Program

Information for Participants

Travel to TSU Farms:

When you Arrive

Field Preparation

  • Wear comfortable field clothes
  • Shoes appropriate for sampling in a marsh environment
  • Bring a notebook
  • Recommended items: hat, sunscreen, and water.

Workshop leaders will provide any other gear, if needed.


Participant Workspace »

Monday

Day 1 Notes (Participant Access Only)

8:30 Introductions, Goals, Icebreakers

  • Importance of integrative teaching
  • Concepts for integrative teaching

9:00 Group Discussion

  • What integrative teaching do you already do?
  • What integrative teaching would you like to do?

9:30 Break

9:45 Visit to TSU farm - walking field trip to (a) wetlands or (b) floodplain

  • Goal – hands-on demonstrations and stimulation of ideas

10:45 Recap with groups - begin plan for own integrative lesson or project

  • Organize into working groups based on goals and interests

11:20 Road Check Monday

11:30 Adjourn for the day


Tuesday

Day 2 Notes (participant access only)

8:30 Getting started - questions from previous day and looking ahead

8:45 Approaches for integrative teaching

  • S2S, FEW, temporal, social, ecological

9:30 Break

9:45 Tools for integrative learning

  • GeoMapApp; Google Earth; EarthPoint; Rockd; BYOT

10:30 Visit to TSU farm - walking field trip to (a) wetlands or (b) floodplain

  • Goal – hands-on demonstrations and stimulation of ideas

11:20 Road Check Tuesday

11:30 Adjourn for the day



Wednesday

Day 3 Notes (participant access only)

8:30 Getting started - questions from previous day and looking ahead

8:45 Challenges to integrative teaching

9:30 Work individually/groups to develop an integrative lesson or project

10:15 Break

10:30 Discussion on progress

10:45 Work individually/groups to develop an integrative lesson or project

11:15 Workshop evaluation

11:30 Adjourn for the day