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Kids afield presentation
1. Kids Afield
Marilyn Fenster
Elementary Teacher
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Robin Long
7-12 Biology Teacher
Robin Long
earthwalkertoo@gmail.com
2. K Afield Na ture & Te c hno lo g y
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3. Which applies most to your current work situation?
a) Teacher: students, ages 4 - 9
b) Teacher: students, ages 10 - 13
c) Teacher: students, ages 14 – 18
d) Administrator, Program Director, etc.
4. Familiarity with the tool
a) Familiar - use
b) Familiar - never used
c) Unfamiliar
5. Familiarity with the tool
a) Familiar - use
b) Familiar- never used
c) Unfamiliar
6. K Afield Na ture & Te c hno lo g y
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origins
research
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children's
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9. • limits field of focus
• archives experiences
• employs “hybrid thinking”
• high intrinsic motivator
• empowers students
10. The ideal scientist
thinks like a poet
and works like a
bookkeeper.
E.O. Wilson
I believe that a central goal of
modern education should be to
encourage such flexible
thinking, to nurture the hybrid
mind — to stimulate both ways
of knowing in the world: digital
and direct experience.
Richard Louv
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When I get my images home from a day of shooting,
I’m nearly always amazed at the details that I hadn’t
noticed in the field.
Charles J. Smith
11. 3 Key Resources
Time outdoors
Adult respect
for outdoors
for children’s ideas, activities
12. 1. Kid-Cameras
2. Introduce w/focus
3. Agency
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fit kids’ hands
tough!
easy to use
$ 30 – 35
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require batteries
13. 2. Introduce w/focus
Cameras as valued tools
Care of equipment
Care of one another
Care of space
Care of life sharing space
3. Agency
Valuing students’ interests
How Birds became a Class Focus
16. Birds – the kid-connection that stuck!
Great Free online Resources
BENEFITS
Present all year
Global Connections via migration
Inquiry Learning arises naturally
Art, Music, Writing
Strong intrinsic attraction
17. Imagination & Play
The Discovery of Mouse Town
Jay Stetzer
..John Burroughs, “Knowledge without
love will not stick. But if love comes
first, knowledge is sure to follow.” It’s
our responsibility as parents and
teachers to make sure that love comes
first.
David Sobel, Orion Magazine,
July/August 2012
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24. Resource materials for Kids Afield are archived
At :
http://storify.com/earthwalker/kids-afield
woodswalkertoo@gmail.com
twitter.com/earthwalkertoo
connectchildrenntonature.wikispaces.com
25. PHOTOGRAPH CHANGES OVER TIME
PLANTS or areas of plants
SIGNS OF LIFE: leaf being consumed, animals prints,
decaying log, leaf litter, emerging buds, etc.
EROSION
TRACES of water flow
PATTERNS left by mud
SKY
MATERIALS left out for animals (bird food, fruit, etc)
A PUDDLE
SIGNS of human movement in and out of an area
SNOW melting
DATA - INQUIRY DRIVEN
Shadows - Plant growth - Leaf drop Color changes – Bird nest materials –
Bird feeder experiments – Trash –
Spider webs – Plant damage – MeltingVisual changes with temperature or light
Photo scavenger huntIdentifying plants & ” bugs” –
Camouflage challenges – Story
or poetry starters – ‘favorites’Kid-generated Games/Activities