About the Workshop: 

Ecoliteracy - education for sustainable living.  Place-based ecoliteracy curriculum, edible schoolyards, the connections among food, culture, health and the environment, and the Leave No Child Inside movement are some exciting ideas you will explore in this workshop on taking your curriculum green.

• STEM

• Common Core State Standards - for all disciplines!

• Student engagement and motivation

• 21st Century Skills

• Global, collaborative classrooms

Learn how to design and deliver a curriculum that integrates ecoliteracy into a project-based, interdisciplinary curriculum that meets all the standards (exceed them, actually!), promotes nutrition, physical fitness, civic literacy, service learning, financial literacy, media literacy and more.  Create the ultimate 21st century curriculum - relevant, rigorous and real-world - as your students engage in projects ranging from gardening and cooking, to multimedia production, to scientific investigations related to the environment.

Discover how an integrated curriculum and enriched school environment link student learning and well-being and enhance student understanding about the natural world.  As John Dewey said more than 100 years ago, school lessons should be tied to the values and skills of the “real world”. 

Find out how to design a school, a classroom and a curriculum that is good for children AND ensure that, in this era of NCLB, content standards and 21^st century knowledge and skills are learned to higher levels.  From school gardens, kitchen classrooms, and the lunch room to biodiversity, the environment, cultures, history and more – the content and connections are all there.   See real-world examples of what schools around the United States and the world are doing.  Receive an up-to-date list of excellent resources and current research to help you design your unique Green School and Classrooms.  Attend this one-day institute to learn the answers to these and other questions:

• What is "green" education?

• How can I teach STEM subjects through a "green" curriculum?

• How can my students meet their content standards and achieve high test scores through "green" education?

• What about the NCLB?

• How do I embed the new Common Core State Standards?

• How can I use "green" education to create a 21st century classroom?

• What are some specific activities and projects I can do with my students to teach about nutrition, food, gardening, and various environmental issues - from food to alternative energies?

• See examples of what other schools, teachers, students and communities are doing to make their education rigorous, relevant and real-world through Green Education.

Return to your classrooms armed with an Action Plan for taking your school “green”.  You will have specific strategies which you can begin to implement immediately at the classroom level. 

Fee: Includes the registration fee, materials, continental breakfast, mid-morning and mid-afternoon snacks.

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University Credit - this workshop being submitted to Chapman University for accreditation.  It will be added to our currently list of workshops already accredited by Chapman University.

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