepared by Joe E. Heimlich, Ph.D and Sabiha S. Daudi, GRA. April 1996 One of the major goals of environmental education is to prepare a citizenry capable of making informed choices and able to address its environmental concerns through positive actions. One way to achieve this is by encouraging sharing of
- [Resource: Ocean Currents](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/1203) - What causes ocean currents? What impact do they have on Earth’s environment? How have they influenced human history? This teaching guide for grades 5-8 provides 7 activities for students to explore the causes and impacts of ocean tides and gain an understanding of the influences of wind, temperature, salinity and density on ocean movement. Students
- [Shadow of the Salmon: Preparing students with 21st century skills (Book review)](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/3916) - Reviewed by Ella Inglebret and CHiXapkaid (D. Michael Pavel) The salmon serves as an indicator species reflecting the overall health of the natural environment in the Pacific Northwest. For Native American tribal members, the salmon has played a central role in sustaining communities both historically and in contemporary daily life. Based on the importance of
- [The Birds Are Out There](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/839) - by Lyanda Haupt Seattle Audubon Society Birds are everywhere. Their lives hold myriad ecological lessons, some obvious, some subtle. No matter where we live, or where we teach, there are birds to be found. They may not be wondrous, rare, or exotic. They may be an uninspired mix of starlings and pigeons. But they ARE
- [Rowing and the art of environmental education](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/298) - Engaging students in the marine sciences by Susie Vanderburg enny Ross, a N.A.M.E. teacher at Strawberry Vale Elementary in Victoria, BC, shared with us a creative and challenging way to engage students in the marine sciences. When Lenny was a middle school teacher, he developed a partnership with The Rowing Center, a waterfront business on
- [Place-based Education: Building Sustainable Communities](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/183) - By Kristina K. Sullivan “Knowledge of the nearest things should be acquired first, then that of those farther and farther off.” — Comenius, 17th C. educator (Dubel and Sobel, 2008) On the day of my twenty first birthday, I arrived in the small Appalachian town of Whitesburg, Kentucky (population 2,000) on a university field study.
- [Restoration Planting: What's the Rush?](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/860) - Couple some basic curriculum organizers with focused questioning strategies to make your restoration projects coherent and effective environmental education experiences. by Jim Martin Environmental education should be a journey, one which captures our interest and imagination and leaves us with the tools to become effective stewards of the place where we live and work. Does
- [Rivers and Streams Activities: Grades 3-5](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/6855) - Go back to main page How Do Other Animals Deal with Garbage? (3-5 Science) Students will discover how ants and other animals deal with waste materials they themselves have created. Split the students into groups that will each build an ant house, which will contain white sand and 2 cm3 of sugar solution. The houses
- [Rivers and Streams Activities: Grades K-2](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/6859) - Go back to main page Butterfly Math (K-2 Science) While teaching a unit on the butterfly lifecycle, have the students create original artwork showing floral scenes. Laminate and use these small butterfly gardens as fun work mats. Unifix cubes or small counters can be used as butterflies. Challenge students to solve addition or subtraction problems,
- [Gertschen Interview: Jon Marvel](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/4933) - Interview by Chris Gertschen Jon Marvel is the founder and executive director of the Western Watersheds Project. Mission The mission of Western Watersheds Project is to protect and restore western watersheds and wildlife through education, public policy initiatives and litigation. Western Watersheds Project is a non-profit conservation group founded in 1993 with 1400 members and
- [Without Leaving the Classroom](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/4038) - by Harmony Roll, Taiga Teacher ou don't need to be an environmental educator, you don't have to stray from traditional norms, or be on the cutting edge to incorporate place-based education into your daily practice as a teacher. The goal is to create connections, connections to what the learners already know about the world around
- [A place-based education discussion](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/2032) - The following is part 1 of an on-going discussion on place-based education topics between Gregory Smith of Lewis and Clark College and David Greenwood of Lakehead University in Thunder Bay, Ontario (formerly of Washington State University). You are invited to participate in this discussion and can add your comments through the reply box at the
- [Critiquing place-based education](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/2108) - Part two of an on-going discussion The following is part 2 of an on-going discussion on place-based education topics between Gregory Smith of Lewis and Clark College and David Greenwood of Lakehead University in Thunder Bay, Ontario (formerly of Washington State University). You are invited to participate in this discussion and can add your comments
- [Reassessing the value of place-based learning: an online discussion](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/2811) - The following is part of an on-line discussion between Greg Smith, Associate Professor at Lewis and Clark College in Portland, and David Greenwood, Associate Professor at Lakehead University in Thunder Bay, Ontario Canada. Dear David, I’ve been puzzling over an issue to raise with you for another blog entry, and I’ve found myself coming back
- [Climate Change, Youth and Hope: Debunking the Paradox](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/1759) - by Megan McGinty North Cascades Institute Last year we began a service-learning summer program for high school students focusing on climate change. The Climate Challenge program consisted of a summer residency in the North Cascades followed by a service project in which elementary-school students were taught by the returning high-school students back in their home
- [Planning and Evaluating Your Environmental Education Program](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/8840) - By Pamela Jull, PhD Applied Research Northwest t’s easy to get caught up in the excitement of planning the activities of an environmental education program. Programs are neat. They are often fun and innovative and they usually give participants a memorable, positive experience. Sometimes in the thrill of innovation, the concrete goals of a program
- [8 Ideas, Resources, or Programs You Should Know About](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/7173) - 1. National Geographic Education: Collections The National Geographic Education website has a number of collections dedicated to different areas within the natural sciences. Topics include ocean education, ecosystems, natural disasters, endangered species, and much more. Resources can be selected by grade, subject, type, and more. http://education.nationalgeographic.com/education/collections-topics/?ar_a=1 2. Melinda Gray Ardia Environmental Foundation Grants K-12 teachers
- [Grade 3-5 Activity: Animal Tracking](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/8747) - Grade Level: 3-5 Subject: Science Teacher: Nancy Fisher, Sauvie Island Academy Another powerful science lesson students do in my class is to ask ourselves, "Who might live in our habitat and how could we find out?" We brainstorm a list and then partners build an animal tracker: Take an old board (about 1 footlong and
- [Grade 6-8 Activity: Stormwater Wonders](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/8750) - These lessons were developed by the Bainbridge island Woodward Middle School 6th grade team in cooperation with the Bainbridge Island Watershed Watch program. Stormwater Wonders Background Storm water or runoff is defined as rainfall that falls on impervious surfaces (pavement, rooftops, street, and some lawns) and is routed to natural or artificial drainage systems.
- [Grade 3-5 Activity: Worms](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/8741) - Grade Level: 3-5 Subject: Teacher: Laurelei Primeau, Coquitlam School, BC It was a damp, sunny day, and my grade three class was called to the front lawn of the school for a school-wide portrait. Classes from kindergarten to grade five trooped out and jostled for places on the lawn. My third graders, however, were distracted.
