Place-based Education (PBE):
- Immerses students in local heritage, cultures, landscapes, opportunities and experiences;
- Uses these as a foundation for the study of language arts, mathematics, social studies, science and other subjects across the curriculum; and
- Emphasizes learning through participation in service projects for the local school and/or community.
Stories From the Field:
Place-based education in action
Chickens in the Classroom
An educator was teaching first graders a lesson about chickens when something unexpected—and extraordinary—happened: a little chicken leapt across a cultural divide.
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Research and Evaluation:
Making the case for place-based education
Highlighted Reports
- Benefits of Place-based Education
- Closing the Achivement Gap
- Quantifying a Relationship Between Place-Based Learning and Environmental Quality
- Benefits of Nature for Children's Health, Fact Sheet #1
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The Network:
Place-based education in your community and around the world
Shelburne Farms
Shelburne Farms is an environmental education center, 1,400-acre working farm, and National Historic Landmark. Our mission is to cultivate a conservation ethic by teaching and demonstrating the stewardship of natural and agricultural resources.
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Calendar
June 21-25
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.
Tuesday-Thursday, August 3-5, 2010; 8:30 am-4:30 pm
Formal and non-formal educators nation-wide are using the idea of sustainability to connect student's learning experiences across the grades and disciplines so that they can meet the challenges and opportunities of the 21st century. Join fellow PreK-12 educators to build strategies and skills for using sustainability to connect curriculum, campus practices, and community engagement.
Summer Workshop Monday-Friday, July 26-30, 2010; 9:00 am-4:00 pm
Discover exciting, interdisciplinary, and hands-on ways to enrich your science curriculum with easy-to-use activities on environmental and agricultural topics. This workshop is designed to increase science literacy and cultivate connections by tracing the food we eat and the clothes we wear back to the farm.
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Calendar of Workshops & Events
Vignette
Songbird Welcome Center
Elementary students in Kansas restore songbird habitat at the Marion Springs Environmental Center. High school shop students, biologists, and a local artist help students construct birdbaths, benches, and feeders, and selected soil amendments. A fourth- and fifth-grade recycling program partially funds the project. Success is measured by monitoring use of the plot by birds, students, and community members.
Marion Springs Elementary #348
Baldwin City, KS
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