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Direct linkGillan, Amy Larrison; Hebert, Terri – Science and Children, 2014
The People Learning Urban Science (PLUS) program creates partnerships and coordinates efforts involving a local zoo, university, and school district, seeking to instill within students a sense of the natural environment. Even though the majority of students live among concrete and metal structures, their eyes and ears can be trained to make…
Descriptors: Partnerships in Education, Zoology, College School Cooperation, Outdoor Education
Peer reviewedCampbell, Lloyd P. – Social Science Record, 1976
To encourage secondary social studies teachers to utilize community resources, the author describes three successful programs involving school community involvement. He also discusses the basic teaching method of field trips, interviews, and guest speakers, used in many school community programs. (Author/RM)
Descriptors: Educational Innovation, Field Trips, Interviews, Program Descriptions
Rich, Leslie – American Education, 1978
Old Sturbridge in central Massachusetts, a recreated New England Village of the period 1790-1840, is a museum of the past which includes a learning center with reproductions of artifacts used in the period, with demonstration areas, and a teacher center where resource materials for class use are available. (MF)
Descriptors: Community Characteristics, Experiential Learning, Field Trips, History Instruction
Neill, Shirley Boes – American Education, 1978
Describes a San Francisco, California, science museum whose design is based on the exploration of perception. The museum is arranged in sections on patterns, light color, eye logic, third dimension, sound, hearing, electricity, and the tactile gallery. Programs include teacher training, student learning experience, field trips and study projects,…
Descriptors: Experiential Learning, Field Trips, Inservice Teacher Education, Museums
Nicol, Marjorie; Jordan, Gail – 1977
This paper discusses an English as a second language (ESL) program for elementary school children in a city school in British Columbia. The main emphasis of this program is on community life outside the classroom. The students are taken on field trips to a wide variety of places, such as an aquarium, grocery stores, parks, skating rinks, swimming…
Descriptors: Community Involvement, Elementary Education, English (Second Language), Experiential Learning
PDF pending restorationIndiana State Dept. of Public Instruction, Indianapolis. – 1976
The handbook provides information, ideas, and strategies for developing and utilizing community resources in elementary and secondary school programs. The first section of the document describes six school-community programs in Indiana. Innovations developed in the programs which motivate students to learn about the real world include parental…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Community Cooperation, Community Involvement, Community Resources
Wisconsin State Dept. of Public Instruction, Madison. – 1978
Based on the practical training experience of sixteen school districts and two universities which comprise the Wisconsin Career Education Consortium, this report presents training strategies for a variety of community-school collaboration efforts. Eleven training strategies are presented: (1) providing an in-school visitation day for business…
Descriptors: Activities, Audiovisual Instruction, Career Education, Check Lists
