Greening the Classroom and the Curriculum
About the Workshop:
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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
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STEM
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Common Core State Standards -
for all disciplines!
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Student engagement and
motivation
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21st Century Skills
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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 21st
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:
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What is "green" education?
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How can I
teach STEM subjects through a "green" curriculum?
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How can my students meet their content
standards and achieve high test scores through "green" education?
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What about the NCLB?
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How do I embed the new Common Core State
Standards?
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How can I use "green" education to create
a 21st century classroom?
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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?
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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.
Register Here
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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