Global Change Series – Setting Up For Success: Bringing Whole Selves to Global Change Topics
Date: March 29, 2022
Time: 3:30 - 5 p.m., PDT
Format: Online
Audience: Middle school and high school formal and nonformal educators
Description: This is one of a series focusing on how to frame global change topics (such as climate change, extreme weather patterns, natural disasters, etc.) with students in an outdoor education context. This series will provide middle school and high school formal and nonformal educators with an opportunity to explore strategies, tools and tips they can draw on when working with students. Educators can attend as many of the sessions as they would like, and each session will focus on a different topic. Dates and topics for April will be announced soon.
Registration required. Offered at no cost to formal and nonformal Oregon educators. PDUs available. Substitute reimbursement available on teacher workdays. Registration will close approximately one week prior to the workshop.
Teaching the Whole Student with Nature Journaling
Date: March 28, 2022
Time: 9:00 a.m. - 2:30 p.m., PDT
Format: In-person
Location: Rogue River Preserve, Eagle Point, OR
Audience: Third grade and up, formal and nonformal educators
Description: Join us at the Southern Oregon Land Conservancy’s Rogue River Preserve (about 15 miles north of Medford) to experience and explore nature journaling, a flexible, engaging and adaptable teaching tool that helps students develop both scientific and social-emotional competencies. We will practice observation, inquiry and connection-building using a series of nature journaling prompts. We will also practice giving feedback on journal entries to promote a growth mindset, model outdoor facilitation strategies, and discuss how to incorporate nature journaling in any learning context.
Registration required. Offered at no cost to formal and nonformal Oregon educators. PDUs available. Substitute reimbursement available on teacher workdays. Registration will close approximately two weeks prior to the workshop.
Infusing Indigenous Culture into Project Learning Tree Activities
Dates: Wednesday, April 6 and Wednesday, April 20
Times: 4:15 - 6:45 p.m. PDT, both days
Please make every effort to attend both sessions.
Format: Online, five hours, with one hour of self-paced work between sessions
Audience: K-12 educators, formal and nonformal
Curriculum: Project Learning Tree’s (PLT) Explore Your Environment: K-8 Activity Guide
Description: In this interactive workshop, participants will discover how to use the SB13 (Tribal History/Shared History) Critical Orientations framework to infuse Indigenous cultures and perspectives into Project Learning Tree (PLT) activities. Using waste management and sustainability practices as the context, participants will learn how to adapt a PLT lesson to be culturally responsive and relevant. Participants will receive PLT’s Explore Your Environment: K-8 Activity Guide
Registration required. Offered at no cost to formal and nonformal Oregon educators. PDUs available. Substitute reimbursement available on teacher workdays. Registration will close approximately one week prior to the workshop.
Exploring Your Environment with Project Learning Tree and Tribal History/Shared History (SB 13)
Date: April 8, 2022
Time: 9:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m., PDT
Format: In-person
Location: Beazell Memorial Forest Education Center, Philomath, OR
Audience: Third- to sixth-grade educators, formal and nonformal
Curriculum: Project Learning Tree’s (PLT) Explore Your Environment: K-8 Activity Guide
Description: Participants will explore how curriculum based on scientific understanding, such as PLT’s K-8 Explore Your Environment, can be combined with Tribal History/Shared History (SB 13) lessons that were created for educators by the nine federally recognized Tribes in Oregon. All participants will receive a copy of PLT’s Explore Your Environment: K-8 Activity Guide.
Registration required. Offered at no cost to formal and nonformal Oregon educators. PDUs available. Substitute reimbursement available on teacher workdays. Registration will close approximately two weeks prior to the workshop.
Cultivating Student Agency and Resilience in Climate Change Education
Date: April 12, 2022
Time: 3:30 - 5:30 p.m., PDT
Format: Online
Audience: Intended for sixth- to 12th-grade educators, formal and nonformal
Curriculum: Project WILD’s Climate & Wildlife Guide
Description: Want to teach climate change ecology with confidence and compassion? Join us for an interactive workshop that explores the potential of the new “Project Wild: Climate and Wildlife” guide. During the workshop, we’ll explore the social-emotional ramifications of climate change education, and share recommendations to help young people cope with environmental change.
Registration required. Offered at no cost to formal and nonformal Oregon educators. PDUs available. Substitute reimbursement available on teacher workdays. Registration will close approximately two weeks prior to the workshop.
Land of Fire and Ice: The Elements that Shaped the Oregon Cascades
Dates: August 2 - 4, 2022 (overnight workshop)
Format: *In-person, multiple consecutive days
Location: Fish Lake Historic Site, located in the Willamette National Forest
Audience: Middle school sixth- to eighth-grade educators, formal and nonformal
Curriculum: Project Learning Tree’s (PLT) Explore Your Environment: K-8 Activity Guide
Description: Spend a few days this summer with the Oregon Natural Resources Education Program, Willamette National Forest, and Friends of Fish Lake for this first-ever geology, hydrology and history immersion workshop
Cost: $25, to help us offset the cost of this overnight, multi-day workshop. If you need financial assistance to cover this fee, please contact ONREP.
Registration required. PDUs available. Substitute reimbursement available on teacher workdays. Registration will close approximately two weeks prior to the workshop.
