Designing your NGSS Schoolyard Habitat
Learn how to design a project that will bring your teaching to life!
QUESTIONS? Contact Laurel.Anderson@schoolgardens.org
This is a great workshop for garden educators and classroom teachers to come as a team as it provides useful information on bridging garden programs with classroom science activities.
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? 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.
Outdoor learning environments make it easy to meet the Science and Engineering Practices for K- 8.
Laurel Anderson will share how you can incorporate habitat design features such as pollinator patches, Monarch ways stations, insect hotels, songbird nesting boxes, rain gardens at your school campus.
Learn about exciting Citizen Science programs that engage student learning using Science and Engineering practices
Open your eyes to a whole realm of pollinators in the garden- the many fascinating species of California native bees with entymologist Janet Calhoun!
This workshop is a pre-requisite for SGN’s Schoolyard Habitat grant. Learn more about our program HERE.
Many thanks to US Fish & Wildlife Service for their generous support of this program.
Outdoor learning environments make it easy to meet the Science and Engineering Practices for K- 8.
Laurel Anderson will share how you can incorporate habitat design features such as pollinator patches, Monarch ways stations, insect hotels, songbird nesting boxes, rain gardens at your school campus.
Learn about exciting Citizen Science programs that engage student learning using Science and Engineering practices
Open your eyes to a whole realm of pollinators in the garden- the many fascinating species of California native bees with entymologist Janet Calhoun!
This workshop is a pre-requisite for SGN’s Schoolyard Habitat grant. Learn more about our program HERE.
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. |
QUESTIONS? Contact Laurel.Anderson@schoolgardens.org
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