Teaching Place-Based, Decolonized Ecology in the Middle School Classroom
Channel: The Tarrant Institute for Innovative Education
Date: 24/03/2021

In science education, an important goal is to build students’ connection to their environment. Vermont educator Natalie Smith describes a unit she built on ecosystems, that is based on important local issues and tied to historical land use and Native American traditional ecological knowledge in order to increase students’ cognitive engagement in science.

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This presentation was originally part of the 2021 Middle Grades Conference at the University of Vermont. For more information about the Middle Grades Conference, check out middlegradescollaborative.org.