Place-Based Education: An Ecology Unit
Chris Wyland
For the third episode in a three-part series on place-based education in science, we welcome Chris Wyland to the show. Chris is a middle school math and science teacher at the Cottonwood School of Civics and Science in Portland, where the focus of the entire school is encouraging exploration of the natural world and involvement in the local community through the arts and sciences. Continuing our discussion of place-based education in science, Chris joins us to explain this approach in an ecology unit where his middle school students are partnering with the Portland Parks and Recreation Department to apply their scientific knowledge in fieldwork that benefits their local community.
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Links:
- Episode 183: Exploring Place-Based Education in Science
- Episode 184: Place-Based Education – Looking at the Research
- The Cottonwood School of Civics and Science
- Bringing School to Life: Place-based Education across the Curriculum (a book written about the Cottonwood School written by their fieldwork coordinator)
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