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Marilyn FensterElementary Teacher
Gail HanssElementary Teacher
Robin Long7-12 Biology Teacher
Kids Afield Team
With support from Dr. S
mith,
Lower School Division Head
Kids AfieldKids Afield
Robin Longearthwalkertoo@gmail.com
Kids AfieldKids Afield Na ture & Te chno lo g yNa ture & Te chno lo g y•What•Why origins origins researchresearch
• How inside outside
•Learning children's teachers’ sharing
Resources
& Extensions
Which applies most to your current work situation?
a) Teacher: students, ages 4 - 9
b) Teacher: students, ages 10 - 13
c) Teacher: students, ages 14 – 18
d) Administrator, Program Director, etc.
Familiarity with the tool
a) Familiar - use
b) Familiar - never used
c) Unfamiliar
Familiarity with the tool
a) Familiar - use
b) Familiar- never used
c) Unfamiliar
Kids AfieldKids Afield Na ture & Te chno lo g yNa ture & Te chno lo g y•What•Why origins origins researchresearch
• How inside outside
•Learning children's teachers’ sharing
Resources
& Extensions
Cameras & K
ids = Citiz
en Naturalis
t
User Camera Studyempathy
…seeing world through another’s eyes…understand environments in new way
bootleg@dschool.stanford.edu
Citizen Naturalists
OR
• limits field of focus • archives experiences
• employs “hybrid thinking”
• high intrinsic motivator
• empowers students
.
I believe that a central goal of modern education should be to encourage such flexible thinking, to nurture the hybrid mind — to stimulate both ways of knowing in the world: digital and direct experience.
Richard Louv
The ideal scientist thinks like a poet and works like a
bookkeeper.
E.O. Wilson
When I get my images home from a day of shooting, I’m nearly always amazed at the details that I hadn’t
noticed in the field.Charles J. Smith
3 Key ResourcesTime outdoorsAdult respect for outdoors
for children’s ideas, activities
1. Kid-Cameras 2. Introduce w/focus 3. Agency
• fit kids’ hands• tough!• easy to use• $ 30 – 35
• require batteries
2. Introduce w/focus
3. Agency
Cameras as valued toolsCare of equipmentCare of one anotherCare of spaceCare of life sharing space
How Birds became a Class Focus
Valuing students’ interests
Authentic Assessment: StudentsExplain why they took the picture…pre-writers put the starting letterof the word – later a teacher helps transcribe
Birds – the kid-connection that stuck!
BENEFITS
Present all yearGlobal Connections via migrationInquiry Learning arises naturallyArt, Music, WritingStrong intrinsic attraction
Great Free online Resources
Jay Stetzer
..John Burroughs, “Knowledge without love will not stick. But if love comes first, knowledge is sure to follow.” It’s our responsibility as parents and teachers to make sure that love comes first. David Sobel, Orion Magazine, July/August 2012
Imagination & Play The Discovery of Mouse Town
Resource materials for Kids Afield are archivedAt :
http://storify.com/earthwalker/kids-afield
woodswalkertoo@gmail.com
twitter.com/earthwalkertoo
connectchildrenntonature.wikispaces.com
PHOTOGRAPH CHANGES OVER TIME PLANTS or areas of plants
SIGNS OF LIFE: leaf being consumed, animals prints, decaying log, leaf litter, emerging buds, etc.
EROSION TRACES of water flow
PATTERNS left by mud SKY
MATERIALS left out for animals (bird food, fruit, etc) A PUDDLE
SIGNS of human movement in and out of an areaSNOW melting
DATA - INQUIRY DRIVENShadows - Plant growth - Leaf drop -Color changes – Bird nest materials –
Bird feeder experiments – Trash –Spider webs – Plant damage – Melting-Visual changes with temperature or light
Photo scavenger hunt- Identifying plants & ” bugs” –
Camouflage challenges – Story or poetry starters – ‘favorites’-
Kid-generated Games/Activities
Photos from Student Generated Nest Material Experiment
Grades 7 & 8
Nature Photo
Elective
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