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To kick off the 2014-2015 School Year, the Living Coast Discovery Center will be hosting a Brunch for Teachers on . . .
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If you could have a hands-on, high interest field trip within walking distance to your classroom, where you could teach language arts, math, science, health, and more, wouldn't you want to make it happen?
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Join NOAA’s Office of Ocean Exploration and Research’s Judith Coats as you are introduced to Volume 2 of the Okeanos Explorer Education Materials Collection: How Do We Explore?
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As this historic drought continues, it’s easy to see how dependent we are on water. Allowing students at a young age to explore . . .
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Environmental Education In Action
EEI in a Local 3rd Grade Classroom
The students at Dingeman Elementary will never look back and wonder where science was in their 3rd grade class. Their teacher, Mrs. Church, brings science alive using EEI, a real worm compost bin in the classroom, and the school garden! Mrs. Church starts the year off using the EEI science unit on Decomposers as a wonderful way to help her students understand why they have a composting bin in class. Her students do the first lesson which is the banana decomposition experiment and each child keeps his own sample in a ziplock on their desk for four days. Once the students are comfortable with decomposition and composting, they feed the worms their snack and lunch scraps and take turns stirring the composting bin and adding water when necessary. Eventually the students get to use the compost in their school gardens.
After a few more days spent on the Healthy Ecosystems unit, the students take their learning outside. The teachers at DIngeman created school gardens where their students can see first hand various life cycles and the relationships between living and nonliving things in an ecosystem. They are even in the process of adding a butterfly and wildlife habitat area to our current gardens. The students are also getting the chance to create an use a native plant garden in their school yard with the help of the local Gardener's program. What a great example of EEI, CREEC, and great teaching coming together for kids!
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