- [Grade 3-5 Activity: Nature Observation](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/8737) - Grade Level: 3-5 Subject: Science Teacher: Nancy Fisher, Sauvie Island Academy Section off squares in an outdoor nature area. These can be a square foot or a few square feet, but not larger than that. Assign each student or pairs of students a section. Have them spend time observing, sketching, and, if possible, photographing what
- [Ear to the ground: Sue Staniforth, North Saanich, British Columbia](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/8352) - What is your current job title? I am self-employed as an environmental education and research consultant – my company is Staniforth & Associates, so I guess I am the principal! How did you get into this field? I worked as a field biologist for years, researching large mammals, particularly whales off the east coast, the
- [Share your favorite EE activity with us!](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/7339) - If you're a teacher, CLEARING would love to hear from you! We are compiling anecdotal examples of fun, engaging and successful environmental education activities from teachers around the Pacific Northwest. We are especially interested in teachable moments that sprang from creativity, inspiration, and special circumstances. If you have ever created, implemented, or participated in an
- [Gertschen Interview: Rick Johnson, Idaho Conservation League](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/4085) - Rick Johnson has served as executive director of the Idaho Conservation League for 16 years. ICL is Idaho’s leading voice for conservation. Interview by Chris Gertschen CG: Is there one particular event or series of events that led you to a profession in conservation? RJ: Yes, if you focus on the profession part. I got
- [Chris Gertschen talks with conservationists](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/3218) - by Chris Gertschen For the past three decades, I have been an activist, a volunteer, a student and a teacher of conservation. My activist years gave me an advocacy perspective but I quickly saw a great need to expand my own natural science education – to give some foundation and balance to my life and
- [The Art of Mentoring: Rekindling Appreciation of Nature](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/3117) - For the questioning mind, learning never concludes because it is an endless journey with an infinite number of destinations... by Chris Helander Head Instructor Coyote's Path Wilderness School (reprinted from The Best of CLEARING) There are many people who say our current model for learning is ineffectual. Parents and educators are asking "how do you
- [On Rain / A Poetic Confrontation](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/6966) - by Matt Love n a Thursday in late November 2010, a month that eventually produced the second wettest November since instruments have measured depressing records of this kind, I sat at my desk in my classroom and heard rain falling for the 31st day in a row. I immediately thought of one of Ken Kesey’s
- [Book Review: The Kids Outdoor Adventure Book](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/7391) - The Kids’ Outdoor Adventure Book: 448 Great Things to Do in Nature Before You Grow Up by Stacy Tornio and Ken Keffer (Guilford, CT: Falcon Guides, 2013), 224 pp. Reviewed by Michael D. Barton n an ideal world, kids would spend more time playing outside, in their neighborhoods, at local parks, and exploring natural areas
- [Book Review: On the Day You Were Born](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/7398) - On the Day You Were Born Author: Debra Frasier ISBN-13: 9780152579951 Reviewed by Seth Webb any of the stories that we tell our students and the cultural lessons that we share are our part of our collective oral tradition – they belong to all of us. They are of the Earth and we are of
- [Review: Ubiquitous: Celebrating Nature's Survivors](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/5104) - Reviewed by Seth Webb hile perusing my local library’s children’s section, I found a wonderful collection of playful poems, insightful science and glorious artwork. In Ubiquitous: Celebrating Nature’s Survivors, written by Joyce Sidman and illustrated by Beckie Prange, the reader is treated to an engrossing portfolio of fourteen success stories from the timeline of life.
- [Book Review: Companions in Wonder: Children and Adults Exploring Nature Together](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/5500) - Review by Michael Barton received this book to review earlier this year, and while wanting to post about it as soon as possible, I have restrained from mentioning it here until I was completely done reading it. Companions in Wonder: Children and Adults Exploring Nature Together, edited by Julie Dunlap and Stephen R. Kellert (Cambridge, MA:
- [River and Streams Activities: Grades 9-12](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/6843) - Go back to main page Mapping a Watershed (9-12 Science) Locate a local stream or river on a map, making sure that your map includes the entire watershed. Select a spot on the map as far downstream as possible for your starting point. Next, locate the upstream ends of all channels that flow into your
- [Rivers and Streams Activities: Grades 6-8](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/6850) - Go back to main page What Does Acid Rain Do to Aquatic Animals? (6-8 Science) Students will be able to discover the effects acid rain can have on aquatic wildlife. Set up two 10 gallon aquariums, each one with a variety of aquatic organisms (snails, caddisfly larva, damselfly larva, algae, etc.). Try to make the
- [UNEP Year Book 2013: Emerging Issues in our Global Environment](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/6810) - The 10th edition of the Year Book series from the United Nations Environment Programme focuses on rapid change in the Arctic which threaten ecosystems while providing new development opportunities, including easier access to oil and gas, minerals, and fisheries. Additional focus includes minimizing chemical risks, poaching in Africa, growing urban environmental challenges, and the accelerating
- [Learning is more than a classroom exercise](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/6780) - By Lee Sherman In Brief Whether identifying fish or monitoring water quality, students combine education with service through OSU's Oregon Natural Resources Education Program. Through partnerships with local watershed councils and other agencies, students are making a difference. Lifelong stewardship can begin as simply as a school project at a local stream. That's what happened
- [Learning Eco-Literacy (Lessons from an Orca Grandmother) Pt. 3](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/6316) - by Sally Hodson, Ed.D. author of Granny's Clan, published by Dawn Publications See Part 1 and Part 2 of this series. Part 3: Tell a Story How do we prepare young people for the 21st century challenge of caring for our planet so that it can sustain future generations of plants, animals and humans? In
- [6 Useful Ideas, Projects and Programs You Should Know About](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/6492) - 1. Ocean Science Summer Institute This institute, June 24-27, 2013 in Port Townsend, Washington, is a Training of Trainers for both formal and informal educators. Participants will receive hands-on experience with the Ocean Sciences Sequence including implementation strategies, daily field trips, and more. The deadline for discounted earlybird registration is May 16, 2013. Be sure
- [7 EE Ideas, Grants, or Projects You Should Know About](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/6416) - 1. Environmental Literacy Grants NOAA’s Office of Education has issued a request for applications for projects designed to build the capacity of educators to use NOAA data and data access tools to help K-12 students and/or the public understand and respond to global change. Applicants should be collaborative teams of two or more U.S. institutions
- [6 EE Grants and Classroom Resources You Should Know About](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/6088) - 1. Presidential Innovation Award for Environmental Educators The Presidential Innovation Award for Environmental Educators Program, a partnership between the CEQ and the EPA, recognizes outstanding K-12 teachers who employ innovative approaches to environmental education and use the environment as a context for learning for their students. Teachers from each EPA region will be selected to
- [4 EE Grant Opportunities You Should Know About](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/5806) - 1. Action for Nature Young Eco-Hero Awards Action for Nature seeks applications from students ages 8-16 for its International Young Eco-Hero Awards Program. The awards program recognizes the individual accomplishments of young people whose personal actions have significantly improved the environment. Projects must concern advocacy, environmental health, research, or protection of the natural world. The
- [Living Planet, Living Imaginations (.pdf)](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/5356) - Click on the image to read the article.
