Washington Area Schools, Including Hollin Meadows, Take Lessons Outside – washingtonpost.com.
Five years ago, a small group of parents sought to create a garden at Hollin Meadows. Now, 14,000 square feet of gardens surround the school, and virtually every classroom has spilled outside.
Students measure worms in math classes and plant peanuts when learning about Virginia history. [...]
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Washington Schools Take Lessons Outside
Posted in Children and Nature, Environment, tagged children, education, Environmental Education, kids, kids in nature, Nature, Nature Deficit Disorder, No Child Left Inside, teachers on March 30, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Taking the environment out of the ghetto
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged children, Eliot, Environmental Education, environmentalism, Galapagos, literature, Muir, Nature, teachers, Thoreau, Wendell Berry, Wordsworth on December 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
[Andy Lombardo] worked with other US and Galapagos teachers to put together a lesson plan called the “Paradox of Paradise,” which ingeniously injects environmental study into a classic literature survey. Literary staples like Wordsworth, Thoreau, and Eliot will be used to illuminate environmental issues—alongside a ’stations’ approach that will also involve non-fiction, artwork, and protest [...]
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