Project Based Learning Electives provided by the Berrien Springs Virtual Academy
GVNCP: Community & Landscape Workshop Spring 2020
Teacher: Zoe Elrick 269-612-8172
galienvalley@gmail.com
www.z-hub.org/galienvalleyncp.html
Days: Sundays
4 weeks, 4-hour class periods
Ages 8-18
***Please email instructor that you signed up for this class.***
Fernwood Botanical Garden, Niles, MI
1-5 PM, Sundays, Jan 26, Feb 2, Feb 9, Feb 16
Description: This class is both informative and fun! This class takes place both indoors and outdoors. Come enjoy the outdoors, as well as learn about how to take care of your community, people, and nature. Learn about communities, community landscapes, and nature through a variety of hands-on nature-exploration skills, and class study and discussions about the community. Class discusses main goals, benefits, and actions of taking care of a community and its landscape, and how taking care of communities also helps people’s health, economy, education, and social vitality. Class takes breaks from discussions to do indoor activities and to explore Fernwood nature trails in the winter.
Syllabus
Required Materials:
-Teacher provides nature textbook, outdoor nature, land, leaves, flowers, sticks, and more.
-Required to bring to class (provided by student/family): dress for weather, class is indoors and or outdoors. Outdoor picnic style Workshop: bring a drinking water bottle, 3-ring binder, paper, pencils, clipboard.
-Optional Materials (provided by student/family) Suggested optional stuff to bring: picnic blanket, color pencils, pens, markers, hat, snacks, camera.
Instructor Bio Zoe Elrick has a background in education, culture, science, art, history, as well as landscape architecture and ecology. In 2011, she started the Galien Valley Nature and Culture Program (GV-NCP), in Three Oaks, Michigan. Also, she is a registered landscape architect, in Michigan, and works part time for Pizzo and Associates, an ecological restoration firm of prairies, woodlands, and wetlands. Her landscape architecture degree is from University of Illinois UrbanaChampaign. Plus, she has taken classes from the Tracker School of tracking, awareness, nature, and wilderness survival.
*Please note: it is important to make as informed a decision as possible when choosing your student's Community Resource classes. Most locations will allow a student to drop a class after one meeting, at no charge if it wasn't a good fit for the student, but not all. Some classes plan ahead based on the number that have signed up and have purchased materials, hired teachers, etc. and there might be a fee for class time or materials given to the student if the student drops after one or two meetings. The school cannot pay for classes that students do not complete, so choose wisely; if you do not take the class off of your student's schedule by the deadline, you may be asked to pay for the class time incurred prior to dropping the class.
Teacher of Record: Tom Hurst
Teacher: Zoe Elrick 269-612-8172
galienvalley@gmail.com
www.z-hub.org/galienvalleyncp.html
Days: Sundays
4 weeks, 4-hour class periods
Ages 8-18
***Please email instructor that you signed up for this class.***
Fernwood Botanical Garden, Niles, MI
1-5 PM, Sundays, Jan 26, Feb 2, Feb 9, Feb 16
Description: This class is both informative and fun! This class takes place both indoors and outdoors. Come enjoy the outdoors, as well as learn about how to take care of your community, people, and nature. Learn about communities, community landscapes, and nature through a variety of hands-on nature-exploration skills, and class study and discussions about the community. Class discusses main goals, benefits, and actions of taking care of a community and its landscape, and how taking care of communities also helps people’s health, economy, education, and social vitality. Class takes breaks from discussions to do indoor activities and to explore Fernwood nature trails in the winter.
Syllabus
Required Materials:
-Teacher provides nature textbook, outdoor nature, land, leaves, flowers, sticks, and more.
-Required to bring to class (provided by student/family): dress for weather, class is indoors and or outdoors. Outdoor picnic style Workshop: bring a drinking water bottle, 3-ring binder, paper, pencils, clipboard.
-Optional Materials (provided by student/family) Suggested optional stuff to bring: picnic blanket, color pencils, pens, markers, hat, snacks, camera.
Instructor Bio Zoe Elrick has a background in education, culture, science, art, history, as well as landscape architecture and ecology. In 2011, she started the Galien Valley Nature and Culture Program (GV-NCP), in Three Oaks, Michigan. Also, she is a registered landscape architect, in Michigan, and works part time for Pizzo and Associates, an ecological restoration firm of prairies, woodlands, and wetlands. Her landscape architecture degree is from University of Illinois UrbanaChampaign. Plus, she has taken classes from the Tracker School of tracking, awareness, nature, and wilderness survival.
*Please note: it is important to make as informed a decision as possible when choosing your student's Community Resource classes. Most locations will allow a student to drop a class after one meeting, at no charge if it wasn't a good fit for the student, but not all. Some classes plan ahead based on the number that have signed up and have purchased materials, hired teachers, etc. and there might be a fee for class time or materials given to the student if the student drops after one or two meetings. The school cannot pay for classes that students do not complete, so choose wisely; if you do not take the class off of your student's schedule by the deadline, you may be asked to pay for the class time incurred prior to dropping the class.
Teacher of Record: Tom Hurst