- [Graffiti, Homelessness and Asthma: Facilitating Student-Powered Urban Environmental Education](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/455) - By Shamu Fenyvesi Sadeh Portland State University, Center for Learning and Teaching West (NSF) If students were asked to define “environment” and “community” what would they come up with? What would it look like if students designed their own methods for investigating community environmental issues? What would it mean if the teacher encouraged students to
- [5 Environmental Ed Resources You Should Know About](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/5763) - 1. Pacific Education Institute Toolkit PEI recently created multiple guides as part of the Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies’ Conservation Education Strategy Toolkit. These include the Project Based Learning Model, Field Investigations, Fostering Outdoor Observation Skills, Sustainable Tomorrow, Landscape Investigation Guidelines and Schoolyard Biodiversity Investigation Educator Guide. These guides are free to download! Contact
- [Four States and a Region Added to EECapacity State Consortia Network](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/5791) - (from NAAEE) — New England, New Mexico, Kentucky, Oregon and Utah have joined California, Colorado and Maryland as part of the EECapacity State Consortia network. State Consortia receive funding to develop capacity and networking for EE and related practitioners within their state/region. Each state consortium will include at least 20 educators representing a diversity of
- [Video: How to Start a School Garden](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/5756) - From Edutopia comes a short video on starting your own school garden.. .To see additional videos, go to http://www.edutopia.org/blog/film-festival-school-gardens
- [Green Living Project Seeks Student Videos](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/5682) - Green Living Project (GLP) is accepting submissions for its fall 2012 Student Film Project contest. GLP is looking for student-created short films focused on sustainability or the environment. The deadline is November 28th, and winning films will be screened at the "4th Annual Los Angeles Film Premiere" on December 6th. Winners also receive up to
- [Sarah and Gage - Kid Cultivators](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/5661) - eet Sarah and Gage, educators at Vernon School in NE Portland. They realized that many local parents weren’t sending their kids to Vernon, so they decided to try something new to reconnect families to their neighborhood school. From the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry (OMSI) website at http://choices.omsi.edu/
- [Discovering Place: A Place-based Education Video Series](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/5610) - urious about place-based education? Check out this free place-based education (PBE) video series, produced by University Outreach at the University of Michigan-Flint. The series was made possible through a $20,000 grant by the Saginaw Bay Watershed Initiative Network and support from the Great Lakes Stewardship Initiative. Several of the videos feature Oregon's own Jon Yoder,
- [Birthright: People and Nature in the Modern World](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/5651) - From the book jacket: uman health and well-being are inextricably linked to nature; our connection to the natural world is part of our biological inheritance. In this engaging book, a pioneer in the field of biophilia—the study of human beings’ inherent affinity for nature—sets forth the first full account of nature’s powerful influence on the
- [5 E.E. Resources / Ideas That You Should Know About](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/5578) - 1. Green Living Project Sustainability Film Contest GLP is proud to announce its fall 2012 Student Film Project contest! Students are encouraged to document and submit their own stories of sustainability. The contest is open to 6th grade through college level students. Short films (5 minutes or less) are preferred, documenting any sustainability-related stories. Download
- [EE Research: Give students a say in what and how they learn](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/5534) - Posted By Alex Kudryavtsev from http://eelinked.naaee.net/n/eeresearch Dr. Peter McInerney et al. review the literature related to the theoretical foundations of place-based education (PBE). They propose that the main task of PBE in schools is “creating opportunities for young people to learn about and care for the ecological and social wellbeing of the community they inhabit
- [Teaching in the Outdoor: A Primer](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/1774) - by Jay Roberts Originally published in the Association of Outdoor Recreation and Education (AORE) newsletter. Introduction Teaching in the Outdoors Teaching in general can be a scary thing. We are put in a position of authority and knowledge whether or not we feel like an expert in the particular area. We can feel pressure to
- [What is Community-Based Social Marketing?](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/5456) - by Katrina Landau o what exactly is social marketing, and how does it work to change peoples' behaviors? While traditional marketing works by raising public awareness, social marketing works to identify barriers to behaviors and create long-lasting change. Instead of taking a to-down approach to simply convey information, many environmental educators are now striving to
- [5 More EE Resources You Need to Know About](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/5475) - 1. Biomes and Ecosystems The National Earth Science Teachers Association’s Windows to the Universe biomes and ecosystems, offers an interactive map to explore various biomes and learn about the natural history and current conditions in the dry steppes, alpine tundra, and other biomes. Each section contains photographs and a narrative essay that describes key features
- [5 New EE Resources You Should Know About Today!](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/5411) - 1. Schools That Change Communities Schools That Change Communities, a new one hour documentary from award winning producer Bob Gliner (Lessons From The Real World, Democracy Left Behind) focuses on a diverse range of K-12 public schools in five states – Massachusetts, Maryland, South Dakota, Oregon, and California – that have the potential to refocus
- [6 Environmental Education Resources You Should Know About](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/5361) - 1. Estuaries 101 Middle School Curriculum The National Estuarine Research Reserves has released the Estuaries 101 Middle School Curriculum, a multi-media online science curriculum offering students virtual field trips to estuaries around the country. The curriculum provides interactive learning tools that teach fundamental concepts in science and develop scientific thinking skills, while helping students discover
- [7 EE Resources You Should Know About](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/5275) - 1. Fukushima Daiichi Accident EarthEcho’s Water Planet Challenge provides information and materials to help middle and high school students take action to protect and restore our planet's natural resources while teaching to key standards. The Hot Topics presents monthly interviews, information, and lesson plans covering critical news stories. The current topic is In the Wake
- [The Great Pacific Garbage Patch](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/5328) - By now, most of us are aware that there is a large patch of floating plastic in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. What you may not know is that it’s not made up of plastic bags and empty bottles. It’s made up of billions of tiny pieces of plastic, and it’s basically invisible unless
- [5 EE Resources You Should Know About](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/5181) - 1. YardMap YardMap is a free, interactive, citizen science mapping project about habitat creation and low-impact land use from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, designed to cultivate a richer understanding of bird habitat for both professional scientists and people concerned with their local environments. YardMap uses web technology to let users construct landscape maps using
- [K-12 Oregon Forestry Literacy Program supports teaching about forests](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/5218) - Teachers and school administrators now can access Oregon Forest Resources Institute’s The Oregon Forest Literacy Program, a K-12 Conceptual Guide to Teaching and Learning about Oregon Forests. The new program provides a framework for educating Oregon’s K-12 students about forests. Developed by a diverse and collaborative statewide group, the effort resulted in a plan with
- [Youth, Education and Climate Change](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/5205) - By Jana Dean From a talk given at the United Nations. was invited to speak here because I spend a lot of time with some of the funniest, most hopeful and energetic people on the planet: thirteen and fourteen year olds. While my official charge is to teach math and science concepts, my students learn
- [Gardens Grow Minds: The School as Green Educator](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/5171) - By Mary Quattlebaum “We have a garden! With flowers and butterflies!” The third graders beam as they describe their wildlife garden during my author visit to St. John the Baptist (SJB) School in Maryland. I thought about their enthusiasm and the dedicated teachers and parent volunteer, Mary Phillips, I met that day as I researched
- [EE Research: Children's interactions with plants](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/5167) - Lohr and Pearson-Mims have conducted a nationwide phone survey of 2004 adults in cities about their childhood experiences related to nature, and current action and attitudes towards trees. Researchers concluded that, “Growing up next to natural elements such as flower beds, visiting parks, taking environmental classes, and gardening during childhood were associated with stronger adult
- [EE Research: Playing in the woods ](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/5162) - Researchers conducted phone interviews with 2000 adults in the US urban areas about their childhood nature experiences and current environmental attitudes and behavior. Interview questions, for example, addressed “wild” nature experience in childhood (hiking, camping and hunting) and “domesticated” nature experiences (picking flowers, caring for plants and planting trees). Structural equation modeling was used to
- [Resources for the Classroom — Food Chains](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/5154) - Check out the creative and insightful work of students in Pauline Sameshima's T&L 390 class at Washington State University. (Click on the image to see their individual reviews of K-12 teaching resources).
- [Environmental Literacy in Action: Abernethy Elementary's Farm-to-School and School Garden Program ](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/3933) - On a quiet, residential, inner southeast Portland, Oregon street, a little elementary school is breaking new ground for the farm-to-school and school garden movement. At Abernethy Elementary, students enjoy freshly cooked breakfasts and lunches prepared on site by a trained chef. The meals are often prepared with local and seasonal ingredients, some of which are
- [Resources for the Classroom— Biomes](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/4573) - Check out the creative and insightful work of students in Pauline Sameshima's T&L 390 class at Washington State University. (Click on the image to see their individual reviews of K-12 teaching resources).
