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Learning Landscape: Kids Monitor Terrain with Tech

deck:  Students at this Minnesota elementary school use new technology to study the ancient ecology of a vast prairie wetland. More to this story. Media Info media path:  media/hughes/hughes media ...

Media - 5/14/2008

Jon Young: Tracker, Naturalist, and Teacher

deck:  The cofounder of the Wilderness Awareness School, an innovator in combining native mentoring techniques with the tools of modern field ecology, offers some antidotes to nature-deficit disorder. More to this story. ...

Media - 4/7/2008

Learning by Design: The Build San Francisco Institute's School-to-Career Program

deck:  Architectural projects and internships help students build math and science skills. More to this story. Media Info media path:  media/3322_buildsf/buildsf media width:  406 ...

Media - 5/5/2008

School of Environmental Studies: Taking Class Outdoors

deck:  At this Minnesota school focused on problem solving, the academic program and the architecture were designed to promote interdisciplinary project-based learning. More to this story. Media Info media path:&nbs ...

Media - 4/21/2008

Wetland Watchers: Kids Care for Their Environment

deck:  Through this nationally recognized service-learning project, students have become stewards of the area's fragile wetlands. More to this story. Media Info media path:  media/1208_hurst/hurst ...

Media - 5/8/2008

The Geo-Literacy Project: Students Use Technology to Explore Their World

deck:  Teacher Eva La Mar's third graders become historians, writers, and videographers as they explore the geography and geology of their community. More to this story. Media Info media path:  media/1042_ ...

Media - 4/7/2008

Team Learning: Teaching Students to Work Together

deck:  Integrated curricula, team teaching, and technology tools have built up the academic achievement and self-esteem of these rural Louisiana middle school students. More to this story. Media Info media path:&nbs ...

Media - 4/7/2008

Toad Tracking: Science and More Through NatureMapping

deck:  Through their work in a nationwide project, fourth-grade students hone their reading, writing, and math skills while making meaningful contributions to science. More to this story. Media Info media path:  ...

Media - 5/15/2008

West Hawaii Explorations Academy: Science and History Lessons Come from Restoring Ancient Ponds

deck:  At this coastal school, students develop and manage their own projects, with guidance from mentors from the community. More to this story. Media Info media path:  media/0885_whea/whea media ...

Media - 4/7/2008

Marking Time: Back to the Future on Web 2.0

Karen Kliegman wants her students at Searingtown School, in Albertson, New York, to view themselves as docents -- knowledgeable guides who can lead their class along the route of a famous seventeenth-century explorer. And she has found the technology to ...

Article - - 4/10/2008