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Author
Publisher
Green Mountain College
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
The lack of access to environmental education and experiences for children today is a serious concern. The purpose of the capstone project was to produce instructional materials to support the environmental educational programs provided by the Dyken Pond Environmental Education Center. I used my experience from volunteering and working at the DPEEC for a year to develop a species guide of local mammals to go along with a lesson plan focusing on the...
Author
Publisher
Green Mountain College
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Becoming food literate and feeling comfortable with eating healthy foods are big steps toward reaching the goal of food security. A school farm program at Faith Baptist Christian Academy (FBCA) is the first step in connecting students with food and to support education in health, nutrition, agriculture, and local economy. Use of traditional, pallet and Hugelkulture raised beds, and ground rows and plots have created an outdoor education center that...
Author
Publisher
Green Mountain College
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
The following document outlines the steps needed to build and develop a sustainable strategy for Chef Camp. This was accomplished by analyzing Chef Camp from its inception through a SWOT analysis, completing a competitive review of organizations, and utilizing Adam Werbach's three tools in creating a sustainable strategy: STaR Mapping, North Star goal, and the TEN Cycle. Identifying the North Star goal: creatively strategize for the development of...
Author
Publisher
Green Mountain College
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
A Sustainable Mind was born out of a desire to strengthen communication within the environmental movement. The project seeks to forge stronger relationships between experts -- highly skilled and dedicated individuals within the area of environmental sustainability -- and the podcast's target audience -- everyday people who desire positive environmental change but lack the resources to accomplish it. The goal is to increase support and spread awareness...
Author
Publisher
ProQuest LLC
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"American colonization of the Hawaiian Islands has brought about generations of Native Hawaiian learners being subjected to educational practices that are incompatible with core Indigenous beliefs. Consequently, Native Hawaiian learners have lower academic achievement than other ethnic groups in the islands. The lack of success is not confined to academics since Native Hawaiians are also underrepresented in material-economic, social-emotional, and...
Author
Publisher
Heinemann
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
In 22 essays, Don Graves shows how testing encroaches on teacher freedom; considers how narrow standards can actually reduce student achievement; asks questions that can help teachers to cope with these new restrictions; and discusses practices that support humane teaching in a testing environment.
Author
Publisher
Green Mountain College
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
To engage more women in primary farm ownership, a multilayered outreach approach for girls and young women must be created. This approach must reach girls in agricultural programs like 4H, middle and high school girls in the form of camps and classes, and young women in agricultural programs in college. Girls have strong rates of participation in early development activities, but only constitute 17% of primary Virginia farm owners Meta analysis showed...
Author
Series
S. hrg volume 117-557
Publisher
U.S. Government Publishing Office
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Green Mountain College
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
How's it Growing was born in early 2013 in collaboration with Children's Country Day School, a Twin Cities (MN) nature-based school for preschool-aged children. The project's goals aimed to establish a farm to preschool pilot program at the school and to integrate a sustainable agriculture curriculum and other food-related experiences into the culture of the school. The main focus of the project revolved around the development of a preschool-aged...
Author
Publisher
Green Mountain College
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
As the culmination of my graduate experience at Green Mountain College, I present to you, readers, my MSES graduate thesis and applied professional project, Growing Oshkosh, Inc, including the conceptualization, creation, incorporation and case for support for Growing Oshkosh, Inca local community food project and non-profit urban farm in Oshkosh, Wisconsin dedicated to sowing and growing a healthier, more vibrant and more hopeful community. Growing...
Author
Publisher
ProQuest LLC
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"This doctoral research is an ethnographic study that describes the lived culture of Alice Lloyd College, a work college located in the Appalachian Mountains of Kentucky, and its efficacy in engaging Appalachian students in sustainability education in a college setting. Campus culture was found to be consistent with that of the broader Appalachian region, with three blue collar values emerging as core cultural indicators within the campus community....
Author
Publisher
Green Mountain College
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
The Northern Bobwhite quail is a bird native to Long Island, NY, which is rapidly becoming extirpated. The purpose of this curriculum unit is to educate future generations on what is going on around us and more specifically to the quail. This unit is designed to bring awareness to the issues causing the extirpation of Bobwhite quail populations on Long Island and how we can be better stewards of the land. To better provide the students with a well-rounded...
Author
Publisher
Green Mountain College
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
This applied project created an upper-level (11th and 12th grade) environmental science curriculum specific to Marist School students. The course is designed to aide them in becoming effective citizens in the world community who can contribute to solutions of environmental issues (Hungerford, Volk, & Ramsey, 1994). Through research and evaluation, I have created a bioregional environmental education curriculum that will enable students to effect positive...
Author
Publisher
Green Mountain College
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
In your hands you hold a unique tool for teachers; a series of place based projects designed from conception to classroom testing to take advantage of the best available research on how people learn. All of the suggested instructional strategies have been classroom tested and proven to support students as they move from environmental ideals to environmental action. The science and policy projects in the California Coastal Voices (CCV) guide are ambitions,...
