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"Close your textbook! Go outside! ’Place-based learning’ connects lessons to real life."
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OPB (Oregon Public Broadcasting)Media URL:
https://www.opb.org/article/2024/04/08/place-based-learning-connects-lessons-to-real-life-portland-oregon/Date:
2024/04/08Summary:
What’s the best way to learn – and teach – about science, history, social studies, and racial justice? In places that elucidate how those things connect. This story offered NPR listeners a chance to join Lewis & Clark Professors Liza Finkel and Cari Zall and their graduate students for an exploration of the natural and human environments in one Portland neighborhood shaped by years of environmental racism. The L&C students, who will teach science and social studies in schools throughout the region, were deepening their skills for designing place-based learning, for collaborating across the curriculum, and for bringing a social justice lens to every lesson. “When you have local, real examples of how these different things interplay and affect people’s lives, I think that’s really powerful,” Jordan Stokes, one of the L&C graduate students, said. “I think that connects and makes [our students] want to learn more.”
