Place-based Learning

Promise of Place website -- one stop shopping for Place-based Learning

Place-based (Local) Resources

Shelburne Farms

Four Winds Nature Institute

Jenepher Lingelbach, Hands on Nature: Information and Activities for Exploring the Environment with Children, Vermont Institute of Natural Science, 2000.

Place-based Learning Podcasts

• Robin Wall Kimmerer-The Intelligence in all Kinds of Life On Being Interview

Blogs

Innovative Education in Vermont: A blog exploring student-centered, tech-rich innovative school change by the Tarrant Institute

Place-based Learning Readings

• The Past, Present and Future of PBL
• Foundations of Place-based Service-Learning
• Robin Wall Kimmerer-The Intelligence in all Kinds of Life On Being Interview
• Land as Relationship
• Reading the Forested Landscape by Tom Wessels
• Revitalizing Natural History Education by Design by Kolan and Poleman
• Placed-based readings from Healthy Neighborhoods, Healthy Kids - shows scaffolding and concentric circles of key concepts