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FREE Climate Science PD from TCC: Teaching Outdoors!



Teaching Outside

for K-5 Educators!


The Teaching for the Climate Collaborative (TCC) 's Teaching Outside workshop is designed to provide teachers and other elementary education staff with the basic skills and tools to implement experiential activities on school sites, in local parks, and in urban settings. Teachers will partake in hands-on, experiential, and discussion based learning while practicing assessing and managing risk in an outdoor classroom, participating in outdoor and climate centered NGSS aligned activities, and collaborating on ways to make outdoor lessons effective and engaging for students.*

*Please note, the majority of this workshop will be held outside on school grounds.

TCC are offering two different sessions for you to choose from!

https://www.pdenroller.org/nwesd/catalog/163173
(THU 21 MAR 2024; Skyline Elementary in Ferndale)

 

https://www.pdenroller.org/nwesd/catalog/163390
(THU 18 APR 2024; Irene Reither Elementary in Meridian)

 


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