Place-based Education. Student Place-based. Community Stewardship. Efforts at the Detroit Institute of Technology. DV 20
greatlakes place-based education conference 2014
10–10:45
am
AGENDA
Friday, November 7
KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Keynote Address: Getting Your Feet Wet and Allowing Water to Flood Your Boots
Kim Rowland, Dean of Discipleship, All Saints Academy Eberhard Center, Room 200
11
am–12 pm
CONFERENCE SESSION #1 DV 109D
DV 111D
Ignite! Mining the Controversy
Reading Gains in School-based Reading Clinics
Pipes and Precipitation: A Collaborative Stormwater Project
Soaring with CGLL (Center for Great Lakes Literacy)
Green Film Series
OSU Stone Laboratory: A Life Preserver for Lake Erie
Implementing a BioBlitz with a Junior-Senior High School
DV 117E
DV 119E
Going Batty: A Look at the Engaging Students in Impact of Bats on an Ecosystem Productive Science Discussions
DV 203D
DV 209 E
Biological Regionalism: Reconnecting through Art and Science
12–1
pm
Beyond Multiple Choice: Other Options for Evaluating Student Learning from Placebased Education
From Conception to Implementation: A Community Partner’s Perspective
DV 121E
Practicing Democracy in Place-based Education
DV 302E
Environment Education in Early Childhood: Meaningful Learning Made Easy
DV 138E
Student Place-based Community Stewardship Efforts at the Detroit Institute of Technology
DV 127A
PBS Learning Media— Inspiration You Can Use Now
LUNCH & NETWORKING
Eberhard Center, Second Floor
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This year’s conference is co-hosted by the Great Lakes Stewardship Initiative and Groundswell, a regional GLSI hub at Grand Valley State University in Grand Rapids.
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 7 (cont.) 1:15–2:15
pm
CONFERENCE SESSION #2
DV 107D
DV 109D
Shipboard Science Workshop: A Model for Integrating Inquiry into Professional Development
Advancing Place-based Education: Utilizing Service Learning and NOAA Assets
DV 119E
DV 121E
Interpretation Is for the Birds—and the Flowers and the Trees!
Losing Control Because Students Take Over!
DV 203D
DV 111D
Extend Learning beyond the Classroom and into the Community: Empowering Students as Stewards of Their Environment DV 136E
Indigenizing Public School Curriculum: A Land-based Approach
DV 117E
Population Connection: Hands-on Activities for People and the Planet
DV 138E
Students Making Change in the City: Detroit Youth Energy Squad
DV 209E
Leaflit.org
“I Would Just Cut the Grass:” Teenage Reflections on Improving Local Landscapes
2:30–3:30
pm
CONFERENCE SESSION #3
DV 107D
DV 109D
Au Gres-Sims Elementary Water Quality Investigation
The Future is Now: Students Use of Underwater Robotics to Explore and Conduct Research
DV 119E
DV 121E
RAIL Project
Where Stewardship and Civics Meet: Exploring Students’ Civic Learning in Place-based Stewardship Efforts DV 136E
Laying the Foundation: Learn Local: Engaging Preparing Educators and Students through Sticky Community Members to Engage Learning in Place-based Education
DV 203D
DV 209E
The Climate Walk: A Journey Using Nearpod
3:45–4:45
DV 111D
pm
Engaging Students through Global Issues
DV 117E
Academic Growth in Demographic Decline: Crawford AuSable Schools
DV 138E
Building Local Capacity to Protect and Restore Hine’s Emerald Dragonfly Habitat in Northeast Michigan
UNIVERSITY CLUB
Teaching Students to Ask Their Own Questions
KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Keynote Address: Cool New Developments in Place-based Education
David Sobel, Director, Center for Place-based Education, Antioch New England Institute Eberhard Center, Room 200
4:45–5 5
pm
DRAGONFLY AWARD FOR ACHIEVEMENT IN PLACE-BASED EDUCATION
pm ADJOURN
greatlakes place-based education conference 2014 9–9:30
am
AGENDA
Saturday, November 9
KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Keynote Address: The Role of Place-based Education in the Grand Rapids Public Schools Transformation Plan
Teresa Weatherall Neal, Superintendent, Grand Rapids Public Schools Eberhard Center, Room 200
9:45–10:45
am
CONFERENCE SESSION #4
DV 107D
DV 117E
Local is the New Global Using Place-based Education to Explore the Great Lakes in an ELA Classroom DV 203D
DV 205D
DV 121E
Who’s Coming to Dinner? Engaging Youth Voice at the Table DV 205E
Creating Place-based Teacher Education Programs
Embracing Technology: Citizen Science Apps for Outdoor Education
11
CONFERENCE SESSION #5
am–12 pm
DV 107D
Michigan’s Environmental Literacy Plan: Where Do You Fit In?
