With students and educators under shelter-at-home orders, states and districts are faced with difficult decisions about how to support students’ science learning while they are home. Home environments support different aspects of student learning than school-based environments. Designing home-based learning experiences to intentionally take advantage of the unique assets of being at home can be supportive of students’ social, emotional, and mental health; provide a meaningful and complementary science learning experience; and allow students to explore real-world and personally relevant science in ways that are difficult to accomplish in school. Field-based examples of home and neighborhood investigations of ecological systems will be shared.
- Subject:
- Applied Science
- Environmental Science
- Material Type:
- Teaching/Learning Strategy
- Author:
- Carrie Tzou
- Leah Bricker
- Megan Bang
- Philip Bell
- Date Added:
- 04/28/2020