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Direct linkJohnson, Carla C., Ed.; Walton, Janet B., Ed.; Peters-Burton, Erin E., Ed. – NSTA Press, 2019
What if you could challenge your second graders to design an outdoor STEM classroom with a butterfly garden, birdbath, and sundial? With this volume in the "STEM Road Map Curriculum Series," you can! "Investigating Environmental Changes" outlines a journey that will steer your students toward authentic problem solving while…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Elementary School Students, Teaching Methods, Outdoor Education
Watts, Ann – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2011
A garden can be a magical place for young children and offers them rich and engaging learning experiences as they interact with a variety of plants and wildlife throughout the year. This book guides you through the process of creating a garden, however small, for young children. It looks at the impact a garden area can have on children's overall…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Conservation (Environment), Young Children, Gardening
Taylor, Roger S., Ed.; Ferrari, Michel, Ed. – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2010
How is epistemology related to the issue of teaching science and evolution in the schools? Addressing a flashpoint issue in our schools today, this book explores core epistemological differences between proponents of intelligent design and evolutionary scientists, as well as the critical role of epistemological beliefs in learning science.…
Descriptors: Epistemology, Evolution, Creationism, Scientists
Lord, Thomas R.; Travis, Holly J. – National Science Teachers Association (NJ3), 2011
With 101 easy and inexpensive activities to do on school grounds, "Schoolyard Science" can help students develop their observation and inquiry skills as well as an appreciation of their outdoor environment. Covering topics such as lower plants, gardens, insects and other invertebrates, energy, and Earth science, Thomas Lord and Holly Travis…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Earth Science, Entomology, Critical Thinking
Ghenai, Chaouki, Ed. – InTech, 2012
Securing the future of the human race will require an improved understanding of the environment as well as of technological solutions, mindsets and behaviors in line with modes of development that the ecosphere of our planet can support. Some experts see the only solution in a global deflation of the currently unsustainable exploitation of…
Descriptors: Sustainable Development, Foreign Countries, Indigenous Knowledge, Epistemology
Thorp, Laurie – Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2006
This book is Laurie Thorp's dirt-under-the-fingernails ethnography of four years in an elementary school garden and the ways in which this garden catalyzed cultural transformation and inspired hope, growth, and community. Filled with photographs, sketches, poetry, and journal entries, Thorp's engaging book describes the educational benefits of…
Descriptors: Gardening, Educational Benefits, Ethnography, Elementary Schools
Wilson, Ruth – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2007
From adding richness and variety to learning, to redesigning a playground, this highly accessible text will provide early years practitioners with a wealth of ideas on how to foster creative play and learning in the outdoor environment with a focus on interacting with the natural world. "Nature and Young Children" contains many simple ideas on the…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Safety, Active Learning, Recreational Activities
