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WK-10:
Teaching and learning ecology in the schoolyards
Sunday,
August 7, 8 AM - 5 PM, Meeting Room 510a, Level 5, Palais
des congrès de Montréal
Fee:
$40 US Dollars per person – includes continental breakfast, sack lunch
(for outdoor work), and afternoon refreshments.
Minimum:
8
Maximum: 12
Organizers:
Andrea Troncoso (antartica76@yahoo.es),
Juan Armesto
Description:
This
workshop will provide strategies for transferring the skills developed in the
Latin American EEPE Network (Enseñanza de la Ecología en el Patio de la
Escuela) (Teaching ecology in the schoolyards) to practicing scientists and
students interested in education. The program is based on teaching the
scientific method to non-scientists in a playful way, through the hands-on
understating of the cycle of ecological inquiry: a question, an action, and a
reflection. The question must have specific characteristics: it must be
comparative, simple, measurable, and ‘sexy’. Practicing this methodology
through hands-on learning and interactive reflection with others, assures an
active, critical, and free way of becoming familiar with ecological processes
that occur in our familiar surroundings. Workshop activities will include a
series of exercises conducted outdoors (i.e., in a park, a garden, a school
backyard, or any public space where you can be in contact with nature).
Participants will take simple measurements, analyze them, and then communicate
them to the rest of group in clear manner using graphics and tables. We can also
provide PDF copies of some texts, in Spanish or English. In
Latin America
exists a vibrant network of EEPE practitioners and participants can be invited
to participate.
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