Our Strategy Share series features innovative ideas, projects, and approaches from inside and outside our community of educators.
Many Strategy Share columns were developed by Grosvenor Teacher Fellows following their field-based experiences on voyages with Lindblad Expeditions.
Students participated in a local air quality study at their school which led to larger ideas about climate science. Continue reading Strategy Share: Turning Small Connections into Large Ideas: Studying School Air Quality and Climate Science
Educator Becky Schnekser employs the Explorer Mindset teaching strategy in her classroom, and shares how she turned her classroom into a spelunking expedition. Continue reading Strategy Share: Creating Experiences Rather Than “Lessons”
In your classroom, you know which students will have an answer immediately and who will need some “think time.” You know which students participate with enthusiasm in group activities and who needs more encouragement. Continue reading Strategy Share: Introverts in the Classroom
I recently found myself face-to-face with a giant tortoise. I was filming his eating behaviors in a field on Santa Cruz Island in the Galápagos Islands. I was there on assignment—not for a nature show, but for a group of 10-year-olds. Continue reading Strategy Share: Exploring the World Through Documentary Filmmaking
“How can my students learn literacy in a science classroom?” As a science teacher, I frequently hear this question from my colleagues. It is easy to confuse literacy for the act of learning to read, when really literacy is the act of reading to learn. This confusion can make non-language arts teachers believe that literacy is not a part of their instruction. Continue reading Strategy Share: Teaching Literacy in the Science Classroom
