Designing your NGSS Schoolyard Habitat
Learn how to design a project that will bring your teaching to life!
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Date: September 25, 2019
Time: 9am-3:30pm Fee: $45, $35 before 9/18, or with a team member Location: Ceres Garden, Sebastopol Please register and then mail a check to: SGN P.O. Box 1367 Sebastopol, CA 95473 |
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You know your school garden is a living labratory, but how can you use Next Generation Science and Engineering Standards to prepare your students in a meaningful and lasting way? We can show you how.
Provided with the right tools, you can create ecologically sound habitats like pollinating patches, songbird nesting boxes, rain gardens, wetland zones, nature trails and more.
These spaces make it easy to meet the Science and Engineering Practices for K- 8:
• Asking questions and defining problems
• Developing and using models
• Planning and carrying out investigations
• Analyzing and interpreting data
• Using mathematics and computational thinking
• Constructing explanations and designing solutions •
• Engaging in argument from evidence
• Obtaining, evaluating, and communicating information
Anna Babarinde, the Science curriculum specialist from SCOE, will show you how to lead a three dimensional lesson with a garden-based challenge that helps students make observations, develop models, analyze and interpret data, and construct an argument. Everyone will practice identifying local, relevant phenomena that students can study in your outdoor classroom/garden.
Laurel Anderson will talk about habitat design and meaningful Citizen Science programs that can be linked to your outdoor learning environment
Entymologist Janet Calhoun will teach us about the many local native bees and how to study them in your school gardens.
This workshop is a pre-requisite for SGN’s Schoolyard Habitat grant.
Many thanks to US Fish & Wildlife Service for their generous support of this program.
Provided with the right tools, you can create ecologically sound habitats like pollinating patches, songbird nesting boxes, rain gardens, wetland zones, nature trails and more.
These spaces make it easy to meet the Science and Engineering Practices for K- 8:
• Asking questions and defining problems
• Developing and using models
• Planning and carrying out investigations
• Analyzing and interpreting data
• Using mathematics and computational thinking
• Constructing explanations and designing solutions •
• Engaging in argument from evidence
• Obtaining, evaluating, and communicating information
Anna Babarinde, the Science curriculum specialist from SCOE, will show you how to lead a three dimensional lesson with a garden-based challenge that helps students make observations, develop models, analyze and interpret data, and construct an argument. Everyone will practice identifying local, relevant phenomena that students can study in your outdoor classroom/garden.
Laurel Anderson will talk about habitat design and meaningful Citizen Science programs that can be linked to your outdoor learning environment
Entymologist Janet Calhoun will teach us about the many local native bees and how to study them in your school gardens.
This workshop is a pre-requisite for SGN’s Schoolyard Habitat grant.
Many thanks to US Fish & Wildlife Service for their generous support of this program.
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Anna Van Dordrecht is the Curriculum Coordinator for Science at the Sonoma County Office of Education. Anna is involved in the implementation of the Next Generation Science Standards at both the state and local level. She also works locally and nationally on integrating disciplines in the context of STEAM and how to pair maker education and other 21st century learning tools with content to make their use in the classroom sustainable. Prior to working at the county level, Anna taught high school earth science and biology for ten years. She has a degree in biology from the University of California, San Diego and a masters in education from the University of California, Berkeley.
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Laurel Anderson is a founding member of the School Garden Network. She worked as the garden teacher for 14 years at Salmon Creek School where she loved to cook up the harvest with students and look for interesting insects!
She currently is the coordinator of SGN’s Schoolyard Habitat Program- providing professional development opportunities and helping schools design and use habitat projects as an extension of the classroom. Laurel is also passionate about seedsaving and is very active with the Community Seed Exchange. |