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Welcome
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0-1: Welcome Note from Victoria 30 minLecture1.1
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0-2: Good Things to Know 30 minLecture1.2
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0-3: Why Math Outdoors? 30 minLecture1.3
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0-4: Ideas to Kick Start Your Math Garden 30 minLecture1.4
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0-5: Supply List for Your Mini Math Outdoors Kit 30 minLecture1.5
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Module 1: Math Gardens that Feed
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1-0: Welcome to Gardens that Feed 30 minLecture2.1
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1-1: Time 30 minLecture2.2
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1-2: Patterns, Shapes, & Symmetry 30 minLecture2.3
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1-3: Numbers 30 minLecture2.4
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1-4 : Measurement 30 minLecture2.5
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1-5: Data Collection 30 minLecture2.6
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1-6: A Growing Math Garden that FeedsLecture2.7
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Module 2: Math Gardens as Outdoor Learning Stations
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2-0: Welcome to Gardens as Outdoor Learning Stations 30 minLecture3.1
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2-1: Time: Sun Dial 30 minLecture3.2
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2-2: Patterns, Shapes, & Symmetry: Music Gardens 30 minLecture3.3
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2-3: Numbers: Miniature Gardens 30 minLecture3.4
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2-4: Measurement: Mud Kitchens 30 minLecture3.5
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2-5: Data Collection: Water Wall 30 minLecture3.6
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2-6: A Growing Garden of Outdoor Learning StationsLecture3.7
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LIVE WORKSHOP #1Lecture3.8
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Module 3: Math Gardens that Attract Wildlife
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3:0: Welcome to Gardens that Attract Wildlife 30 minLecture4.1
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3-1: Time and Food for Wildlife 30 minLecture4.2
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3-2: Patterns, Shapes and Symmetry & Cover for Wildlife 30 minLecture4.3
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3-3: Numbers and Water for Wildlife 30 minLecture4.4
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3-4: Measurement and Places to Raise Young Wildlife 30 minLecture4.5
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3-5: Data Collection and Sustainable Practices for Wildlife 30 minLecture4.6
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Module 4: Math Gardens for Art and Beauty
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4-0: Welcome to Gardens for Art and Beauty 30 minLecture5.1
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4-1: Time & Labyrinths 30 minLecture5.2
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4-2: Patterns, Shapes, and Symmetry & The Flower Garden 30 minLecture5.3
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4-3: Numbers & Art in the Garden 30 minLecture5.4
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4-4: Measurement & Sculpture 30 minLecture5.5
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4-5: Data Collection & Performance Stages 30 minLecture5.6
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LIVE WORKSHOP #2Lecture5.7
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I can’t wait for the kids to come back and share and create with them. I’ve learned so many new ways to add math and learning to our outdoor spaces. Many of the ideas are things I’ve never thought of. I’ve already started working on putting together a mud kitchen and have collected pavers that the kids can paint and decide where they would like to put them and which learning station they will lead to. I really enjoyed this class, I made a journal but I know I will come back for more inspiration often!!
Hokkaido show garden ingenious and relaxing! nope I couldn’t create that myself. Maybe through trial and error I could get some type of music from the wood.
I enjoyed listening to the birds. I think a recording of the birds in the early morning would be nice and ask the children to help identify the different birds. Ask them do you think they are responding to each other or just possibly their mate?
To me it was alot of chatter and a chorus of different species.
I didn’t know birds held a territory.
Could they go outside and listen too?
Ok, I will pay someone to create a show garden for me, that was stunning. The most music I will have is the music wall I will create from I believe, module 2. This class has brought me back to teaching life again.
I have been taking screen shots of ideas to explain to my teachers how much fun this will be. I wish I could spend more time involving myself in the creating process, but Covid-19 I’m sure will dominate all my time in the very beginning.
I said in the first zoom meeting, I would become a trash picker and that’s exactly what has happened. My car is full of all types of items that people have been getting rid of. When I explain to them why I want it, they usually want the it back, for themselves.
Thank you Victoria, for taking a center that is usually filled with, some type of manipulative and bringing it alive again. Thank you for getting me excited about math, where were you when I was in preschool????? I might have been the next state treasurer.LOL
This warms my heart!! I am so excited for you. Thank you for the kind words.
I am so intrigued by this class! The ideas and activities are amazing and are some things that I never thought about doing. I wish I had the chance to do these with the children at my center as it would have made it more interesting and to observe their interactions. Thank you so much for an awesome time. I would love to come back and re-visit and show you some of the things that I would like to implement once we return. It really has been a pleasure taking this course. Th am you again. This will absolutely go to use as I have already started sharing with other teachers! Thank you again!
YES!!!! Please come back and show me what you have created! It was so much fun to see some of the new outdoors spaces from teachers on our Zoom call. So cool!
I love the idea of using a simple pallet as a stage! The children love to perform. I am thinking of making a stage and we can add props/artifacts that would allow for more exploration such as instruments or costumes. These would need to be changed and brought inside.
I have gotten so many wonderful ideas from this course – not only math related but ways to further explore nature and do activities outside. I think being outside is going to be even more important than ever returning back to school.
I would like to make a plan – a map – of changes or additions to my playground that I would like to add in the coming months and years such as outdoor art display, additions to our mud kitchen, a ladder used for creating planting spaces, a performance area, potted plants, and so much more.
Thank you for all the inspiration.
You are most welcome! I can’t wait to see how your project comes out.
