Description of grant in Saint Michael’s College News
Schedule of Workshops:
Day 1: Introductions, overview of NSF grant and workshops, examing children’s books with a science lens
Day 2: The 7 Crosscutting Concepts
Day 3: Plant Biology primer; Literacy Moves Outdoors
Day 4: Sharing plans for implementation
Video
The Crosscutting Concepts As A Framework for Exploring Science and Children’s LIterature(McCurdy Lecture at NSTA virtual conference, 2020)
Crosscutting Concepts Bookmarks with Quick Start Questions
Review
Podcasts
Heinemann “On the Podcast” interview with Mark and Valerie
Science and Poetry : a conversation with poet, author, and teacher, Amy Ludwig VanDerwater
For Read Aloud Revival: Teach your kids to think like a scientist (with books you already have)
Blogposts
Perusing the Farmers’ Market Like A Scientist
Move Your Library Outdoors! Little Libraries at School
Share how you are moving literacy outdoors!
Podcast about the book; a conversation with Valerie Bang-Jensen & Amy Ludwig VanDerwater
Interview with Victoria Hackett, director of Outdoor Classrooms
Review of Literacy Moves Outdoors
A 12 minute snippet of the audiobook from Heinemann’s “Commuter Series”
Slideshow: Literacy Moves Outdoors, presented by Valerie Bang-Jensen at NCTE 2024
A Play on Words, from Public Gardens
Give Us A Sign! Third Graders Interpret their School Garden, from Legacy
Here’s how one library implemented several approaches to moving literacy outdoors.
Waterbury Library grows a word garden
Representation in the “Great White North”
Develop a Storywalk collection for your school; here’s an example
Videos
A one minute welcome to the Teaching Gardens of Saint Michael’s College
Books in Bloom: growing flowers and plants featured in children’s picture books
A bibliography of flowers and other plants in the Books in Bloom Garden
Student-led Garden Tours: Fertile Ground for Interdisciplinary Collaboration
