Top Ten Tips for Teaching Outside – Middle and High School
There are lots of reasons to learn outside. If you are thinking about trying out teaching in the outdoors, check out these tips.
The Branch Archive : 2010
Top Ten Tips for Teaching Outside – Elementary
There are lots of reasons to learn outside. If you are thinking about trying out teaching in the outdoors, check out these tips.
Top Ten Tips for Teaching Outside – Early Childhood
There are lots of reasons to learn outside. If you are thinking about trying out teaching in the outdoors, check out these tips.
8 Differentiated Instruction Techniques to Reach Diverse Learners
Try these teaching ideas to provide students with different learning styles and abilities multiple avenues to acquire and process content.
Why Teach Outside?
Nature helps children’s development–intellectually, emotionally, socially, spiritually, and physically. Studies show that teaching outdoors produces student gains in social studies, science, language arts and math.
Lab Coats Paint a Thousand Words
Create your own painted lab coats! These powerful visual tools engage students in learning about science and the environment.
Tips for Setting Up a Community Garden
Last year, Randolph Middle School in Charlotte, NC, received a PLT GreenWorks! grant to initiate a community garden on our school grounds. Randolph is an urban school with diverse enrollment. Its student body comes from 32 different countries and 52 percent of its students receive free or reduced lunch. Now students can grow organic vegetables outside and in… Read more »
Teaching Teachers to Teach with PLT
As an educator of pre-service teachers, my hope and advice to all teachers is that you learn along with the children you teach. The more you (whether you are an aspiring teacher, new to the profession, or a veteran) see and value yourself as a learner too, the easier it becomes to allow children the… Read more »