Project Based Learning Electives provided by the Berrien Springs Virtual Academy
Habitats and Wildlife Fall 2019
Teacher: Zoe Elrick 269-612-8172
galienvalley@gmail.com
www.z-hub.org/galienvalleyncp.html
8 weeks, 2-hour class periods
Ages 6-9 (Parent attendance required), older students are welcome
***Please email instructor that you signed up for this class.***
Fernwood Botanical Garden, Niles, MI
Thursdays, 10 AM- noon
Sept 19, Sept 26 Oct 3, Oct 10, Oct 17, Oct 24. Oct 31, Nov 7 (Oct 3, 10 will be at Warren Dunes and run from 9:30-11:30 AM)
Description: This class is both informative and fun! Come enjoy Fernwood, explore its natural habitats - it’s prairies, woodlands, and wetlands. Plus, visit Warren Dunes and its lake and dunes, for 2 days of class. Learn about nature through a variety of hands-on nature-exploration skills, weekly lesson topics, and biweekly units. Syllabus
Required Supplies:
- Teacher provides weekly paper info-sheets, nature books, outdoor nature, land, leaves, flowers, sticks, and more.
• 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