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Workshop Detail: Thursday, July 23, 2009
(1-6): The Whole Earth is My Family: How to Use Place-Based Learning for Self-Esteem Building and Health in the Younger Grades
presented by
Abe Louise Young, MA, MFA
Curriculum Developed by Austin EcoSchool
When children bond with nature on school grounds, they feel true ecology—home knowledge. Learn to use harness the child’s emotional connection to the life around them to create a caring ecovillage. Use science, art, writing, and small group work to make friends with the trees, rocks, sky, insects, people, and other forms of life at your school.
The younger grades are the perfect place to nurture deep ecology –- an understanding that all life on Earth fits together and what affects one, affects all.
In this workshop, we will experience and model a variety of methods for building empathy and connection to nature, self, and others.
The land and life your school is on is the book that children learn to read.
Methods explored include: place-based historical inquiry, Watercolor painting, tree research, song and story.
Trainer: Abe Louise Young, M.F.A : Abe Louise Young is a writer, teacher and editor who works with innovative education projects around the country. She is Editor of Hip Deep: Opinion, Essays, and Vision from American Teenagers (Next Generation Press, 2006), is a teacher at the Austin EcoSchool, writes for www.WhatKidsCanDo.org.
Summer Institute, a component of the MIDAS Project, is supported by a