• Teachers attend a one-day workshop in the fall to learn how to raise Chinook salmon with their students in their classroom, and release them into a nearby river in the fall. The Salmon in the Classroom program is the seemingly limitless subject matter that can easily cover benchmarks in mathematics, social studies, language and arts,...
Match a Leaf to the right tree A tree that hasn’t started to grow yet...a seed! Red Rocks Something BLUE A Feather Smell a Flower Something that makes NOISE! A sign that an animal has been here. A piece of litter A leaf with teeth Something YOU like A camouflaged animal or insect Something ROUND A cone from an evergreen STOP!...
Make it a priority If it’s not a priority, it won’t happen – given the realities of curriculums, testing, etc. Incorporate nature into the classroom on a consistent basis rather than sporadically – it will build your bag of tricks and your confidence. Set a goal that’s doable. Ex: introduce 1 new nature infusion a week vs. re-doing your whole classroom to be nature...
“To forget how to dig the earth and to tend the soil is to forget ourselves.”
- Mohandas K. Gandhi
- Mohandas K. Gandhi
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