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Teaching Environmental/Stem College Access Curriculum In Two Western Washington Title I Elementary Schools, Wendelin Dunlap

WWU Graduate School Collection

This study attempts to answer the question: What are the best methods for designing Environmental/STEM College Access Curriculum for Title I Classrooms? Participants were 98 5^th-grade classes at two Title I schools. The treatment was 15 hours of College Access Curriculum: 7 hours occurred at the North Cascades Institute’s Mountain School, eight hours in the students’ regular classrooms. The curriculum was taught by Western Washington University students trained as coaches. Data were gathered from elementary students (pre- and post-program surveys, retrospective questionnaire and open-ended question), coaches (essays and teacher evaluations) and teachers (feedback form).

Data gathered from elementary …

Wisdom Of The Ancient Forests: Stories In The Living Thread, Nick Sky

WWU Graduate School Collection

In this project I am using my life experiences as an evolving environmental educator to create a theoretical and content base for an educational approach that combines holistic natural history education and complexity education. This approach is necessarily transdisciplinary. This educational approach is designed to be implemented using methods that are field based, inquiry based, narrative based, and learning communities based. The implementation of this educational approach is designed to take place in the ancient forests of the Cascadia/PNW region of North America.

Key Words: Complexity, Experiential education, Ancient forest, Resilience, Holistic, Emotion, Natural history, Perception, Time, Values

Creating A Community Hub For Natural History Education In The Methow Valley And Beyond, Mary Kiesau

WWU Graduate School Collection

I created and integrated three different methods of natural history education for my final project of my Masters of Education in Environmental Education in order to further establish myself as a professional educator, communicator and naturalist, and to create ways for people who live in or have an affinity for the Methow Valley to be more observant, informed and connected with the natural world. Building on previous graduate coursework as well as professional work as an environmental educator and photographer, I created a new natural history education website and Facebook page with a wide variety of online resources, while also …