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An exploration in the Amazon gives teachers deeper global and local connections 
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The four STEM apps get kids moving in different ways, whether by looking up at the sky, analyzing how their own bodies move, discovering unique objects to
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Forget white coats and sterile laboratories, many scientists have a deep, personal relationship with the natural environments that become their subject matter.
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Help throw off the stereotype of scientists and share these great images with your students as alternatives!
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Science: A Work in Progress - shows how science isn’t produced through one linear method, but through an interconnected set of practices, and examines ways t...
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Great resource for getting kids involved in Earth Systems education and field research. Not just for earth science teachers!
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K-5 students can apply systems thinking to environmental education and other subjects, giving them a broader understanding
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Can psychologists chart what happens when nature blows your mind?
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Field Notes from the Future: Tracking the Movement to Connect People and Nature
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Field Notes from the Future: Tracking the Movement to Connect People and Nature
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During the course of my travels, I am always intrigued by end-of-the-road destinations. I'm not talking about the type of dead ends you accidentally come across in a city. I'm talking about the places you actually seek out....
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It’s all fun and games until you get birds and the Cornell Lab of Ornithology involved…then mayhem, hilarity, and learning ensue! Last summer, birding in the Amazon became a full contact sport as U...
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Hot of the press, our latest blog post featuring Cornell Lab of Ornithology's BirdSleuth program and our collaborative teacher training program in the Peruvian Amazon! Join us July 1-11, 2015 for our next Educator Academy in the Amazon.http://www.amazonworkshops.com/educator-academy.html
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Educators! Here's a BIG list of classroom friendly climate change resources from Amazon Rainforest Workshops that you can use to host a Climate Change Summit in YOUR CLASSROOM!
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"When you walk through the gates of a large botanical garden, you might be surprised to learn that, amid the beautiful flowers and glorious trees, there's a thriving hub of scientific activity."
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The environment is a compelling context for teaching STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) as it provides teachers with a diverse range of real-world challenges that engage students in hands-on opportunities to apply and reinforce STEM...
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Blog Entity: Using Sentence Starters to Teach Students to Talk Like Scientists Maria Grant, Professor of Secondary Education at California State University, shares this idea for illustrating for students the difference between...
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As education continues the march toward a student-driven, project-oriented approach that values intelligent solutions to open-ended problems, it won’t be sufficient to focus on the wonderful discoveries and authentic work that result from an inquiry-based system. Instead, a far more difficult issue will come to the fore: How will we know if inquiry-based learning is successful, and what non-standardized measures of achievement, like better attitude, apply?
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Learn about birds and biology. Discover videos, sounds, animations, reference guides and teaching slides on flight, feathers, songs, nests and more.
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Great new resources and a new landing page from our friends at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. Get your birder on!
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Foldscope was tested out by US field biologist Aaron Pomerantz, who spent a month in the Peruvian Amazon rainforest where he used the device to capture these striking images.
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We need to try these out during the 2016 Educator Academy in the Amazon and leave some with our Peruvian partners!
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Mountain Pointe HS students head to the Amazon!
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Another Amazon adventure is set to begin. Students from Arizona arrive in the Amazon tonight Lead by their fearless teacher, Meredith Morrissey. You can followtheir adventure with Meredith's blog
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A heartening testament to the power of undivided intention.
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As someone who used to work in outdoor sports before making a dramatic u-turn into the world of technology and kids, I find it viscerally disturbing to see young kids out in nature with their eyes glued to a screen.
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2015 Student Field Reporter Project: We’ve enlisted the help of several students to share their 2015 Amazon experiences with us. Over the coming months we will regularly feature their posts, photos, and reflections – letting them tell their amazing stories of the Amazon and it’s impact on their lives!
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Field Biologist is the story of 22-year-old Tyler Christensen, a talented but underemployed high school graduate from New Jersey still trying to figure out what to do with his life. Tyler’s great love is being outside, chasing birds and studying wildlife. One day he decides—brushing aside his lack of a college degree or scientific credentials—to drop everything and travel to Costa Rica to start doing his own conservation-oriented research on birds in the tropics.
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Excellent resource for "out of the box / off the beaten path" biology careers!
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American education imparts a very narrow scope of the world; only by seeing it firsthand can students truly begin to learn.
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Amen to this!
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Just in time for Trick or Treat! Another great lesson plan from @rainforestalliance
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