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How to Get Students Outside? Try Backward Planning

“I have always looked for opportunities to get students outside,” Xena Biffert told me. Xena is a district science consultant in Alberta, Canada, where we both live, and previously taught kindergarten and grades three through six. When she started bringing her own classes outdoors, it required her to think differently. “As I began taking students outside more, I really needed to reconsider the way I planned,” she said. “I started to do a lot of backward planning.” Continue reading How to Get Students Outside? Try Backward Planning

Five Reasons to Participate in the Great Backyard Bird Count

The Great Backyard Bird Count (or GBBC) has begun!  The GBBC is an annual four-day event for birders of all ages across North America.  The 2019 GBBC runs from February 15-18. This bird “census” allows scientists to see where birds are located across the continent and helps answer questions: Are birds migrating earlier or later than they did in previous years?  How is winter cold … Continue reading Five Reasons to Participate in the Great Backyard Bird Count