Bringing School to Life - Place-Based Education Across the Curriculum

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.

List of contents

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

About the author

By Sarah K. Anderson

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Sarah K Anderson, Sarah K. Anderson
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.11.2017
• EAN: 9781475830613
• ISBN: 978-1-4758-3061-3
• No. of pages: 200
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 222 mm x 19 mm
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Teaching materials, hand-outs; Humanities, art, music > Education > Education system; EDUCATION / Professional Development, EDUCATION / Curricula, Organization & management of education, Educational administration and organization, EDUCATION / Teaching / General, EDUCATION / Teaching / Methods & Strategies