Calendar of Workshops and Events
Courses, workshops, and conferences promoting place-based education and associated fields are happening around the world. Search the calendar below for events of interest.
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Discovering Community: Students, Digital Media, and Place-Based Learning
June 21-25
Middlebury
his institute offers educators the opportunity to explore the power of field research as a means to facilitate student engagement with their home communities. Over the course of an intensive, week-long program, participants will work with cultural researchers, documentary media specialists, artists, and fellow educators in a learning environment that models an ethnographic approach to community inquiry. The institute brings together place as the context, sustainability as the goal, and service learning as the strategy.
Details & Contact Info
| Label | Value |
|---|---|
| Organization | Vermont Folklife Center |
| Name | Gregory Sharrow |
| Phone | 802/388-4964 |
| Website | http://www.discoveringcommunity.org. |
Workshops & Institutes Education for Sustainability (EFS) Institute
Tuesday-Thursday, August 3-5, 2010; 8:30 am-4:30 pm
Formal and non-formal educators nation-wide are using the idea of sustainability to connect student's learning experiences across the grades and disciplines so that they can meet the challenges and opportunities of the 21st century. Join fellow PreK-12 educators to build strategies and skills for using sustainability to connect curriculum, campus practices, and community engagement.
Details & Contact Info
| Label | Value |
|---|---|
| Organization | Shelburne Farms' Sustainable Schools Project |
| Name | Matt Dubel |
| Phone | 802-985-0331 |
| Website | http://www.sustainableschoolsproject.org |
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Summer Workshop Monday-Friday, July 26-30, 2010; 9:00 am-4:00 pm
Discover exciting, interdisciplinary, and hands-on ways to enrich your science curriculum with easy-to-use activities on environmental and agricultural topics. This workshop is designed to increase science literacy and cultivate connections by tracing the food we eat and the clothes we wear back to the farm.
Details & Contact Info
| Label | Value |
|---|---|
| Organization | Shelburne Farms |
| Name | Linda Wellings |
| Phone | 802-985-0308 |
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"Living Machine" & Wetlands Restoration
Seventh- and eighth-graders learn how wetlands function through a service-learning project with the Department of Environmental Protection's Wetlands Restoration Unit. Students construct a "living machine," a self-sustaining, integrated, four-chambered ecosystem in which the waste from one chamber becomes the nutrients for the next.
EastConn Alternative Design Academy
Hampton, CT
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