Time: 9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. PT

Format and Length: In person, 7 hours 

Audience: K-12th grade educators, formal & nonformal

Materials provided: Project Learning Tree Explore Your Environment: K-8 Activity Guide 

Considerations:. We will be spending time outdoors in the winter weather,  walking short distances around the lodge on uneven possibly snow covered and forested areas. 

Description:

Join us for a day of outdoor learning in the winter forest at the historic Skyliner Lodge. We will explore nature journaling; a flexible, engaging, and adaptable teaching tool that helps students develop scientific, contextual literacy, and social-emotional competencies. We will practice  close observation, inquiry, and connection-building through nature journaling prompts, collaborate on using journals to foster a growth mindset, model outdoor facilitation strategies, and explore ways to integrate nature journaling into any learning context. Additionally, we will incorporate activities from Project Learning Tree to enrich our experience.

Nature Journaling connects to  scientific competencies that  follow the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) and the social-emotional competencies that follow the new Oregon Transformative Social and Emotional Learning (TSEL) framework.

Participants will need winter footwear (warm and waterproof) and winter outerwear. Snowshoes provided if needed. 

Brought to you by: Oregon Natural Resources Education Program (ONREP) and NatureConnect of Central Oregon

Registration required. Offered at no cost to Oregon educators. PDUs available. Substitute reimbursement available on teacher work days.