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Sarita Pillai's Blog – December 2010 Archive (1)
Think Globally, Teach Locally
This recently released ASCD publication looks at ways to teach students that environmental
problems affect communities large and small, just like their own. It suggest activities to engage students that focus on local environmental issues and that connect to global issues. Ideas include getting outside the classrom into local communities and analyzing specific community-based issues that students feel they can have an individual, and powerful, impact on.
"Learning locally prepares… Continue
problems affect communities large and small, just like their own. It suggest activities to engage students that focus on local environmental issues and that connect to global issues. Ideas include getting outside the classrom into local communities and analyzing specific community-based issues that students feel they can have an individual, and powerful, impact on.
"Learning locally prepares… Continue
Added by Sarita Pillai on December 8, 2010 at 4:02pm — No Comments
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