- [Hands-on Hanford: Linking Lessons](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/4418) - by Erika Holmes, Community Outreach and Environmenal Education, Washington State Department of Ecology recently attended a forum bringing together state and federal agencies, non-profits, involved citizens, educators, and retired workers with a common goal: getting more young people interested in the Hanford Nuclear Site. With all of its intimidating acronyms, jargon, and bureaucracy, we agreed
- [Partnering for Ocean Literacy](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/4734) - Along the Oregon coast, community partners are teaming up with the school district to encourage use of the ocean as a context for learning . by Rachel Bayor, School Liaison Partnership Coordinator hy do kids need to know about the ocean? It may take a moment to reflect on why the ocean is important to
- [Abernethy's ground-breaking Farm-to-School program](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/4398) - n a quiet, residential, inner southeast Portland, Oregon street, a little elementary school is breaking new ground for the farm-to-school and school garden movement. At Abernethy Elementary, students enjoy freshly cooked breakfasts and lunches prepared on site by a trained chef. The meals are often prepared with local and seasonl ingredients, some of which are
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- [CREST Farm to School](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/3997) - by Bob Carlson CREST is an environmental education center operated by the West Linn-Wilsonville School District which is located just south of Portland, Oregon. One of the key CREST programs is the CREST Farm . The farm is located on surplus district property. Currently, a half-acre of land is producing vegetables for school cafeterias and
- [Kettle Falls: Engaging in Real Work](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/4004) - by Val McKern Kettle Falls Elementary School believes that by engaging kids in authentic work, attitudes can change toward both work and community. As a second grader, Todd started the year with little interest in school, had a difficult time focusing on discussions and avoided work whenever possible. His teacher sought ways to help him
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- [Changing the world...](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/3598) - ..."[Jim] Watson gave up long ago trying to change the world of environmental education through Big Initiatives – the work of government, school boards and such. While he serves on the board of directors for the Chattanooga Arboretum & Nature Center and North Chickamauga Creek Conservancy, his diligent and personal approach to environmental education aims
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- [The Failure of Environmental Education: And What We Can Do to Fix It](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/3409) - by Charles Saylan and Daniel Blumstein (excerpt from the book) nvironmental education has failed to bring about the changes in attitude and behavior necessary to stave off the detrimental effects of climate change, biodiversity loss, and environmental degradation that our planet is experiencing at an alarmingly accelerating rate. For decades, scientists have warned of the
- [Dam Removal as a Teaching Tool](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/2194) - by Derek Jones We erect dams assuming they are eternal, as if they’ll never topple over or be dismantled or fill with sediment or lose their financial rationale. Yet all dams will die. . . They’ll be reminders of an ancient time when humans believed they could vanquish nature, and found themselves vanquished instead. —
- [Kids Training Kids for Nature Leadership](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/3197) - by Greg Traymar Sharing Nature North America If you want to get through to an 8-year old, find an inspired 16-year old. That’s what I’ve found in an extraordinary experience I had during the 2009-10 school year in which I trained a group of 16 high school students in Sharing Nature® games. These students, in
- [Review: Place-Based Science Teaching and Learning: 40 Activities](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/3330) - Reviewed by Christina Bekhazi, Mallory Flesher, Caitlin Gonsalves, Janaina Kitzke and Laura Mathis as part of Dr. Pauline Sameshima's T&L 536 class at Washington State University. Place-Based Science Teaching and Learning: 40 Activities for K-8 Classrooms is an incredible book that teachers should have to help teach place-based science for K-8 students. This book includes
- [Deepening Science Education, Increasing Ecological Literacy](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/3290) - Woodland Park Zoo's "Ready, Set, Discover" gets kids outside By Katie Remine, School and Community Engagement Supervisor Woodland Park Zoo “With an opportunity to wonder, explore, and to question, students can discover fresh reasons to excel at other subjects and sense new confidence because they pursued and acted upon their inquiry. “ —Bruce Kelly, Kent
- [Tips for bringing students into the field:  Strategies for success](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/3193) - By Joshua Klaus, Director of Academic Programs, Ecology Project International (EPI) Taking students into the field can provide an endless array of occasions to learn new skills, see theoretical concepts enacted, make connections, and learn about the world around us. Given the endless places that offer valuable learning opportunities, it must just be a matter
- [A Greater Impact—What Teaching has Taught Me](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/3182) - by David Strich North Cascades Institute Mountain School has ended for me, but this recent spring session changed my life as an educator. I have become more convinced that I am pursuing the right career and that my teaching techniques have had meaningful impacts in my students’ lives. It is embarrassing for me to speak
- [The Importance of Deep Experiences in Nature](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/3161) - By Joseph Cornell Profound moments with nature foster a true and vital understanding of our place in the world. I remember an experience I had as a five-year-old boy that awakened in me a life-long fascination for marshes, birds, and for a life lived wild and free. I was playing outside on a cold, foggy
- [Educating for Earth: Future Generations and All of Life](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/2929) - by Mike Seymour What we have called the "environmental crisis" is the most significant challenge humanity as a whole has faced in its recorded history. How we understand and frame this crisis—and how we summon the political courage to change—will determine the extent to which we are able to continue existence on Earth in a
- [The Forever Forest (Book Review)](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/2242) - Kids Save a Tropical Treasure By Kristin Joy Pratt-Serafini with Rachel Crandell Published by Dawn Publications Reviewed by Emily Baker LeRoux As a home schooling mother of two, I have to admit I like books. I mean REALLY like books. They seem to multiply in our house and I like to think of it as
- [Small Wonders: Nature Education for Young Children (Book Review)](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/2680) - Reviewed by Elizabeth Rinaldo Study after study recommends integrating children into nature at a very young age. Little ones view with innocent and open eyes – they are curious and inquisitive and don’t yet know that it isn’t proper to get their hands dirty. Facilitating outdoor opportunities for children at a very young age can
- [Going Home (Book Review)](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/2690) - The Mystery of Animal Migration By Mariane Berkes Published by Dawn Publications Reviewed by Emily Baker-LaRouf What pushes an animal to travel thousands of miles to places it has never seen or to reproduce in the same spot as its ancestors did? The mysteries of the animal world are many and scientists still don’t hold
- [The “Creative Non-Fiction” Conundrum (and Opportunity)](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/3141) - by Glenn Hovemann, Editor Dawn Publications Let’s say you are in a library or bookstore and you want to find a book that will inspire a child to connect with nature in some way. Should you head for the fiction or non-fiction section? This may seem like an obvious, straightforward choice (paper or plastic? credit
- [The Wilderness Warrior — Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade for America](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/3012) - Author: Douglas Brinkley Publisher: HarperCollins Book Review by Orlay Johnson Whether you have only thought of Teddy Roosevelt as a stuck-up war-mongering aristocrat or as the first modern and progressive US President, I think you will like this book. It is well researched, detailed, and a fun read. The book focuses on Teddy’s (Theodore, to
- [From Screens to Streams: Using Technology as a "Bridge" to the Outdoors](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/2948) - Rather than viewing technology as an enemy of environmental literacy, technology-based learning can help cultivate an environmental sensibility by serving as a "bridge" to the outdoors. By Ryan Johnson When I was ten years old, I was absolutely obsessed with the original Nintendo Entertainment System. My cousins had one, my best friend had one, it
- [High School Students Earn University of Washington Credit in Oceanography](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/2765) - by Richard Strickland, University of Washington School of Oceanography and Timothy Stetter, University of Washington Professional and Continuing Education This fall, as flocks of new freshmen swarm to college campuses, many of them are bringing along college credits that they earned while they were still in high school. Some of them earned the credits by
- [Asphalt to Ecosystems: Design Ideas for Schoolyard Transformation](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/2786) - For grades K-12 Asphalt to Ecosystems is an illuminating guidebook for designing and building creative, ecologically diverse schoolyards and integrating nature into learning and play activities across K-12 curricula. With a wealth of practical advice and over 500 color photographs, Sharon Gamson Danks offers a fully illustrated, easy-to-understand guide for transforming the traditional school ground’s
