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)
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
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
