Jasper Francis Cropsey, Hackensack Meadows, 1890
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Placed-Based Education
Placed-Based Education
Place-Based Education is a style of teaching that focuses class material on the physical setting students are being raised in. An example of Place-Based education might be learning about your local representatives in a Civics class or identifying local invasive species in a Biology class.
For history, I aim to use a sense of place to dictate much of the material that I present in the classroom. Why did people decide to settle in this location? Why did a settlement succeed and what are the strengths of the local economy? Who used to live here and when? When did they leave, and who replaced them? How have the demographics here shifted over time? These sort of questions give students the background knowledge they need to understand their place in a non-static society. By connecting the individual to their place, it begins to give that place all the more meaning.
It is my hope and goal to make the material in my classroom relevant and practical to my students, to give them a greater insight into why the world is the way that it is. Place-Based Education is a style that falls in line with my goals, and I will do everything in my power to ensure that students leave my classroom with a better sense of their identity in their district, their city, and their planet.
P.B.E. Hometown Video
Check out my Place Based Education video on my hometown, Cuba City, Wisconsin!
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