http://www.educationthatinspires.ca/2019/02/19/of-frogs-and-fishes-understanding-inquiry-as-a-pedagogical-method/
LINK TO ALBERTA CURRICULUM:
https://www.learnalberta.ca/content/mychildslearning/grade5.html#3
Other Examples of Inquiry Teaching:
https://galileo.org/
Information about what inquiry learning is:
https://www.thirteen.org/edonline/concept2class/
Informative rubric of effective teaching practices in Inquiry:
https://www.galileo.org/cea-2009-wdydist-teaching.pdf
Amazing books:
LINK TO ALBERTA CURRICULUM:
https://www.learnalberta.ca/content/mychildslearning/grade5.html#3
Other Examples of Inquiry Teaching:
https://galileo.org/
Information about what inquiry learning is:
https://www.thirteen.org/edonline/concept2class/
Informative rubric of effective teaching practices in Inquiry:
https://www.galileo.org/cea-2009-wdydist-teaching.pdf
Amazing books:
Interesting talks from the #MADpd:
Grants and Projects for students to get involved:
September
River of words: https://www.stmarys-ca.edu/row-student-entry-form
Jane goodall: https://janegoodall.ca/our-work/roots-and-shoots/ape-fund/apply/
Education Partnership Foundation: https://tepf.ca/environmental-actions-program/
APEGA https://www.apega.ca/educators-students/educators/innovation-education-awards/
Eco-legue funding: http://ourcanadaproject.ca/apply-for-funding/
TEPF: https://tepf.ca/apply-environmental-actions-program/
October
November
International Education Week: https://www.alberta.ca/international-education-week.aspx?utm_source=redirector
December
January
https://www.apega.ca/educators/innovation-education-awards/
http://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/261c02_381970b521724e6687884dd6297984a9.pdf
Boat -Ocean Exploration Trust
June:
https://risingyouth.ca/csc (must be 15-30 to apply)
ALL YEAR:
https://www.nationalgeographic.org/funding-opportunities/grants/what-we-fund/
https://www.fortisalberta.com/about-us/in-your-community/community-investment
ATA: https://www.teachers.ab.ca/For%20Members/ProgramsandServices/GrantsAwardsandScholarships/Pages/GrantsAwardsandScholarships.aspx
Alberta Parks: https://albertaparks.ca/parks/kananaskis/kananaskis-country/education/environmental-education-programs-resources/specialized-teacher-workshops/
Workshops in Alberta: https://www.crcpd.ab.ca/programs
National Geographic - Educational Opportunities
Google Earth
Citizen Science
Sketch Notes
Virtual Reality (thanks to Alexandra Sorin)
More Cool Stuff
https://sites.google.com/view/outdooreducationcollective/home?authuser=1
https://static1.squarespace.com/static/56f1b6cbe707ebc63b90b4ef/t/5902bdebbebafb271edcbdaf/1493351957681/ISGMguide-2017s.pdf
River of words: https://www.stmarys-ca.edu/row-student-entry-form
Jane goodall: https://janegoodall.ca/our-work/roots-and-shoots/ape-fund/apply/
Education Partnership Foundation: https://tepf.ca/environmental-actions-program/
APEGA https://www.apega.ca/educators-students/educators/innovation-education-awards/
Eco-legue funding: http://ourcanadaproject.ca/apply-for-funding/
TEPF: https://tepf.ca/apply-environmental-actions-program/
October
November
International Education Week: https://www.alberta.ca/international-education-week.aspx?utm_source=redirector
December
January
https://www.apega.ca/educators/innovation-education-awards/
http://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/261c02_381970b521724e6687884dd6297984a9.pdf
Boat -Ocean Exploration Trust
June:
https://risingyouth.ca/csc (must be 15-30 to apply)
ALL YEAR:
https://www.nationalgeographic.org/funding-opportunities/grants/what-we-fund/
https://www.fortisalberta.com/about-us/in-your-community/community-investment
ATA: https://www.teachers.ab.ca/For%20Members/ProgramsandServices/GrantsAwardsandScholarships/Pages/GrantsAwardsandScholarships.aspx
Alberta Parks: https://albertaparks.ca/parks/kananaskis/kananaskis-country/education/environmental-education-programs-resources/specialized-teacher-workshops/
Workshops in Alberta: https://www.crcpd.ab.ca/programs
National Geographic - Educational Opportunities
- Educator Certification
- Learning Framework - teach how to think like an Explorer
- Online Educator Network - like twitter if it was only passionate teachers!
- GeoInquiry and other online courses
- Open Explorer - 850 Digital Field Journals, can follow and get updates; map based
- Educator Grants - for environmental projects designed by students and research
- GeoChallenge - student contest to combat plastic pollution
- Grosvenor Teacher Fellowship - travel the world with Nat Geo and Lindblad Expeditions!
Google Earth
- Google Earth
- Idealized version of the world in spring - try 3D, 360, street view
- Street View Time Machine - Use Clock icon to show change over time
- Time Lapse
- 33 years of data, 5,000,000 of scenes analyzed, 3 Quadrillion Pixels
- Case Studies Ex: Dubai, Columbia Glacier
- Voyager - Ship’s Wheel on L or start with search bar and look under Voyager Stories section
- Includes Earth at Night, This Is Home (indigenous life) and This is School
- Searching for Home - from Lion movie
- Google Earth Studio
- Can create very high quality video tours to add into any video editing software
- New Creation Tools are coming
- Similar to combination My Maps and Tour Builder
Citizen Science
- iNaturalist - record observations and share with community and discuss finding, social network; Seek is a specialized version for littles
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility - open source global data
- Global Explorer - the shared human story; and Globe
- Litterati for a trash free world app and Marine Debris Tracker - catalog any trash for global community
- Polar Collective Citizen Science at the Poles
Sketch Notes
- Visual Notetaking - Wendi Pillars
- Wendi’s Blog; ProCreate A; SketchBook
- Simple visuals convey complex ideas - ask them to explain their thinking and show you more
- KEY: “How can we represent that with a visual?”
- Sunni Brown - Summary; Ted Talk; Doug Neill An Introduction and courses
Virtual Reality (thanks to Alexandra Sorin)
- Bring your lessons to life with Expeditions | Google for Educationedu.google.com
- VR in the Classroom: Early lessons learned from Google Expeditions - Google I/O 2016youtu.be
- Beyond the Frame: The New Classroomyoutu.be
- Best 360 Camera Apps for iPhone and Android: Secrets of Development.gbksoft.com
More Cool Stuff
- Lindblad Expeditions - use daily reports from every ship for research, follow ships live
- Video Editing App - Adobe Clip
- NAAEE - North American Association Environmental Educators - free online PD
- Youth Conservation Corp - 15-18 year olds work in Yellowstone for the summer
- Teach the Sustainable Development Goals
https://sites.google.com/view/outdooreducationcollective/home?authuser=1
https://static1.squarespace.com/static/56f1b6cbe707ebc63b90b4ef/t/5902bdebbebafb271edcbdaf/1493351957681/ISGMguide-2017s.pdf
Awards:
Jack Layton Award:
http://lsf-lst.ca/en/projects/education-sustainable/competitions/jack-layton-award/2017-jack-layton-award-for-youth-action-in-sustainability
Emerald foundation awards:
https://emeraldfoundation.ca/
http://lsf-lst.ca/en/projects/education-sustainable/competitions/jack-layton-award/2017-jack-layton-award-for-youth-action-in-sustainability
Emerald foundation awards:
https://emeraldfoundation.ca/
Free Webinars:
Green Teacher: http://greenteacher.com/webinars/