Learning in the Landscape by Mary Van Dyke

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Use signs, labels and links outdoors to enhance environmental literacy. Here are top tips for teachers and students using some cheap and easy techniques to make signs and labels outdoors and show "evidence of learning'.

Education

Signs, Labels and Links

Mary Van Dyke

October 2015
Learning in the Landscape

“Good design is good business”
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Making Signs, Labels and Links
Messages include:
•  Instruct
•  Identify
•  Model
•  Evidence of Learning

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Be Positive!
PLEASE
TOUCH!

Please don’t lift me oﬀ the table
THANK YOU
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Cheap & Easy
Techniques
•  You design and get
shop to make

•  DIY
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Printed Corrugated Plastic
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Popsicle Sticks and Sharpies
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Adhesive Plastic ‘Paper’
Corrugated Plastic
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Polyester ‘Paper’
Galvanized Metal Holders
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5 Steps to Make a Sign
1.  8.5 x 11 inch polyester ‘paper’ sheets
2.  Metal Holders are horizontal
- Choices 11 x 7, 7 x 5, or 5 x 4 inch
3.  Set document to ﬁnished sizes of holders
- Powerpoint more sophisticated
-  Google Presentation easier to share
4.  Laser print in color or black + white
5.  Add blob of Goop to secure in holder (adult)

5 Steps to Make a QR Code
1.  Think of content and get the link
2.  Go to a QR generator e.g. QRStuﬀ.com
3.  Enter your link to get QR Code
4.  Use a QR shortener to simplify the QR Code
5.  Download the QR Code and save as jpeg

Sign Design for Our School
•  5E’s Goals
–  Easy to design
–  Easy to produce
–  Engage
–  Educate
–  Evidence of Learning

•  Additional Goals
–  Cheap
–  Durable
for a season or two… The Courtyard
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Scan for
•  Seasonal photos

•  Plant list
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Weeping Cherry Garden
Ms Rowland’s Kindergarten
Scan for
● Seasonal photos
● Plant list
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Four Sisters and Brothers Garden
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Energy Cycles
•  Solar energy
•  Weather station
•  Composting
•  Water
•  Greenhouse
Next Steps

The Environmental Literacy
Challenge
•  Enable teachers to
“improve their ability
to use the environment
as a context for learning
in and out of the classroom”

•  Enhance school-wide
sustainability eﬀorts
within the SOL framework
Governor and Mrs McAuliﬀe at Pocahontas State Park
Planting Garden for Monarch Butterﬂies, April 22 2015

Thank You!
Mary Van Dyke

maryvandyke4@gmail.com

Resources at: https://goo.gl/tf0zH3
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Mary Van Dyke presents on general themes of reading the landscape and environmental literacy, and more specifically on potential for low-cost signage using examples from visits to the National Arboretum. Consider several easy techniques for creating low cost signs and potential opportunities for developing low-cost signs and labels for the Friendship Garden and associated merchandise for the Arbor House Gift Shop.

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