- [Place-based Education: What makes Sunnyside special?](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/2498) - by Becs Boyd On 16 November I made a return visit to Sunnyside Environmental School in Portland, Oregon, the K-8 (kindergarten to age 14) which I first visited back in May. This time my conversations with the principal, Sarah Taylor, and with teachers and pupils, focused on what makes the school special, and on how
- [Catlin Gabel School—a Focus on Food](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/2436) - By Eric Shawn The interdisciplinary study of food has emerged as a theme in sustainability education at Catlin Gabel School, an independent, co-educational school with 725 students in preschool through 12th grade in Portland, Oregon. The focus on food—a necessity for human life, and a subject of much recent thinking worldwide in terms of sustainability—touches
- [Living with the Ocean](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/2261) - Exploring Place-based Education Programs in the Pacific Northwest by Becs Boyd On the southwest coast of Oregon a small town called Charleston is tucked against a busy dockside lined with fishing and tourist boats. The Oregon Institute of Marine Biology has its base here, in a campus of attractive traditional buildings covered in sun-bleached wooden
- [Review: Shadow of the Salmon](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/2222) - Preparing students with 21st century skills Reviewed by Ella Inglebret and CHiXapkaid (D. Michael Pavel) The salmon serves as an indicator species reflecting the overall health of the natural environment in the Pacific Northwest. For Native American tribal members, the salmon has played a central role in sustaining communities both historically and in contemporary daily
- [Interactive: Education vs. Advocacy](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/2230) - What do you think? As a former environmental educator, I think it is very important that we as educators separate advocacy from education. At the Environmental Education Association of WA’s first conferences in the early 1990s we discussed the distinction a lot. Working at North Cascades Institute and now at another nonprofit, we always have
- [Preparing Teachers to Teach About Sustainability ](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/1782) - Recently Gregory Smith, Professor in the Lewis and Clark College Graduate School of Education and Counseling, received a $19,380 grant from the Gray Family Fund of the Oregon Community Foundation to train teachers in the West Linn (OR) School District on environmental issues. The Environmental Education Program seeks to encourage a strong local land ethic,
- [Top Ten List for Developing Environmental Literacy](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/2087) - from Callister, Jamogochian, Lemos, Weddle, & Yoder (2010) - Community-based Education: Model Programs. Northwest Center for Sustainable Resources. http://www.ncsr.org/materials/index.html This top-ten list of advice from Jon Yoder may be of assistance for teachers just beginning to integrate environmental literacy into their classroom: Start small and find other teachers interested in doing a community project. Support
- [Place-Based Education: What Rural Schools Need to Stimulate Real Learning](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/2059) - By Robert Yager There has never been a time when it is so clear that typical instruction wedded to textbooks and teacher lesson plans and characterized by discipline-bound classes throughout the school day must be changed. These conditions do not improve learning -- they inhibit it. Place-based education makes science, social studies, mathematics, reading, and
- [Guiding Students' Questioning](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/1623) - by Jude Curtain The sun was shining. There was just a hint of fall in the September air. Twenty three fourth graders were hunched over their white dishpans, excitedly sorting through their samples of forest litter. So began a series of lessons designed to guide students in generating questions, creating investigations, and ultimately finding answers.
- [Exploring Forest Ecology: The Northern Flying Squirrel Project](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/19) - by Victoria Lewis Spawned out chinook salmon, brown , spotted and beak-nosed lie dead in the shallow water near the banks of the Salmon River in the Wildwood Recreation Area at the foot of Mount Hood. The smell of rotting fish is sharp and pervasive, but Jill Semlick’s Pauling Academy ecology students ignore the odor.
- [Review: How We Know What We Know About Our Changing Climate](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/1128) - Scientists and Kids Explore Global Warming by Lynne Cherry and Gary Braasch Dawn Publications ISBN 9781584691037 Reviewed by Heather Mattioli Books about climate change typically start from the premise that students will only passively participate. Lynne Cherry’s book departs from this tradition by way of including middle –school children as part of climate change science.
- [An unapologetic advocate...](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/1615) - by Rob Sandelin My primary goal as an educator at the Environmental Science School is to create connections between students and nature. I do this because I believe once students have a deep connection to nature, they become advocates, often for the rest of their life. We have lots of time and experiences with nature
- [Learning from nature](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/1332) - By Mark Costigan reprinted from The Oregon Daily Emerald It’s sad that it takes a threat of crude oil reaching American beachfront property for people to wake up. It seems the only way people unite around fighting environmental degradation is when the effects become visible and personal. If only there were some way to make
- [Review: Awesome Ocean Science! ](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/1456) - Investigating the Secrets of the Underwater World By Cindy A. Littlefield Illustrations by Sarah Rakitin Published by Williamson Publishing, 2003, 120 p. Reviewed by Sharon A. Hollander I review children’s books, and I read through plenty on science and nature. I can honestly say that I felt a wave of relief when I came upon
- [Review: Flotsametrics and the Floating World](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/1644) - How One Man’s Obsession with Runaway Sneakers and Rubber Ducks Revolutionized Ocean Science Authors: Dr. Curtis Ebbesmeyer and Eric Scigliano Publisher: Smithsonian Books/Harper Collins ISBN 13:9780061558412 Reviewed by Orlay Johnson If you would enjoy learning about the life and times of Dr. Curtis Ebbesmeyer, a UW graduate and Seattle oceanographer best known for tracking ocean
- [Ocean Science: What should kids learn?](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/1650) - by Gene Williamson Forty years ago, when I first decided that I wanted to teach about the oceans in my 8th grade classroom in Corvallis, I was faced with a daunting task. Not only were there only the sketchiest of materials available, the prevailing wisdom was that students were not capable of dealing with sea
- [Charting a New Course for Marine Educators](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/1653) - The West Coast Governors’ Agreement on Ocean Health The ocean plays a critical role in maintaining ecosystems and is essential to our health and wellbeing. Its diversity of resources belong to all of us. Yet, only 1 in 10 Americans understand ocean systems or the threats these systems are facing. It is critical to educate
- [Review: The Medea Hypothesis: Is Life on Earth Ultimately Self-Destructive?](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/1736) - Authors: Peter Ward Publisher: Princeton Press Reviewed by Orlay Johnson This book might be more appropriately titled, “Mothers who Murder their Children.” It explores how Mother Earth periodically cleans house of the majority its biota. Sadly, the reference to Medea in the actual title is probably lost on most of us, unless you know more
- [Community Building through Education and Restoration](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/1296) - By Greg Fizzell, Tiffany Cooper, and Aly Bean The education program at the Palouse-Clearwater Environmental Institute (PCEI) gives local school groups and community members an opportunity to learn about the natural world while participating in community service. PCEI programs are unique in nature because of their ability to connect state-of-the-art watershed restoration projects with community
- [Sounds of the Southern Ocean](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/1492) - by Bill Hanshumaker Hatfield Marine Science Center The Southern Ocean surrounds Antarctica and serves as a conduit between the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian oceans. Yet because of severe climatic conditions, much of this ocean basin remains unexplored. Polar regions play key roles in the global environment and one goal of our project is to document
- [Review: Coyote’s Guide to Connecting with Nature](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/1452) - ©2008 Jon Young and Wilderness Awareness School. This a book that needs to be in the possession of everyone who claims to be, or aspires to be, an outdoor educator. This book goes to the heart of developing a sense of kinship with nature and teaching about connecting to the land and to nature. The
- [Review: Eco-Inquiry: A Guide to Ecological Learning Experiences for Upper Elementary/Middle Grades](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/1188) - ISBN: 0-8403-9584-1 Copyright: 1994 Number of Pages: 400 Binding: Soft Cover Author: Kathleen Hogan Publisher: Kendal/Hunt Publishing Co. Reviewed by Fletcher Brown Over the last two decades the educational reform movement has been pitching a variety of methodologies to get educators to be more student-centered and inquiry minded. Curriculum and textbooks have been slowly adapting,
- [Review: A Sense of Place](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/756) - Teaching Children about the Environment with Picture Books By Daniel A. Kriesberg Illustrated by Dorothy Frederick Reviewed by Dr. Suzanne Spradling A Sense of Place is a valuable classroom resource and curricular supplement. This book is designed to help integrate children's literature and hand-on activities to increase students' awareness of their connections to the earth.
