Full course description
Course Description
- PLTs Explore Your Environment: K-8 Activity Guide training provides support for making the most of the guide. It includes strategies for leading activities outdoors, activity simulations, video demonstrations, reflection questions, and action planning that help connect children to nature and increase young people’s awareness and knowledge about their environment. Activities integrate teaching about the environment into a multitude of subjects using hands-on classroom studies and outdoor field investigations. This supplementary curriculum is multidisciplinary, with an emphasis on science, reading, writing, mathematics, and social studies. It is designed to develop students’ critical thinking and problem-solving skills. The activities are inquiry-based and present students with real-world opportunities to apply STEM.
- Lead Learner (Facilitator): Beth Church | Kimberly Rankin
- Credit(s) and Type: 6 Hours Relicensure | Staff Development
Target Audience
- Admin/Pro-Tech, Certified Staff, Classified Staff
- Open to Substitute Teachers = Not at this time
- Open to Student Teachers = Not at this time
- Open to Charter School Staff = Not at this time
Meeting Information
- Dates: Asynchronous Work February 2-9, In Person February 11
- Time: 5:00 - 7:00 PM
- Location: Legacy Campus Room 245 | 10035 S Peoria St, Lone Tree, 80134
Course Outcomes
Here are the outcomes for the course:
- Lead activities outdoors and meet your teaching objectives by using the guide’s activities and recommended strategies.
- Modify and scaffold PLT activities as needed to honor youths’ contexts, backgrounds, and strengths and shape activities based on their culture, race, and ethnicity.
- Build units of instruction using PLT activities to support the achievement of instructional goals (e.g., academic standards, teaching outdoors, STEM).