Resource Detail: Web Seminar Archive

	Archive: Schoolyard Garden Basics March 24, 2010
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Type of Resource:	Web Seminar Archive
Average Rating:	based on 2 - 7 / 3.5 reviews
Location:	Online Archive
Date:	Held on March 24, 2010
Grade Level:	Elementary School, Middle School, High School

Description

This Web Seminar took place on March 24, 2010, from 6:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. Eastern Time. Presenting was Eliza Russell, Director of Education Programs for the National Wildlife Federation (NWF), Cindy Wrenn, principal of Signal Hill Elementary in Prince William County, Virginia and Nicole Rousmaniere. In this Seminar, the presentation focused on creating school gardens in terms of steps, support, and ways to integrate into the curriculum. For more information about this web seminar, its presenter(s), read what participants said about it, and to see and download its PowerPoint slides go here.

Ideas For Use

This seminar can be used by new or experienced teachers of biology who are seeking innovative classroom resources. Elementary science teachers will also benefit from attending this seminar. The presenters provide content update for understanding as well as examples of how to teach the material to students.

Discussions

Additional Info

Science Discipline: (mouse over for full classification)	Arthropods Birds Cycles Food web Conservation Renewable resources Classifying Collecting data Communicating Experimenting Hypothesizing Interpreting data Measuring
Intended User Role:	Elementary-Level Educator, High-School Educator, Informal Educator, Middle-Level Educator, New Teacher, Professional Development Provider, Teacher
Educational Issues:	Curriculum, Educational research, Professional development, Teacher content knowledge, Teacher preparation

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Resource Format:

application/msword, application/pdf, application/x-shockwave-flash, audio/mp3, image/gif, image/jpeg, video/quicktime

National Standards Correlation

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Life Science
- Organisms and environments
  - Humans depend on their natural and constructed environments. Humans change environments in ways that can be either beneficial or detrimental for themselves and other organisms.
- Structure and function in living systems
  - Living systems at all levels of organization demonstrate the complementary nature of structure and function (5-8)
- Populations and ecosystems
  - Energy entering ecosystems as sunlight is transferred by producers into chemical energy through photosynthesis. (5-8)

Science in Personal and Social Perspectives
- Natural resources
  - Natural resources have been and will continue to be used to maintain human populations. (9-12)

Process Standards for Professional Development
- Research-Based
  - Address teachers' needs as learners and build on their current knowledge of science content, teaching, and learning. (NSES)
- Design
  - Introduce teachers to scientific literature, media, and technological resources that expand their science knowledge and their ability to access further knowledge. (NSES)
  - Uses learning strategies appropriate to the intended goal. (NSDC)

User Reviews

	Start Here For Outdoor Classroom Advice
	Caryn Meirs (Smithtown, NY) on April 7, 2011
	This webinar has an impressive amount of information and resources embedded in it. Most importantly though it is truly a resource and inspiration for teachers/administrators/community looking to install a true outdoor learning space. If you want to grow a small bed of plants with your class choose a journal article instead. The webinar presenters highlight serious spaces here!

	worth listening to before you undertake a project
	Caryn Meirs (Smithtown, NY) on November 29, 2010
	This webinar has quite a few good ideas and more importantly some great funding information for mini-grants and other designation programs that might help get your schoolyard garden up and running. A few things you should note however - the introduction is long and you need to get through it before the speakers come in - about five minutes in to the recording. Also at 38 minutes the webinar breaks into discussion rooms - definitely great of you are a participant - but on the recording there is a full 7 minutes of radio silence. There are control buttons on the bottom left of the elluminate screen - use them to fast forward through until the discussion resumes. Like all archived webinars, the questions reflect the participants on the day of. It can be somewhat frustrating when the questions being posted are not your question, but there were several points made that I hadn't even thought about, so it was worth the listening time!

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