- [Review: Just a Dream](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/1326) - By Maggie Wolfe This is my one of my favorite children's environmental books. Chris Van Allsburg's illustrations are fabulous, as always, and greatly add to the drama of the story. I read this book to students (5th-6th grade) at the end of almost every week at outdoor school. This is a great book to read
- [Review: Salmon Creek ](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/232) - Reviewed by Victor Elderton ISBN: 0-88899-458-3 Published by: Groundwood Books / Douglas & McIntyre Written by: Annette LeBox Illustrated by: Karen Reczuch It’s not often in the Pacific Northwest that a children’s book is published that does a great job of illustrating the various aspects of a salmon’s habitat and ecology, while being told in
- [Review: Children's picture books that celebrate summer](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/1148) - Reviews by Pat Scully With the coming of summer, opportunities abound for children to observe small creatures in the outdoors. Birds building nests and raising young, and butterflies, bees, and other insects converging in the flower garden capture children's interest and strike their curiosity. The new titles reviewed here will supplement first-hand experiences observing outside
- [The Kids’ Guide to Nature Adventures ](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/1199) - 80 Great Activities for Exploring the Outdoors Whether their outdoor adventures include camping, hiking, or just exploring the backyard, kids will have a memorable experience with this cheerfully illustrated “nature guide” in their backpack. It’s filled with super projects and games. The fun begins at home with instructions for making such necessities as a sleeping
- [The Green Tsunami:  Environmental Education in the 21 st Century  ](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/835) - By Mike Weilbacher The following paper was presented as the keynote address at the 2005 conference of the Association of Nature Center Administrators (ANCA) at the Chippewa Nature Center in Midland, Michigan, August 2005. Mike is a former PAEE president, newsletter editor and Outstanding Environmental Educator (1991), and directs the Lower Merion Conservancy. Global surface
- [Challenges Facing K-12 Environmental Education](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/1105) - by Louis A. Iozzi, Professor/Director Center for Science and Environmental Education Cook College, Rutgers University As I look at the world of K-12 education, I see far too many challenges to cover in this short presentation. Some have been with us for a very long time, while some are more recent, and few relate only
- [Review: Eco-Inquiry](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/258) - A Guide to Ecological Learning Experiences for Upper Elementary/Middle Grades Reviewed by Fletcher Brown Author Kathleen Hogan Publisher: Kendal/Hunt Publishing Company Pgs: 392 Over the last two decades the educational reform movement has been pitching a variety of methodologies to get educators to be more student-centered and inquiry minded. Curriculum and textbooks have been slowly
- [Lasting Change: Teacher Driven Place-based Education on the Colorado Plateau](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/846) - by Deanna Erickson Learning from the Land Anyone who has traveled through the Four Corners region of the Southwestern United States will remember it distinctly as a place like no other. Towns are scarce, rivers are legendary and rocks seem to bend and twist toward a sky filled with harsh clear light. This is the
- [Corporate Curriculum: Teaching the 'Science of Death'](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/600) - by John F. Borowski For more than a decade, writing for numerous newspapers, magazines and websites, I have attempted to cast a light on "industrial strength" science curriculum: "that curriculum of the corporation, by the corporation and for a corporation's profits...shall indeed hasten the rate of destruction of the earth's resources and indeed, people may
- [Review: Ecological Literacy](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/391) - Edited by Michael K. Stone and Zenobia Barlow (2005; Sierra Club Books) Review by Jaimie P. Cloud This spectacular collection of essays by Fritjof Capra, Wendell Berry, Alice Waters, David Orr and Donella Meadows, to name just a few, is woven together with stories of the editors’ own journeys, over time, educating for sustainability. The
- [A Forest by the Children, for the Children](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/136) - By Kristen Cook This year I learned that EarthCorps don’t only make the forest a better place, they teach other people how to take care of the forest and some of those people are us. — Joseph, 5th grader As the youth outreach coordinator for Earth Corps, a Seattle-based conservation corps, I provide in-depth service

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- [Martin 14](https://clearingmagazine.org/teachinginenvironment/p14) - "Lessons for Teaching in the Environment and Community" is a regular series that explores how teachers can gain the confidence to go into the world outside of their classrooms for a substantial piece of their curricula. Part 14: Learn where we learned to learn by Jim Martin, CLEARING guest writer ur origins are in natural
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- [Spring 2016](https://clearingmagazine.org/spring-2016) - Click on image to see entire issue in flip-page format (Some of the articles below can be found separately by searching the CLEARING website) Spring 2016 TABLE OF CONTENTS Phenology Wheels: Earth Observation Where You Live by Anne Forbes, Partners in Place Environmental Leadership: Making Connections by Katie Lynch Holding Space: Supporting our Students Sense
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- [Winter 05-06](https://clearingmagazine.org/winter-05-06) - Click the image to see this issue in flip-page format Issue 119 Winter 2005-06 TABLE OF CONTENTS A Sense of Wonder ..................................... 2 by David Orr News and Events ........................................ 3 How Livable is Your Neighborhood? ........... 8 by Todd Burley, Homewaters Project DaVinci Middle School Water Garden ........ 10 Lesson Plan: Build a Living
- [Spring 2006](https://clearingmagazine.org/spring-2006) - Click the image to see this issue in flip page format. Issue 120 Spring 2006 TABLE OF CONTENTS EE News and Events...............................................................4 Seattle Students Bring Ecological Footprint to China ..........6 Giving Our Children The Gift of Nature Last
- [Winter 2001](https://clearingmagazine.org/winter-2001) - Click on image to view entire issue in flip-page format. Winter 2001 Issue 108 TABLE OF CONTENTS Marine Educators Explore the Ocean Depths ....9 by Kathleen Heidenreich and Diane Nielsen The R.E,V.E.L. Programhas connected tenchers, scientists and science for the past 5 years. Two Pacific Northwest teachers describe their experiences and how thet shared
- [Winter 2014](https://clearingmagazine.org/magazine/winter-2014) - Click on image to see entire issue in flip-page format Winter 2014 TABLE OF CONTENTS EE NEWS AND EVENTS ........................................................................................................... 3 Brightwater Students Become Engineers for a Day.................................................................... 5 Voyages of Rediscovery Unites Students with Cultural Heritage................................................ 7 Beehives Take Flight:
- [Winter 2014](https://clearingmagazine.org/winter-2014) - Click on image to see entire issue is flip-page format. TABLE OF CONTENTS EE NEWS AND EVENTS ............................................................................................................... 3 Brightwater Students Become Engineers for a Day.................................................................... 5 Voyages of Rediscovery Unites Students with Cultural Heritage................................................ 7 Beehives Take Flight: Honeybee Heroes (Part 3): Sarah Red-Laird at Bee Girl .......................... 8 by Katie Boehnlein Building a
- [NEW: HOR 2026 Guidelines](https://clearingmagazine.org/new-hor-2026-guidelines) - [et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”] Themes and Prompts for 2026 Honoring Our Rivers The following themes are suggestions. You don’t have to follow the theme to submit art or creative writing to Honoring Our Rivers. Feel free to let your imagination inspire you. We appreciate
- [History](https://clearingmagazine.org/about/history) - [et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”4.16″ global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.16″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.16″ custom_padding=”|||” global_colors_info=”{}” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_image src=”https://clearingmagazine.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Earlydays.jpg” force_fullwidth=”on” align_tablet=”center” align_last_edited=”on|desktop” _builder_version=”4.16″ global_colors_info=”{}” align_phone=”center”][/et_pb_image][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.27.4″ hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” sticky_enabled=”0″] (photo from Portland State University Vanguard, c.1982) CLEARING began in 1978 as a project of the Environmental Education Center (School of Education) at Portland State University, and was intended
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- [Spring 2024 - Field-based Inquiry](https://clearingmagazine.org/spring-2024-field-based-inquiry) - [et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row column_structure=”1_2,1_2″ _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”1_2″ _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”] Spring 2024 Click on image to see entire issue in flip-page format [/et_pb_text][et_pb_image src=”https://clearingmagazine.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Spr-24-Field-Research-Issue-Cover-428×550.jpg” title_text=”Spr 24 Field-Research Issue Cover” url=”https://online.fliphtml5.com/hnjow/cyab/” _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][/et_pb_image][/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_2″ _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” sticky_enabled=”0″] Table of Contents Why Field-based Inquiry?by Willow
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- [Resource Database](https://clearingmagazine.org/resources) - [et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”3.22″][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.0.5″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”3.25″ custom_padding=”|||” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.0.5″] Searchable Database of Environmental Education Resources [/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.0.5″] This resource database is currently under construction. When it is operable, it will allow you to search for resources, activities, and curriculum materials by grade level and subject area. It will start small and grow
