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The Nature Conservancy and PBS LearningMedia Team to Offer This Fun Live Experience for Grades 3 to 8
How would you like your students to experience the wilds of Africa through a live video cast?
This event [2] will be broadcast over YouTube and Google Hangouts, and will introduce students to the continent of Africa and to key conservation concepts. They can discover the importance of Africa’s grasslands and how ecotourism has benefited Kenya’s people and wildlife.
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Field scientist Charles Oluchina will visit Burkina Faso and explain how one African farmer invented an ingenious method to help restore forestlands that had been lost to desertification.
Key Concepts and Terms for Teachers
Here’s a list of terms and topics that are relevant to this experience:
- Working with nature so nature works with us
- People and Conservation
- Desertification
- Smart Development
- Ecotourism
- Habitat
- Grasslands
- Reforestation
- Land preservation
This is the first in a series aimed to build students’ knowledge of and emotional connection to environmental issues that are at the heart of The Nature Conservancy’s mission.
What an awesome use of technology in the service of teaching and learning! I wish more organizations offered opportunities like this.
Click here [2] to register and receive more information about this free live YouTube videocast.
NatureWorksEverywhere is an offering from the The Nature Conservancy and provides classroom resources [4] for science and geography.
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About Kelly Walsh [9]
Kelly Walsh is Chief Information Officer at The College of Westchester, in White Plains, NY, where he also teaches. In 2009, Walsh founded EmergingEdTech.com. As an education and instructional technology advocate, he frequently delivers presentations on a variety of related topics at schools and conferences across the U.S. Walsh is also an author, and online educator, regularly running Flipped Class Workshops [10] online. His eBook, the Flipped Classroom Workshop-in-a-Book is available here [11]. Kelly also writes, records, and performs original music ... stop by kwalshmusic.com [12] and have a listen!
[Disclaimer: The opinions expressed here are my own, or those of other writers, and not those of my employer. - K. Walsh]