Sarah K. Anderson

Bringing School to Life

Place-Based Education Across the Curriculum

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Produktbeschreibung

Bringing School to Life: Place-Based Education across the Curriculum offers insights into how to build a program across the K-8 grades. Anderson addresses key elements such as mapping, local history, citizen science, and integrated curricula. She suggests strategies for building community partnerships and implementation for primary grades.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 202
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. November 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 336g
• ISBN-13: 9781475830613
• ISBN-10: 1475830610
• Artikelnr.: 48894399

Autorenporträt

Sarah Anderson taught middle school humanities for several years before becoming the fieldwork and place-based education coordinator at The Cottonwood School of Civics and Science in Portland, Oregon. Recently she has been helping teachers from around the Pacific Northwest design place-based education curriculum for their classrooms.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword David Sobel, MEd, Teaching Faculty, Education, Antioch University
Preface Acknowledgements Chapter 1: What is Place-based Education and Why
Do We Need It Now? Chapter 2: Mapping Chapter 3: Community Science Chapter
4: Making History Local and Relevant Chapter 5: Authentic Integration:
Addressing Core Content through Place-based Projects Chapter 6: The Civic
Classroom Chapter 7: Partnerships as Opportunity: Natural Segues into
Learning Chapter 8: Empathy, Play, and Place-based Education in the Primary
Grades Chapter 9: Middle School: Conflict, Service, and Active Citizenship
Chapter 10: Implementing Place-based Education and Other Questions About
the Author