- [Teaching in the Environment and Community (Series)](https://clearingmagazine.org/teachinginenvironment) - Teaching in the Environment and Community . This special feature by CLEARING “master teacher” Jim Martin explores how teachers can gain the confidence to go into the world outside of their classrooms for a substantial piece of their curricula. Pt. 1: Where Classroom Learning Meets the Real World Hello. I’m Jim Martin, a
- [Lessons for teaching in the environment and community - 15](https://clearingmagazine.org/teachinginenvironment/p15) - "Lessons for Teaching in the Environment and Community" is a regular series that explores how teachers can gain the confidence to go into the world outside of their classrooms for a substantial piece of their curricula. Part 15: Knowledge is Power Knowing the theoretical structure underlying community and environment based learning makes taking your students
- [Teaching and learning in the environment and community - 12](https://clearingmagazine.org/teachinginenvironment/p12) - "Lessons for Teaching in the Environment and Community" is a regular series that explores how teachers can gain the confidence to go into the world outside of their classrooms for a substantial piece of their curricula. Part 12: Flirting with Danger What happens when things seem to go wrong by Jim Martin, CLEARING guest writer
- [Lessons for Teaching in the Environment and Community Pt 1](https://clearingmagazine.org/teachinginenvironment/part1) - "Lessons for Teaching in the Environment and Community" is a regular series that explores how teachers can gain the confidence to go into the world outside of their classrooms for a substantial piece of their curricula. Part 1: Where classroom learning meets the real world... by Jim Martin, CLEARING guest writer Hello. I’m Jim Martin,
- [Martin 16](https://clearingmagazine.org/stories-all/p16) - "Lessons for Teaching in the Environment and Community" is a regular series that explores how teachers can gain the confidence to go into the world outside of their classrooms for a substantial piece of their curricula. Part 16: Effective Work Groups When you know them, they will change your world by Jim Martin, CLEARING guest
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- [Guest editor](https://clearingmagazine.org/guest-editors/guest-editor) - Guest Editor Position Description OVERVIEW CLEARING Magazine is calling for proposals for guest editor(s) for the September 2021 special issue section of the volume, focusing on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) in environmental education. CLEARING is an academic and practical resource for researchers, practitioners, and educators alike. In addition to the special issues section, the
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- [Questioning strategies](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/tag/questioning-strategies)
- [Service learning](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/tag/service-learning)
- [Secondary](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/tag/secondary)
- [General public](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/tag/general-public)
- [Non-formal](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/tag/non-formal)
- [Environmental Education](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/tag/environmental-education)
- [Restoration](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/tag/restoration)
- [Stewardship](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/tag/stewardship)
- [Higher Education](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/tag/higher-education)
- [Salmon](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/tag/salmon)
- [Oceans](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/tag/oceans)
- [Storytelling](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/tag/storytelling)
- [Food](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/tag/food)
- [Citizen scientists](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/tag/citizen-scientists)
- [Wilderness](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/tag/wilderness)
- [Spirituality](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/tag/spirituality)
- [North Cascades Institute](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/tag/north-cascades-institute)
- [NatureMapping](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/tag/naturemapping)
- [Farm-to-School](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/tag/farm-to-school)
- [Earth Day](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/tag/earth-day)
- [ocean](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/tag/ocean)
- [Pedagogy](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/tag/pedagogy)
- [Pelo](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/tag/pelo)
- [IslandWood](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/tag/islandwood)
- [Children and Nature](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/tag/children-and-nature)
- [Community-based EE](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/tag/community-based-ee)
- [Connecting to Nature](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/tag/connecting-to-nature)
- [Field Experience](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/tag/field-experience)
- [Justice and Equity](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/tag/justice-and-equity)
- [Urban EE](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/tag/urban-ee)
- [Resources](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/tag/resources)
- [Environmental Violence](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/tag/environmental-violence)
- [Environmental Stewardship](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/tag/environmental-stewardship)
- [Empowering Teachers](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/tag/empowering-teachers)
- [Gardening in School](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/tag/gardening-in-school)
- [Next Generation Science Standards](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/tag/next-generation-science-standards)
- [School Gardening](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/tag/school-gardening)
- [Schoolyard Classroom](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/tag/schoolyard-classroom)
- [Teacher Preparation](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/tag/teacher-preparation)
- [Teaching science](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/tag/teaching-science)
- [Gender Balance in EE](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/tag/gender-balance-in-ee)
- [Girls in Science](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/tag/girls-in-science)
- [Perspectives](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/tag/perspectives)
- [Critical Thinking](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/tag/critical-thinking)
- [First Nations](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/tag/first-nations)
- [Global Perspective](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/tag/global-perspective)
- [Traditional Knowledge](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/tag/traditional-knowledge)
- [Energy Alternatives](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/tag/energy-alternatives)
- [Reading](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/tag/reading)
- [Data gathering](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/tag/data-gathering)
- [Environment as Context for Learning](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/tag/environment-as-context-for-learning)
- [Field Investigations](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/tag/field-investigations)
- [Student Investigation](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/tag/student-investigation)
- [Phenology](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/tag/phenology)
- [Plants](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/tag/plants)
- [Charter Schools](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/tag/charter-schools)
- [Community partnerships](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/tag/community-partnerships)
- [Connecting to Place](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/tag/connecting-to-place)
- [Project-based Learning](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/tag/project-based-learning)
- [Traditional Ecological Knowledge](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/tag/traditional-ecological-knowledge)
- [Canoe Curriculum](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/tag/canoe-curriculum)
- [Native American](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/tag/native-american)
- [Ecological Identity](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/tag/ecological-identity)
- [Citizenship](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/tag/citizenship)
- [Field-based Research](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/tag/field-based-research)
- [Learning Theory](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/tag/learning-theory)
- [Ocean Literacy](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/tag/ocean-literacy)
- [Rivers and streams](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/tag/rivers-and-streams)
- [Theory of learning](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/tag/theory-of-learning)
- [Active Learning](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/tag/active-learning)
- [Marine/Aquatic Education](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/tag/marine-aquatic-education)
- [Art and STEM](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/tag/art-and-stem)
- [Underserved communities](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/tag/underserved-communities)
- [Communication](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/tag/communication)
- [Peace building](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/tag/peace-building)
- [Forest Literacy](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/tag/forest-literacy)
- [Wilderness Education](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/tag/wilderness-education)
- [STEM](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/tag/stem)
- [Conservation](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/tag/conservation)
- [Book Review](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/tag/book-review)
- [Curriculum](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/tag/curriculum)
- [Water Education](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/tag/water-education)
- [Assessment](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/tag/assessment)
- [Energy Literacy](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/tag/energy-literacy)
- [Evaluation](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/tag/evaluation)
- [Professional Development](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/tag/professional-development)
- [Robotics](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/tag/robotics)
- [ROV](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/tag/rov)
