I know we all are amazed at what young minds can create! If you are interested in having a special- River of Words Day- in your classroom- let's see what we can create!! The inspiring student creations will be a special part of our BioSITE 2010 Open House. See the link below to find out more, and contact Sandy if you want to plan something special for your class.
River of Words
Teaching Poetry to Young People
Milkweed Editions and River of Words have created a free, downloadable teaching guide to help teachers and students learn to write great poetry.
Written by Louisiana master teachers Harriet Maher and Connie MacDonald (2006 River of Words Teacher of the Year), this full-color, 75-page guide, which uses the River of Words anthology River of Words: Young Poets and Artists on the Nature of Things as a text, will help students get beyond pre-conceived notions about poetry, inhibitions and fears, excessive reliance on rhyme, and the thorny host of other impediments to creativity and expression that a poetry assignment often invokes.
Connie and Harriet have created a fun, investigatory, challenging set of classroom activities that we hope will help you to inspire your students to explore both their "inner" worlds and the complicated, endlessly fascinating "outer" world around them.
Find out more about River Of Words here.
Sunday, November 7, 2010
Time to sign up for STEP!
STEP – The Salmon and Trout Education Program is a thematic curriculum designed to enable a teacher to provide students with information about our native salmon and steelhead populations.
STEP Training will provide the teacher with:
• focus of life cycles, habitat preservation, water conservation, and use of natural resources
• field experience in a local stream ecosystem
• ways to create a successful program in the classroom
• a copy of the K-12 STEP curriculum (includes alignment with State Science Standards)
certification for classroom incubation.
CEU credits available
Besides an incredible training, you also get to walk away with your self-made aquaviewer and fishprint T-shirt! Science Resource Kits available for nominal charge (includes CD’s, DVD’s, slide displays, poster)
Registration form can be found here or contact sderby@cdm.org.
STEP Training will provide the teacher with:
• focus of life cycles, habitat preservation, water conservation, and use of natural resources
• field experience in a local stream ecosystem
• ways to create a successful program in the classroom
• a copy of the K-12 STEP curriculum (includes alignment with State Science Standards)
certification for classroom incubation.
CEU credits available
Besides an incredible training, you also get to walk away with your self-made aquaviewer and fishprint T-shirt! Science Resource Kits available for nominal charge (includes CD’s, DVD’s, slide displays, poster)
Registration form can be found here or contact sderby@cdm.org.
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