Featuring Examples from Westminster Woods and Warner Park Nature Center By Emilie Lygren Note: Huge thanks to Rachel Anderson and her colleagues at the Warner Park Nature Center, and Rebekah Jones and her colleagues at Westminster Woods, for creating the videos featured below and for sharing ideas and expertise in the interview at the end […] The post Creating Learner and Nature-Centered Videos appeared first on Beetles Project.| Beetles Project
By Emilie Lygren and Jedda Foreman Over the last couple of years, the BEETLES team has been working to revise our professional learning system, including our guiding principles, student activities, professional learning sessions, and other implementation support materials, to better reflect equitable, inclusive, and culturally relevant teaching practices. When we first started BEETLES, we thought […] The post Partnering to Develop Equitable, Inclusive, and Culturally Relevant Student Activi...| Beetles Project
By Jedda Foreman, Rena Payan, Laura Rodriguez, and Craig Strang “We will not go back to normal. Normal never was. Our pre-corona existence was not normal other than we normalized greed, inequity, exhaustion, depletion, extraction, disconnection, confusion, rage, hoarding, hate, and lack. We should not long to return, my friends. We are being given the […] The post Racial Equity in Outdoor Science and Environmental Education: Re-Establishing the Field with Intention appeared first on Beetl...| Beetles Project
We want to acknowledge the recent racist events and killings in Minnesota, New York, Georgia, Kentucky, California, and other locations around the country. These events are not by any means isolated, nor is the racism that underlies them. We stand, unequivocally, in solidarity with the protests, marches, and global momentum that has come in response, […] The post Statement in Support of Black Lives Matter appeared first on Beetles Project.| Beetles Project
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By Emilie Lygren, Kevin Beals, and Jedda Foreman What can effective virtual outdoor science experiences look like? Amid school closures and the suspension of in-person programming, this is a pressing question in the field of outdoor science and environmental education. Like many others, we are just starting to dip our toes into best practices in distance […] The post Designing Outdoor Science and Environmental Education Distance Learning Experiences appeared first on Beetles Project.| Beetles Project
Below, we’ve assembled answers to some of the most common questions we get over email about the use of BEETLES resources, and other BEETLES-related things. Questions About Using BEETLES Resources Can I present a BEETLES Professional Learning Session to my staff? Yes!! Anyone is welcome to download and teach a BEETLES Professional Learning Session (whether […] The post FAQ’s About BEETLES appeared first on Beetles Project.| Beetles Project
How can we honor Black History Month within the context of outdoor and environmental education? There is a lot of work to be done to fully acknowledge the history and contributions of Black leaders in outdoor spaces, and to support Black leadership in the present moment which means addressing issues of equity and inclusion more […] The post Reflections on Black History Month appeared first on Beetles Project.| Beetles Project
How can we honor Black History Month within the context of outdoor and environmental education? There is a lot of work to be done to address issues of equity and inclusion, and to acknowledge the history and contributions of black leaders in outdoor spaces. Below are some actions we commit to, and that we encourage […] The post A Reflection on Black History Month appeared first on Beetles Project.| Beetles Project