No Student Left Indoors Creating a Field Guide to Your Schoolyard |
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| Author:
| Kirkland, Jane |
| Editor:
| Kirkland, Guy
Palaisa, Melanie
Burke, Dorothy |
| Series title: | Take a Walk Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-9709754-5-4 |
| Publication Date: | Jun 2007 |
| Publisher: | World Revealed Ink
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| Book Format: | Spiral bound |
| List Price: | USD $49.95 |
Book Description:
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No Student Left Indoors is your opportunity to learn and teach about our planet by helping your students to create a field guide to your schoolyard. Whether you're a nature buff or nature-phobe, a literary genius or writing impaired, artistically talented or one who can't draw a straight line with a ruler, and teaching gift or challenged students in an urban, suburban, or rural school--you'll wonder why you didn't think of this before. You'll...
More Description No Student Left Indoors is your opportunity to learn and teach about our planet by helping your students to create a field guide to your schoolyard. Whether you're a nature buff or nature-phobe, a literary genius or writing impaired, artistically talented or one who can't draw a straight line with a ruler, and teaching gift or challenged students in an urban, suburban, or rural school--you'll wonder why you didn't think of this before.
You'll learn:
- Who can participate in and benefit from a schoolyard study
- What those benefits are
- Where to look for nature in your schoolyard
- When to conduct your studies
- How to teach students to discover, observe, and record the nature in your schoolyard
- Why everyone is talking about No Student Left Indoors
This is a project for a class, grade, or entire school. It can be a long-term project based on inquiry, investigation, and hands-on learning, The project connects science, language arts, history, creative arts, and technology.