TEACHING IN NATURE'S CLASSROOM
Join School Garden Network for a day of exploration, activities, and peer sharing on how to engage students in the outdoors through both the arts and ecological stewardship!
School gardens offer hands-on learning opportunities where conceptual knowledge can be brought to life and made more accessible, tangible, exciting, and inspiring. As part of SGN's Schoolyard Habitat Program, this workshop will support educators in engaging students in the outdoors to foster curiosity, exploration, play, creativity, and ecological literacy and stewardship. Come to connect, share, learn, and grow together!
In the afternoon there will be an opportunity for workshop participants to briefly share a lesson or activity they have found useful or inspiring in their own school gardens. If you would like to share with the group, please mark your interest when you register.
All workshop participants will also receive a copy of the Teaching in Nature’s Classroom booklet, free access to five weeks of lessons from the award winning Symbiotic Schoolyard, and other curricular resources and ideas shared throughout the day.
In the afternoon there will be an opportunity for workshop participants to briefly share a lesson or activity they have found useful or inspiring in their own school gardens. If you would like to share with the group, please mark your interest when you register.
All workshop participants will also receive a copy of the Teaching in Nature’s Classroom booklet, free access to five weeks of lessons from the award winning Symbiotic Schoolyard, and other curricular resources and ideas shared throughout the day.
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Details:
When: Thursday, October 5, 9am-4pm
Where: Fibershed Learning Center (14000 Point Reyes - Petaluma Road, Point Reyes Station)
Fee: $45 per individual or $35 per group participant (we encourage you to participate as school teams!)
A fresh lunch will also be provided (V and VG options available)
When: Thursday, October 5, 9am-4pm
Where: Fibershed Learning Center (14000 Point Reyes - Petaluma Road, Point Reyes Station)
Fee: $45 per individual or $35 per group participant (we encourage you to participate as school teams!)
- $35 per individual early registration discount if you register before September 12
- If you work at a disadvantaged/underserved school, please contact [email protected] regarding a discount before you register
A fresh lunch will also be provided (V and VG options available)
workshop agenda:
~Mingling & Coffee~
9am: Welcome by School Garden Network
9:45am-1pm: Morning Presentations with Hands-on Activities:
1:45-4pm: Peer curriculum sharing:
9am: Welcome by School Garden Network
- Getting to know each other
9:45am-1pm: Morning Presentations with Hands-on Activities:
- Nature Journaling with Kids with Marley Peifer
- Symbiotic Schoolyard: Create Wildlife Habitat as the anchor to an NGSS-aligned Ecosystem Unit with Janneke Petersen
1:45-4pm: Peer curriculum sharing:
- This is a chance for participants to share their favourite habitat-inspired lesson or activity with the group, with each presentation being 5-10 minutes + questions and discussion
- As a followup to SGN's Fiber Arts Workshop, part of the afternoon session will also include a demonstration on how to harvest, dry, store, and use native flowers that were planted in the Spring!
- If you are interested in sharing a lesson or activity with the group, please mark your interest when you register
GUEST Presenters:
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Marley Peifer (he/him), Nature Journaler & Educator
Marley is a nature journaler and educator. He longs for a reintegration of art with science and words with images, a synthesis that he develops in his journals. Nature Journaling became a fundamental practice for Marley when he discovered how it could synthesize his interests and accelerate his learning. As an educator, Marley is constantly sharing, inspiring, and provoking learning in nature and on paper. |
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Janneke Petersen (she/her), Curriculum Curator of Symbiotic Schoolyard
Janneke Petersen is on a mission to spark a national movement of science teachers restoring biodiversity to their schoolyard as a part of a high-quality, NGSS aligned ecosystem unit. She is passionate about supporting Symbiotic Schoolyard teachers in doing this. She has ten years of combined experience as a middle school science classroom teacher and outdoor environmental educator. She also has a Masters in Science and Curriculum Instruction from the University of Washington and has written curriculum professionally for Educurious and other organizations. |
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Heather Podoll (she/her), Fibershed Learning Center
Heather holds an M.S. in Agricultural Ecology from UC Davis, and has spent the past 20 years involved with research, practice, promotion, and teaching of sustainable and organic agricultural systems. As an avid knitter, she is delighted to bring together her background in ecological research and agricultural systems with a holistic and local perspective on fiber arts and textile systems. |
Please help us spread the word about this workshop by sharing this flyer with your school garden communities. Click here for a PDF.
This workshop is hosted in partnership with these organizations
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QUESTIONS? Contact [email protected]