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Becky Schnekser – Geography Teacher, 2025
This is a cultural geography lesson plan for Pre-K to K-level students to learn about Peruvian culture. It was developed following several expeditions to the Peruvian Amazon between 2018 and 2023 and has been used with students in preschool through kindergarten programming in school and museum settings. In this experience for learners, they will…
Descriptors: Geography Instruction, Lesson Plans, Preschool Children, Kindergarten
Allen Webb, Editor; Richard Beach, Editor; Jeff Share, Editor – Teachers College Press, 2024
Discover how English teachers and their students confront the climate crisis using critical inquiry, focusing on justice, and taking action. Working in today's politically polarized environment, these teachers know first-hand about teaching and learning in communities that support and resist climate education. This much-needed book describes…
Descriptors: English Teachers, Inquiry, Social Justice, Climate
Lester, Greg; MacEachren, Zabe – Pathways: The Ontario Journal of Outdoor Education, 2011
For many educators working with elementary students, it is easy to simplify scientific concepts, but they must always remember that the inherent natural curiosity aroused when their senses interact with the landscape creates the opportunity for the development of interdisciplinary, integrated, higher thinking skills. The authors--one a storyteller…
Descriptors: Science Activities, Scientific Concepts, Thinking Skills, Elementary School Students
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Martínez-Álvarez, Patricia; Bannan, Brenda – Journal of Geoscience Education, 2014
Latino bilingual children hold rich understandings, which are underexplored and underutilized in the geoscience classroom. Oftentimes, young Latinos possess unique cultural land experiences shaping their place identities. We consider science as language and culture, and propose place-based geoscience hybrid space explorations that are culturally…
Descriptors: Bilingual Students, Cultural Influences, Language Usage, Culturally Relevant Education
Elliott, Alison, Ed. – Early Childhood Australia, 2007
"Every Child" is Australia's premier early childhood publication, aimed at anyone involved in the care and education of children from birth to eight years--in particular child care professionals, teachers, child care students and the parents of young children. Published quarterly, it contains informative and entertaining articles on such…
Descriptors: Biodiversity, Foreign Countries, Conservation (Environment), Ecology