Download or read book Lessons from Backyard Teachers written by Thomas D. Logie and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2014-03 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: God well knew that for many generations a majority of people would neither read nor write. So He used nature to speak to people who were not literate. In America we imagine that everyone reads and writes, although in truth a shocking number of people are functionally illiterate. So Christians must resurrect ancient methods of teaching truth, such as the examples of daily life used in the parables of the Lord Jesus and the visual images of Ezekiel and John. King David, Bach and Handel were geniuses at communicating spiritual truth through music, although most modern people are too impatient to listen to a complete work of Bach or Handel in one sitting. This work is an effort to put cameras to the service of God in a modern echo of the methods of the Holy Spirit in speaking to ancient people who lacked written language. Many people who do read and write also learn from visual presentation of truth. We would pray that God and His Son the Lord Jesus would be glorified.
Download or read book Dirty Teaching written by Juliet Robertson and published by Crown House Publishing. This book was released on 2014-06-05 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the keys to a happy and creative classroom is getting out of it and this book will give you the confidence to do just that. Drawing on academic research, Juliet explains why learning outdoors is so beneficial and provides plenty of tips and activities to help you to integrate outdoor learning into your teaching practice, providing a broad range of engaging outdoor experiences for your students. There is no need for expensive tools or complicated technologies: all you need is your coat and a passion for learning - oh, and you'd better bring the kids too! Topics covered include: forest schools, learning outside the classroom, outdoor education, nature activities, caring for the environment, play in schools, investigative play, urban outdoor activities, problem solving, creative thinking and strategies for supporting curriculum objectives. For all primary practitioners who want to shake up their usual classroom routine and discover the benefits of teaching outdoors. Dirty Teaching was a finalist in the Non-Fiction People's Book Prize Winter 2014 collection.
Download or read book Lawn Boy written by Gary Paulsen and published by Yearling. This book was released on 2009-03-24 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One day I was 12 years old and broke. Then Grandma gave me Grandpa's old riding lawnmower. I set out to mow some lawns. More people wanted me to mow their lawns. And more and more. . . . One client was Arnold the stockbroker, who offered to teach me about "the beauty of capitalism. Supply and Demand. Diversify labor. Distribute the wealth." "Wealth?" I said. "It's groovy, man," said Arnold. If I'd known what was coming, I might have climbed on my mower and putted all the way home to hide in my room. But the lawn business grew and grew. So did my profits, which Arnold invested in many things. And one of them was Joey Pow the prizefighter. That's when my 12th summer got really interesting.
Download or read book The Garden Classroom written by Cathy James and published by Shambhala Publications. This book was released on 2015-04-07 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Creative ways to use the garden to inspire learning, for kids ages 4-8 Packed with garden-based activities that promote science, math, reading, writing, imaginative play, and arts and crafts, The Garden Classroom offers a whole year of outdoor play and learning ideas—however big or small your garden. Every garden offers children a rich, sensory playground, full of interesting things to discover and learn about. There's a whole lot of science happening right before their eyes. The garden can also be a place to develop math and literacy skills, as the outdoors offers up plenty of invitations to weave learning into everyday gardening. The garden classroom is a place where plants grow, and where children grow too.
Download or read book Teaching in the Outdoors written by Donald R. Hammerman and published by Prentice Hall. This book was released on 2001 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Information on teaching outdoor education in different regards such as extending the school curriculum or as resident outdoor education programs.
Download or read book Understanding by Design written by Grant P. Wiggins and published by ASCD. This book was released on 2005 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is understanding and how does it differ from knowledge? How can we determine the big ideas worth understanding? Why is understanding an important teaching goal, and how do we know when students have attained it? How can we create a rigorous and engaging curriculum that focuses on understanding and leads to improved student performance in today's high-stakes, standards-based environment? Authors Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe answer these and many other questions in this second edition of Understanding by Design. Drawing on feedback from thousands of educators around the world who have used the UbD framework since its introduction in 1998, the authors have greatly revised and expanded their original work to guide educators across the K-16 spectrum in the design of curriculum, assessment, and instruction. With an improved UbD Template at its core, the book explains the rationale of backward design and explores in greater depth the meaning of such key ideas as essential questions and transfer tasks. Readers will learn why the familiar coverage- and activity-based approaches to curriculum design fall short, and how a focus on the six facets of understanding can enrich student learning. With an expanded array of practical strategies, tools, and examples from all subject areas, the book demonstrates how the research-based principles of Understanding by Design apply to district frameworks as well as to individual units of curriculum. Combining provocative ideas, thoughtful analysis, and tested approaches, this new edition of Understanding by Design offers teacher-designers a clear path to the creation of curriculum that ensures better learning and a more stimulating experience for students and teachers alike.
Download or read book Life in a Pond written by Carol K. Lindeen and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2016-08 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores how plants, insects, fish, birds, and other animals come together in ponds and make them their homes.
Download or read book Moving the Classroom Outdoors written by Herbert W. Broda and published by Stenhouse Publishers. This book was released on 2011 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Designed to provide teachers and administrators with a range of practical suggestions for making the schoolyard a varied and viable learning resource, Moving the Classroom Outdoors presents concrete examples of how urban, suburban, and rural schools have enhanced the school site as a teaching tool. --from publisher description.
Download or read book Teaching Outdoors Creatively written by Stephen Pickering and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-04-21 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Teaching Outdoors Creatively offers guidance and a variety of exciting ideas to suit the full range of primary schools and locations. Underpinned by current research and practical experience, it investigates innovative approaches to working creatively with children beyond the classroom. While recognising the diverse needs and opportunities that primary schools have to develop the outdoors as part of their curriculum, it presents a broad range of activities, philosophies and approaches. Key themes explored include: Understanding and using local and home environments Investigating streets and buildings in your area Planning fieldwork Using rivers to inspire children Forest schools Beach schools Physical education outdoors Learning through adventure. Teaching Outdoors Creatively supports teaching and learning in a wide range of settings, from schools in rural and urban areas, to off-site outdoor education centres and residential visits. With a focus on developing effective and stimulating learning environments for children it is a must-have resource for all busy trainee and practising teachers.
