Reaching Teachers and Students Using Project
Learning Tree
Brenda Weiser, Ed.DEnvironmental Institute of HoustonUniversity of Houston-Clear Lake
What are we doing with energy education?
• Teacher workshops – preservice and inservice
• Using Project Learning Tree– Pre-K – 8 Activity Guide– Secondary Modules– Energy and Society Kit
What is PLT?
•A Comprehensive Environmental Education Program
•PreK - 12 Curriculum
•Partnerships - state and federal agencies, NGO’s (including API), Universities, others
•Implementation by volunteer network with state coordinators
•International Program
Project Learning Tree Goals
“Teaching students how to think, not what to think.”
Awareness
Knowledge
Challenge
ResponsibleAction
PreK-8 Guide
• Interdisciplinary
• Thematic
• Use of Storylines
• Classroom Friendly
• Aligned to National Standards and TEKS
• PreK-8 Guide Revisions – Reading Connections– Technology Connections– Differentiated Instruction
Project Learning
Tree’s Integrated
Energy Education Program
Funded by: American Petroleum Institute
Energy & Society Kit• Activity Guide• Energy & Me CD• Energy & Me
music and dance video
• Poster set: Where is the energy? and What powers the move?
• Aligned to TEKS
Energy & Me CD
Winner of Children’s Music Web Award and a Parents’ Choice Award
EIH Partners in Energy Education
•Newfield Exploration
•Offshore Energy Center
•Ocean Star
•Cy-Fair ISD
•Clear Creek ISD
•Aldine ISD
What Teachers Are Saying…
• Easily incorporated into existing curriculum
• Cross-curricula• Hands-on, minds-on• Correlated to education
standards• In line with education
reform
Recent Energy & Society Teacher
----Original Message-----From: ChandaSent: Wednesday, October 12, 2005 7:53 PMTo: 'Weiser, Brenda'Subject: RE: Energy & Society Kits
I used the kit on the following Monday after our workshop. My GT and Pre -AP Kids wouldn't let me alone about the music and songs. We did the energy chain. Good stuff. The other kids keep asking to play the songs again because they can't get them out of their heads. (Me,too!) So, thanks again to you for sharing the energy of the project, and of course to the artist, Billy B, who have turned my kids on to a whole new genre of singing and dancing and producing this kind of ENERGY for themselves! We are so kinetic.
Chanda @ Twain
Teachers Teach
Better and
Students Learn.
• Up to 30,000 educators a year
• EIH reaches 700 plus educators a year
• Half of users report using PLT at least once a month
• 60 percent come to workshops because another educator told them about PLT
PLT Works ...
How Can You Get Involved?
• Purchase E&S Kits for schools
• Support energy education
• Be a resource person at a workshop
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