Geography Teaching Resources To Get You Inspired

It was a geography teacher who changed my life and first got me thinking about the environment.

I was reminded of this when I came across a great resource for geography teachers this week at The Centre for Ecoliteracy website.

It has a really interesting collection of offerings for teachers like you who want to get out there and make a difference.

You can subscribe to a free Newletter for teachers who want to get their schools more active in sustainability education.

You will also find the site has an impressive set of inspirational Articles available for download in PDF format.

These articles include such gems as Findings from the Evaluation Study of The Edible Schoolyard. Here’s a quote from that study:

In describing The Edible Schoolyard program, chef and restaurateur Alice Waters says

“Our program places food at the centre and has students helping to feed each other.  These children learn mutual respect from sharing meals, they learn self-respect from learning how to prepare meals and they learn respect for the planet from learning how to grow food in an ecologically sound way.”

A Guide for Creating School Gardens as Outdoor Classrooms called Getting Started is also available free for teachers for teachers inside the U.S. (You might want to email them directly for postage information outside the U.S.)

For those of you more interested in the big picture you might want to check out Big Ideas: Linking Food, Health, and the Environment, which is available for $16.95(US) through Acorn Naturalists.

I hope you find this website as inspiring as I did. Please remember you can have a lasting impact on the way people think about environment - just the way my geography teacher influenced me.

Posted in Environment, Schools. Permalink for this post: permalink. If you are a Digg user, please  Digg this post. |  Stumble It If you use use Del.icio.us, then add us in:  Del.icio.us

What do you think?

Leave a comment! Or send a trackback from your own blog.

RSS