- [Environmental Handprints](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/tag/environmental-handprints)
- [Integrated Teaching](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/tag/integrated-teaching)
- [Creative Writing](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/tag/creative-writing)
- [Student Film-making](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/tag/student-film-making)
- [Videos](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/tag/videos)
- [Wetlands](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/tag/wetlands)
- [EE Research](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/tag/ee-research)
- [Permaculture](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/tag/permaculture)
- [Field Trips](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/tag/field-trips)
- [Mapmaking](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/tag/mapmaking)
- [Plastic](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/tag/plastic)
- [Aquariums](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/tag/aquariums)
- [Clean water](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/tag/clean-water)
- [Environmental Ethics](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/tag/environmental-ethics)
- [Integration](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/tag/integration)
- [K-5](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/tag/k-5)
- [Controversial Issues](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/tag/controversial-issues)
- [Wastewater Treatment](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/tag/wastewater-treatment)
- [Eco Literacy](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/tag/eco-literacy)
- [Forests](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/tag/forests)
- [Natural Resources Education](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/tag/natural-resources-education)
- [Arts and Humanities](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/tag/arts-and-humanities)
- [Scientific Method](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/tag/scientific-method)
- [Common Core](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/tag/common-core)
- [Energy Conservation](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/tag/energy-conservation)
- [Recycling](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/tag/recycling)
- [Environmental Health](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/tag/environmental-health)
- [Dystopian Future](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/tag/dystopian-future)
- [Estuaries](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/tag/estuaries)
- [University EE Programs](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/tag/university-ee-programs)
- [Environmental Literacy](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/tag/environmental-literacy)
- [Desertification](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/tag/desertification)
- [Hunger](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/tag/hunger)
- [Recreation](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/tag/recreation)
- [Early Childhood](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/tag/early-childhood)
- [Learning Gardens](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/tag/learning-gardens)
- [Golf and Environment](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/tag/golf-and-environment)
- [Biological Diversity](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/tag/biological-diversity)
- [Power of One](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/tag/power-of-one)
- [Caduto](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/tag/caduto)
- [Smith](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/tag/smith)
- [Botany](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/tag/botany)
- [Ethnobotany](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/tag/ethnobotany)
- [Schools](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/tag/schools)
- [Greg Smith](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/tag/greg-smith)
- [Pramod Parajuli](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/tag/pramod-parajuli)
- [Coyote Teaching](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/tag/coyote-teaching)
- [Cool School Challenge](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/tag/cool-school-challenge)
- [Spiders](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/tag/spiders)
- [Green mapping](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/tag/green-mapping)
- [Activity Ideas](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/tag/activity-ideas)
- [Zimmerman](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/tag/zimmerman)
- [ADHD](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/tag/adhd)
- [Outdoor Ed](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/tag/outdoor-ed)
- [Big Ideas](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/tag/big-ideas)
- [student research](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/tag/student-research)
- [dragonflies](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/tag/dragonflies)
- [dick jordan](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/tag/dick-jordan)
- [place](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/tag/place)
- [agreements](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/tag/agreements)
- [connections](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/tag/connections)
- [collaboration](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/tag/collaboration)
- [reflection](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/tag/reflection)
- [solo walk](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/tag/solo-walk)
- [solitude](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/tag/solitude)
- [observation](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/tag/observation)
- [connecting](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/tag/connecting)
- [place-based EE](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/tag/place-based-ee)
- [integraiion](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/tag/integraiion)
- [performing arts](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/tag/performing-arts)
- [toolkit](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/tag/toolkit)
- [places](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/tag/places)
- [cultural traditions](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/tag/cultural-traditions)
- [edibles](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/tag/edibles)
- [medicines](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/tag/medicines)
- [place-based](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/tag/place-based)
- [native plants](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/tag/native-plants)
- [Salish stories](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/tag/salish-stories)
- [plant iD](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/tag/plant-id)
- [posters](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/tag/posters)
- [recipes STEAM](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/tag/recipes-steam)
- [water cycle](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/tag/water-cycle)
- [student-initiated research](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/tag/student-initiated-research)
- [Oregon 4-H](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/tag/oregon-4-h)
- [lifelong skills](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/tag/lifelong-skills)
- [leadership](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/tag/leadership)
- [finding solutions](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/tag/finding-solutions)
- [hands-on learning](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/tag/hands-on-learning)
- [problem solving](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/tag/problem-solving)
- [food insecurity](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/tag/food-insecurity)
- [systems approach](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/tag/systems-approach)
- [Healing](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/tag/healing)
- [Identity](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/tag/identity)
- [perspective](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/tag/perspective)
- [project-based](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/tag/project-based)
- [student oices](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/tag/student-oices)
- [Puget Sound](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/tag/puget-sound)
- [invasives](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/tag/invasives)
- [schoolyard](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/tag/schoolyard)
- [Homeschool](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/tag/homeschool)
- [sea tank](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/tag/sea-tank)
- [specimens](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/tag/specimens)
- [creatures](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/tag/creatures)
- [expeditionary](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/tag/expeditionary)
- [healthy forests](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/tag/healthy-forests)
- [cross curricular](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/tag/cross-curricular)
- [rigorous learning](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/tag/rigorous-learning)
- [aquatic science](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/tag/aquatic-science)
- [microscope skills](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/tag/microscope-skills)
- [marine organisms](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/tag/marine-organisms)
- [4-H](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/tag/4-h)
- [realism](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/tag/realism)
- [anthropomorphism](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/tag/anthropomorphism)
- [immersive](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/tag/immersive)
- [care](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/tag/care)
- [Montessori](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/tag/montessori)
- [field study](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/tag/field-study)
- [asking questions](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/tag/asking-questions)
- [diack](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/tag/diack)
- [workshop](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/tag/workshop)
- [training](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/tag/training)
- [planning](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/tag/planning)
- [Linguistics](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/tag/linguistics)
- [natural resources](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/tag/natural-resources)
- [soil health](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/tag/soil-health)
- [K-12 educators](https://clearingmagazine.org/archives/tag/k-12-educators)