Place-Based Science Teaching (eBook)

Connecting Students to Curriculum, Community, and Caring for Our Planet

Whitney Aragaki, Kirstin Milks (Autoren)

eBook Download: PDF

2025
273 Seiten
Corwin (Verlag)
979-8-3488-0884-6 (ISBN)

Inhalt

Contributors
Preface
Why Place-Based Teaching?
Our Goals for This Book
How to Use This Book
Features of the Book
Self-Awareness, Personally and Professionally
Author Positionality
Uncovering Your Positionality
A Few Notes on Language
Land Acknowledgment
Acknowledgments
About the Authors
Chapter 1: A First Look at Place-Based Teaching Practices
Introduction to the Work
What Is Place-Based Teaching?
Why Is Place-Based Science Teaching Effective and Important?
Four Questions of Place-Based Science Teaching
What Inspired the Place-Based Science Teaching Framework?
Wait, Is Place-Based Learning Another Way to Say Project-Based Learning?
(K)new Invitations
Knowledge
Innovation
Belonging for Students
Learning and Community for All
Building Belonging in Science Class
Acknowledging Land
How Are Land Acknowledgments a Good Opportunity for Exercising Place-Based Science Concepts and Learning?
Sociocultural Features of Helpful Land Acknowledgments
Land Acknowledgments Are Best as a Process of Learning
E lu‘u hou i ka wai
Reflection Questions
Chapter 2: Where Are You?
Noticing Place, Wherever You Are
Getting Started: Uncovering Specifics of Place
BioBlitzes and Square of Life: Documenting Place in Class
More Examples of Where in Place
Sit Spots: Individualized Invitations to Place
Field Experiences in Kirstin’s Small Midwestern City
Kilo
Exploring Connection to Place
Stories Across Our Places: How Teachers and Students Ask, “Where Are We?”
Reflection Questions
Chapter 3: When Are You?
Crosscutting Concepts: Investigating “When Through Authentic Features of Science and Engineering”
Exploring Scales of Time
Intertwined Histories, Intertwined Science
What’s “The Trouble With Wilderness?”
Exploring Ecosystem Services
Caretakers of Our Land, Past and Future
Stories Across Our Places: How Teachers and Students Ask, “When Are We?
Reflection Questions
Chapter 4: Who Are You?
How Are Place and Identity Linked? Strengthening Self-Awareness
Strategies for Supporting Student Identity Exploration Through Place
Leveraging Informal Conversations With Students
Connecting With Family as a Means of Connecting With Self and Place
Learning From Elders About Their Experiences of Place
Celebrating Local Diversity of Place and of People
Stories Across Our Places: How Teachers and Students Ask, “Who Am I?”
Reflection Questions
Chapter 5: Who Are We Together?
Developing Science Curriculum to Reflect Student Experiences and Relationships
Combating Place-Based Injustice With Action
Growing Justice Education: Starting With the Teacher
Belonging as Action
Classroom as Place
Student and Family Relationships
Student and Place Relationships: Safe, Brave, and Accountable Spaces
Teaching Beyond the Classroom
Participatory Science
Place- and Project-Based Learning: Connecting Global Challenges to Local Action
Connecting Big Problems to Local Solutions
It’s OK to Start Small
Stories Across Our Places: How Teachers and Students Ask, “Who Are We Together?”
Reflection Questions
Chapter 6: Virtual Spaces and Our Places
(Re)defining Place
Place in Virtual Space
Science in Virtual Terms
Science in Virtual Place
Access and Equity in Virtual Places
Inquiry and Privilege
Artifacts and Access
Identity, Safety, and Belonging
Framing a Digital Environment With Four Questions
Where Are You in the Digital Environment?
When Are You in the Digital Environment?
Who Are You in the Digital Environment?
Who Are We Together in the Digital Environment?
Digital Equity and Belonging
Reflection Questions
Chapter 7: Place-Based Teaching for Sustainable Futures
Justice-Ready Futures
A VUCA Forecast
Joy and Justice
AI-Ready Futures
What Does AI Say About This?
Where Does AI Fall Short?
Refuge-Ready Futures
Teaching Place Away From Home
(K)new Beginnings
Climate-Ready Futures
The Climate Gap
Place-Based and Future-Forward
(Be)coming Home
Final Words From Whitney
References
Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 30.9.2025
• Verlagsort: Thousand Oaks
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Schulbuch / Allgemeinbildende Schulen
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Schulpädagogik / Grundschule
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Schulpädagogik / Sekundarstufe I+II
• Schlagworte: Authentic Science Problem Solving • Community Engagement in Science • Connecting Students to Science through Community Engagement • Critical thinking in science • Environmental education • How to Integrate Local Contexts into Science Curriculum • Localized Science Teaching • NGSS Place-Based Lessons for Science Teachers • NGSS Science Curriculum • Place-based Learning • Place-Based STEM Education for K-12 Students • Science Education for K-12 • STEM curriculum development • Teaching Science through Community
• ISBN-13: 979-8-3488-0884-6 / 9798348808846