DV 117E
Connecting History, Placebased Education, and Environmental Stewardship
DV 203D
DV 205D
Oh, the Places You’ll Go: Great Lakes FieldScope and Placebased Education in Practice
DV 121E
Set Sail with GLEAMS!
DV 205E
Place-based Education and Social Studies: What Does it Mean to Learn to Be a Citizen of the 21st Century?
The Laboratory is a Watershed: Biology 250 (Research Method) Focuses on Plaster Creek
12–1
LUNCH & NETWORKING
pm
Building a Conservation Community through Volunteerism
DV 136E
DV 138E
Using Place-based Going Outdoors with Expeditionary Learning GLOBE Schoolwide
DV 209E
DV 213E
Partnerships for Watershed Education: Great Lakes Water Festivals
DV 136E
Making a Difference, One Class at a Time
DV 209E
Microplastics in the Great Lakes: An Issue Primer
What Place-based Education Looks Like in a Traditional Public Elementary
DV 138E
The King Learning Garden: Fostering EcoJustice Education and Place-based Education within the Public School Culture and Curriculum DV 213E
Place-based Efforts in Higher Education: Preparing Grand Valley State University Students to Confront Local Wicked Problems
Eberhard Center, Second Floor
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This year’s conference is co-hosted by the Great Lakes Stewardship Initiative and Groundswell, a regional GLSI hub at Grand Valley State University in Grand Rapids.
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 8 (cont.) 1–2:15
pm
DV 107D
Using Earth Force Curriculum to Enhance Place-based Education Experiences: Trust the Process! DV 203D
CONFERENCE SESSION #6 DV 117E
Ripple effect: Placebased Education is Making Waves in Erie County
DV 205D
DV 121E
DV 136E
Karma Garden: Teaching Incarcerated Youth Environmentalism
“Look, Don’t Touch:” The Problem with Environmental Education
DV 205E
DV 209E
Are We There Yet? One District’s Journey Incorporating Placebased Education
Looking at the Past... Gazing into the Future: A Journey Toward Stewardship
2:30–3:30
CONFERENCE SESSION #7
pm
DV 107D
DV 117E
Integrating Placebased Education and Service Learning at the Elementary Level
Relationships Are How We Get Things Done: Teacher Mentoring in the Lake Superior Watershed
DV 203D
DV 205D
Hydroponic Urban Farming
ConnectEd: ArcGIS Online for Organizations
4:00
ADJOURN
pm
Picking Up Rocks and Playing With Worms: Working With What You Have to Inspire Placebased Learning
DV 121E
Engaging the Urban Community in Environmentalism
DV 205E
Connecting Students to Science Through River of Words
STEEAMED: Using Climate Change as the Ultimate Place-based Curriculum
DV 136E
DV 138E
Geoheritage and Commmunity Engagement
DV 213E
Stormwater Savvy
DV 138E
Bringing Science Alive: Place-based Education USFWS Brings Placefor All: Creating an based Science Lessons Accessible Garden to Local Schools
209E
Working Collaboratively to Create CrossCurricular Place-based Education Materials
greatlakes place-based education conference 2014 NOTES / SCHEDULE
This year’s conference is co-hosted by the Great Lakes Stewardship Initiative and Groundswell, a regional GLSI hub at Grand Valley State University in Grand Rapids.
