The Environmental Education Research Bulletin synthesizes and summarizes recently reported research from journals focused on issues pertaining to environmental educators.
This geology parody of Neil Young's "Rockin' in the Free World" can be used to review the three rock types and how they form. A recording of the parody being sung by an educator and students is available on the Olympic Google Drive.
This reflection activity is well suited for the last day of an environmental science trip. Students will use three stones to represent their plans for positive change in themselves, their home communities, and the environment.
This theme can be used on a group's first day in the valley and help them orient themselves to where they are as well as introduce them to some of Yosemite's famous stewards over the centuries, giving them someone to "Look Up" to.
This theme can be used on a science investigation day. Students learn how to observe their surroundings and make detailed notes about them. Some good activities include:
This is a thirty minute movement-based activity that models the rock cycle. Students move through the rock cycle, learning the various pathways a rock can take to become sedimentary, igneous, or metamorphic.