Download or read book Quality Lesson Plans for Outdoor Education written by Kevin Redmond and published by Human Kinetics. This book was released on 2010 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here, outdoor leaders will discover an abundance of ideas that can make their jobs easier, enrich their teaching knowledge and broaden their current programmes. A CD-ROM also accompanies the book and allows users to search for and print only the lessons they plan to use.
Download or read book Teaching in the Outdoors written by Green Teacher and published by Booktango. This book was released on 2014-07-15 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Teaching in the Outdoors provides a practical guide for getting students outdoors and helpful suggestions for maximizing the outdoor learning experience. It features the best articles on outdoor education ever published in Green Teacher magazine, including tips for leading fantastic field trips and the proper technique for class hikes.
Download or read book Educating Outside written by Helen Porter and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-03-22 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although the benefits of learning outside are well documented and more and more teachers are heading out (post-pandemic) to teach their classes, outdoor activities often decline as children progress through their education. There are many reasons for this: lack of time in the curriculum, lack of training, lack of teacher confidence, or simply lack of inspiration. Educating Outside contains a bank of outdoor learning ideas that can be used to enhance and enrich your classes' learning experiences across the curriculum; including in science, history, geography, art and design, English and maths. Each lesson idea is linked to a specific programme of study and outlines required resources, links to soft skills, cross-curricular opportunities, and a broad lesson plan with suggested outcomes and photos. All the ideas take place within the school grounds themselves, which means plenty of opportunities to try out new activities without lengthy risk assessments, extra time and additional expense.
Download or read book The Muddy Puddle Teacher written by Sarah Seaman and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-04-28 with total page 49 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'A fantastic addition to every bookshelf' - Kathy Brodie, Host and founder of Early Years TV, @kathybrodie The Muddy Puddle Teacher gives you everything you need to create an engaging, active and inclusive outdoor curriculum for your Early Years setting. Based on the well-loved Muddy Puddle Teacher Approach and following the Three Muddy M's – mother nature, mental health and getting more kids moving – this handbook is jam-packed with simple outdoor activities for every season. There are step-by-step instructions and full-colour photographs to demonstrate the activities. Whether you're a forest school enthusiast or just getting started in taking your teaching outside, there are plenty of inspiring ideas to benefit children and save you hours of preparation time. Using natural and upcycled materials, the activities in this book span key EYFS topics as well as PSHE themes, from muddy maths and literacy to muddy meditation and yoga. From making rhyming word strings with leaves to creating witches' kitchens and small world eco-villages, every activity is ideal for delivering a fun and effective session while inspiring a love of nature and raising environmental awareness. Perfectly adaptable to all outdoor spaces, this book will transform your Early Years practice in an affordable, sustainable way.
Download or read book Teaching for Joy and Justice written by Linda Christensen and published by Rethinking Schools. This book was released on 2009 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a collection of essays and practical advice, including lesson plans and activities, to promote writing in all aspects of the curriculum.
Download or read book The Backyard Parables written by Margaret Roach and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2013-01-15 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Margaret Roach has been harvesting thirty years of backyard parables-deceptively simple, instructive stories from a life spent digging ever deeper-and has distilled them in this memoir along with her best tips for garden making, discouraging all manner of animal and insect opponents, at-home pickling, and more. After ruminating on the bigger picture in her memoir And I Shall Have Some Peace There, Margaret Roach has returned to the garden, insisting as ever that we must garden with both our head and heart, or as she expresses it, with "horticultural how-to and woo-woo." In The Backyard Parables, Roach uses her fundamental understanding of the natural world, philosophy, and life to explore the ways that gardening saved and instructed her, and meditates on the science and spirituality of nature, reminding her readers and herself to keep on digging.
Download or read book Outdoor Science written by Steve Rich and published by NSTA Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Research shows that environment-centered education improves student achievement. Whatever your school's setting-urban, suburban, or rural-you can create stimulating outdoor classrooms for your students, with a little help from Outdoor Science. Author and state science specialist Steve Rich shows teachers how to create outdoor learning spaces that can be used from year to year-with little extra effort or resources. These practical suggestions for creating, maintaining, and using outdoor classrooms work for both elementary and middle school students. The simple and inexpensive lessons satisf.
Download or read book Learning Outside the Classroom written by Simon Beames and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-03-22 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The first curricular-focused outdoor learning textbook for prospective and practising K-12 teachers, this book provides both academic justification and practical support for educators working in a wide variety of environments and with diverse populations of students to incorporate more meaningful outdoor learning opportunities into their daily teaching activities. Learning Outside the Classroom is not a set of prescriptive activities that can be read and used uncritically. The idea of adaptation for personal relevance is central. All teachers are capable of enhancing their students' learning experiences by systematically and progressively incorporating ventures outside the classroom into their lessons. The principles and examples presented in this book are intended to be adapted by teachers to suit the needs of their students in ways that draw upon content offered by the local landscape and its natural and built heritage. Nor is this book just about outdoor learning; it's about good teaching -- wherever it takes place. It is about helping teachers devise and use the tools with which they can address the largely uncontested assumption that legitimate learning only occurs within four walls. Learning outside the classroom affords teachers the privilege of helping and the joy of observing students in a process of intellectual, emotional, and social growth that can last a lifetime"-- Provided by publisher.
