Place-based Learning

Great educators know that learning must be relevant and nothing is more
relevant than collecting real-data and interacting with real-life
environments and local communities. We've done our jobs as educators when
students have the skills, knowledge, understanding and attitudes to act upon
what they've learned and make the world a healthier, safer, more beautiful
place for us all. Check out this KPBS article then go outside!
http://www.pbs.org/teachers/mediainfusion/

We're back

Thanks to a sick day at home, I decided to revive this resource. I want to keep Community Narratives more focused on community and service so I'll post the cool educational links here. Thanks for staying tuned. I'll try to post more often ok. Send me your educational ideas and resources to post. I'll always give you credit if I use it.

Comparing Holocaust to Native American Genocide

Helping students to make connections is so important. As a member of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum's teaching fellows program, Robin Levin is completing a curriculum that draws parallels between the Nazi’s systematic extermination of the Jews during the 1930s and 1940s with the U.S. government’s treatment of Native Americans. Read the article in School Library Journal: