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Sparking curiosity, nurturing inquiry, honing critical thinking skills. As
a teacher, you know the power that “firsthand learning” has to
inspire and educate. Whether you are a keen novice or a seasoned practitioner,
FHL offers strategies, materials, and support to engage your students in science
and literacy through hands-on investigations, outdoor explorations, journal-keeping,
and more. Choose from our programs and resources:
* Object Lessons.
This NSF-funded curriculum series designed for the middle grades provides
you with exciting kit materials, student journals, and comprehensive teacher’s
guides to engage students in authentic inquiry in the classroom.
Download several Object
Lessons™ lesson plans for FREE!
* The Young
Observer’s Notebook (preK-3) and Firsthand Learning’s
Field Journal
(grades 3 – 8). To support your students’ investigations,
these blank science notebooks offer lined spaces for writing descriptions,
measurements, and questions, as well as blank spaces for drawing.
* Download Mini-Journals
for FREE and access great ideas for exploring the natural world today.
Check out all FHL’s teaching materials in the FHL
Catalog.
* Outdoor Inquiries.
Learn how to use the outdoors effectively to support student inquiry and meet
your cross-curricular goals with FHL’s toolkit and resource guide.
“Outdoor Inquiries: Taking Science Investigations Outside the
Classroom”, published by Heinemann, provides detailed information
on focusing outdoor explorations around strategies that allow students to
collect and analyzing their own data.
* Professional Development Opportunities.
Do you want to engage young people in investigation of their local environment,
but are not sure how to structure the experience so that it meets your educational
goals? Are you looking for practical tools and techniques to enhance inquiry
teaching in your classroom? FHL offers a variety of workshops designed to
support and extend your teaching practice.
* Share your ideas with other teachers. Contact FHL at inquiries@firsthandlearning.org
to offer feedback, questions, ideas for mini-journal activities, as well as
examples of your projects and student work that might be highlighted in a
future e-newsletter.
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