Thank You
A special thank you to community partners, Susan Jerde of the Madison Meadow Board, and teachers and staff at Adams Elementary. We also could not have done this project without our amazing Project Director, Katie Lynch and our Project Manager, Meredith Jacobson. Thank you for making this such a special and meaningful learning experience for us.
Literature essential to our lessons...
Kuo, et al
Literature by Kuo, et al outlines the importance of outdoor education, and how learning in nature creates long lasting knowledge.
bell hooks
bell hooks enlightened us as educators and expand our awareness on outdated teaching methods in the classroom that are best replaced with her notion of engaged pedagogy.
Coyote's Guide to Connecting with Nature
This book was central to the design and content of our lesson plans, and helped us structure a lesson plan that best fostered our student's intellectual growth and relationship with the outdoors.