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Hands on the Land, a new initiative to promote the use of public lands for environment-based education, consists of a national network of field classrooms designed to link students, teachers, and parents to national public lands. Each education site ...
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While most schools offer different types of camps, a growing number are offering summer science camps. This provides a way for children to enjoy the summer while learning science at the same time. One school looked to Camp Invention® for its summer ...
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Science Adventures at the Local Museum
To promote science learning outside the traditional classroom and encourage preservice teachers to use hands-on science, a local university and museum partner to promote informal science education....
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Project FLORA: Flora Love Our Revegetation Areas
A small school district in southwestern Texas comes together to protect its own backyard. In this project students collected native seed, built a greenhouse to propagate native plants from this seed, learned to identify disturbed areas within the par...
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The Coast Guard Comes to Class
The United States Coast Guard offers many programs and resources without cost to teachers and their students. The author describes his visit to a sixth-grade classroom, where he demonstrates an oil spill and explains how pollution affects the marine ...
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Discovering Trees: Not Just a Walk in the Park!
An urban classroom participates in a yearlong partnership sponsored by a local botanical garden. Through field trips and classroom activities students observe and learn about seasonal changes in trees and sketch their observations. This partnership s...