Beetles: Science and Teaching for Field Instructors

Thoughtful perspectives on pedagogy and climate change in this article on BEETLES partner, Sarah Johnson, of Wild Rose Education. It even features a photo of our Learning Cycle Sticker!
https://topotheworld.org/environmental-educator-sarah-johnson-on-learning-to-be-still-teaching-climate-change-in-2023-and-shifting-from-individualism-to-community-action/?fbclid=IwAR1VS-8hMdYIaIcwkDPpyOGYtM_VJyztGDi2LcnppDf3kMDxnIFaxhkh-1k

Environmental educator Sarah Johnson on learning to be still, teaching climate change in 2023, and shifting from individualism to community action | Top o' the World Sarah Johnson, Carbondale-based environmental educator and owner of Wild Rose Education, discusses climate education and research, local solutions, and adopting new perspectives for a changing world.

Please check out our 3 min Emerging Leaders video and please "like" it. We're in an NSF STEM Diversity & Inclusion Video Exhibition competition. The video that gets the most likes wins prize money and we want to give it to our Emerging Leaders!

Emerging Leaders Cohorts: An Affinity-Based Model for BIPOC in Environmental Education This video was selected as a finalist in the National Science Foundation's (NSF) STEM Diversity and Inclusion Video Exhibition! To address the systemic margi...

Check out this great video from José González

Behind the Scenes With José González Go behind the scenes with educator José González as he shares his mission to nurture a lifelong love of nature in Latino children, their families, and their ...

Presented for folks at California Dept. of Education today. Also got to meet the State Superintendent of Public Instruction, Tom Torlakson. And hang out with cool folks from Ten Strands. But most importantly, I got to look at bugs and plants and stuff on a beautiful Spring day.

Here is the program that much of BEETLES is based on. Kevin Beals and I learned most of what we have spent the rest of our careers exploring in a 10 week field course taught by Ken Norris, Professor of Natural History at UC Santa Cruz. Ken, who became known as the Professor of Wonderment, began each field trip with, "Come on. We're off on the greatest adventure of our lives!"
http://news.ucsc.edu/2014/03/packard-foundation-gift.html

$2-million gift supports natural history fieldwork at UC Santa Cruz A $2-million gift from the David and Lucile Packard Foundation in honor of the late professor Kenneth Norris will help ensure that UC Santa Cruz continues as a leader in natural history and at the forefront of educating students to become environmental leaders.