Happy Spring, Farm-Based Educators:
Our resource review committee members put together a couple spring-y resources for you. Did you know you can submit resources, too? Tell us what your favorite resource is right now, and we'll share it with the Network in next month's bulletin!
Thanks for reading,
Vera, FBEN Coordinator
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For the theme of growth, I’d like to share this resource entitled “How to Teach Nature Journaling” by John Muir Laws (Naturalist, educator, and artist) and Emilie Lygren (science educator, author, poet, and facilitator and collaborator with the Beetles Project.
Available to download for free, this resource is a tool for educators or mentors to teach the skills of journaling and observation to others. When couped up in our homes and neighborhoods, during the pandemic and beyond, journaling is a practice that leads to growth in forming some of the most fundamental skills of science, observation and documentation.
Nature journaling is an extremely effective and engaging way to teach observation, curiosity, and creative thinking. Journals are the ubiquitous tool of scientists, naturalists, thinkers, poets, writers, and engineers.
And, here's a plug for the organizations involved in this resource committee: Oxbow built a whole set of “Earth Month” focused journal prompts and guided videos here. And Cedar Circle started a Nature Journaling Club in 2020 and has this “Nature Journaling Basics” resource. This is a great place to start a journaling practice with kids and people of all ages!
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"All children deserve access to the benefits of nature, regardless of race, income, zip code or physical ability. Unfortunately, not all children have equitable access to parks and green spaces," writes the Children and Nature Network. In their Toolkit for Talking with Kids about Equitable Nature Access, they share resources for talking about racism, climate change, and other difficult subjects, and have excerpts from real conversations with kids that help ground the conversation in reality.
This resource can help us continue to grow as individuals and organizations working at the intersection of nature programming, diversity and equity.
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As the days get warmer and longer, our plants grow toward the light. This time-lapse video shows phototropism in action. The account has a few other timelapse videos showing plant (and bacteria) growth in action!
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Farm Summer Camp Learning Community
March 12 | 11 - 12:30 ET / 8 Pacific
The March 12 call will focus on COVID-safe adaptations of your favorite cooking activities. Shea Scribner of Oxbow Farm and Conservation Center will join to share how they've shifted their practices. Hosted in partnership with Andrew Ziv of Eden Village Camp.
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Make a Felted Flower!
April 9, 2021 | 4 - 5:30 ET/ 1-2:30 Pacific
Join Cat Parrish from Shelburne Farms to learn how to turn fluffy sheep wool into colorful, felted flowers. As part of the process, you will also learn how to create felted balls - think felt ball garlands! Cat will chat about how she creates a 2-hour family program around this activity when Shelburne Farms is offering in-person programming, and participants can share their favorite sheep-to-felt projects, too!
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Worker Justice in the Food System
April 1, 15, 29 | 2-5 pm EST
In this three-part workshop, participants will critically reflect on questions of worker justice in the food system. Collectively, we will examine the true cost of our food and how we, as educators and consumers, can be more effective allies to food workers while engaging with our students in the classroom or on the farm. In workshop one, we will learn more about the histories and the stories of resistance that have been transformational in bringing greater justice to workers in the food system, from farmworkers to restaurant workers. Workshop two will focus more specifically on the use of popular education in several case studies of farmworker led-organizing and provide an overview of different instructional resources that can be used with students. In the final workshop, participants will share and receive feedback from facilitators and peers on a lesson plan they design to teach students about worker justice. This workshop is for farmers, educators, and farm-based educators. Facilitated by Vera L. Chang and Theresa Mares, Ph.D. Photo: Vera L. Chang.
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