I really enjoyed the idea of a dawn chorus. When I was younger and able to sleep in, I often groaned when birds started singing in the morning… now I really enjoy it and I love the idea of labeling it as chorus and listen for other sounds as well, leaves in the wind, rain, etc
This course was a pleasure to take. I feel like the timing could not have been better. With new early childhood education guidelines and protocols coming, I feel a lot of activities will only be possible outdoors. Having this treasure trove of ideas to incorporate math outdoors is just wonderful. Thank you for putting together such a well thought out, comprehensive, easy to follow course. I am looking forward to tonight’s zoom to finish the course!
Ida..you have been a pleasure. Your energy and enthusiasm are wonderful. This will work as your final reflection. If you can email it to me–that would be great.
I have had the ultimate outdoor stage in my mind for 30 years, but alas money always runs out before it comes to fruition. We have made mock stages by pulling back the swings and hanging curtains from the structure. How amazing is the Hokkaido Gardens Garden of Sound. We are very lucky because our director is married to an ornithologist. While not there at dawn, she pauses activities on the playground to point out a bird and his song. We have created sensory walks each summer in tubs placed in a continuous line. It would be wonderful to create a permanent sensory walk structure, planning the size and pattern with the children. My goal for this summer is to create a story walk throughout the grounds with stations posting and illustrating parts of a book. So many ideas gathered here will help facilitate this project.
So wonderful. I like the image of using the swing sets as a stage! Brilliant ideas!
My children love to perform! In our classroom we have a stage and outside we have a wooden area that would make a perfect stage! I’m sure they would enjoy setting up the audience outside much like they do inside.
This course has given me many great ideas to take back to school with me! I’m a little bummed I wasn’t able to try out most because of remote learning but I had fun learning about new ways to engage my class when we return. I was able to adapt so of the experiences to the remote learning platform which has been great! Can’t wait to get started 🙂 I’ll be on the last Zoom call on Wednesday!
Yea YOU!!! Nice work!
I absolutely loved the Hokkaido Show Gardens and how interwoven the man made sounds were with the nature sounds. It is a beautiful art installation as well as musical garden. It was very calming to me as I listened to it. I used to be an early riser and would hear much of the Lowell “dawn chorus” on my walk to work and now I don’t hear it as much since I am not getting ready as early even when we were going to work but I think I am going to try really hard and get up a little earlier and even just go sit outside my apartment on the parking lot side walk and listen to the nature sounds before I start my day. I will bring many of the ideas from this class, though I will make sure to start small and do it one at a time, back to my classroom now that I have ideas written down and I can’t wait to see what the children do with it. Also, I can probably incorporate some of these ideas into some of the FB activities that we are posting for parents especially since much of it are things they could find around their house inside and outside. Thanks for all of your help and I will see you on the final zoom call.
Awesome job!! Great work. See you soon.
I was very excited to enroll in this class of Growing Math Outdoors. All of these ideas and suggestions did not disappoint! Thank you so much for your knowledge and input in to every garden, your ideas and the reasons behind them will definitely grow with me as I incorporate them in to my lessons! It was a pleasure working with you!! Thank you again!
Terrific! We have one more Zoom workshop next week! Looking forward.
Wow! That Hokkaido Show Garden is amazing! To have the musical background and creativity to build that, I am envious. I have created a rain machine for outdoor water fun by tacking different size aluminum pans to a dowel, poking holes in the pans and letting the children pour water into the top pan and watch/listen to the water trickle down through the pans to the bottom. It is a bit musical. I love to hear the birds when I go outdoors. I am the type of person that doesn’t remember which bird song is which, even when I am told. The blended chorus is what I enjoy the most. I like the idea of creating an outdoor performance stage. Children love to act out their fantasies or stories they are familiar with and why not do it outdoors.
This whole e-course was a breath of fresh air for an outdoor lover/teacher. It opened my eyes to connecting math skills with gardening projects and nature related activities. I have a notebook full of ideas to use when we get back to normal. I will certainly use some ideas in my summer nature program. I am sorry that there wasn’t anyone else taking it with me to bounce more ideas at the same time. I enjoyed reading the past participants’ comments.
Congratulations! Thrilled you enjoyed the class. Thank you for your kind words. It’s good to know it was a “breath of fresh air”; especially during these times.
It’s amazing how often our students break into a musical number on the playground, usually while standing along the fence or on the mud kitchen platform. I wonder if having something as simple as a palate would inspire them. We just recently had a music wall installed outside. Made up of a palate with pots, pans, cookie sheets and lids strategically hung, with wooden and metal “drum sticks”.
Your outdoor learning stations are growing and the children are inspired! 🙂
Hi Victoria
It seems to look like I’ve only 96% finished to course not sure why in the welcome module it says I only did 4 out of 5. I didn’t see anywhere else to press complete? I was just hoping to complete so I could get me certificate?
Thanks Katy
I had a wonderful Turkey day hope you did too!
Katy! Yes…your certificate is on the way! Congratulations.
The Hokkaido Show Gardens – Garden of Sound – was astonishing ! Thank you for sharing the video. I can’t wait to research how they constructed their “musical instrument”. It also serves as a beautiful outdoor sculpture. I loved your question about man-made versus nature-made sound. It helped me listen to the composition in a whole new way. It was a delightful experience to compare and contrast the man-made sounds and the nature made sounds all in one setting.
I’ve loved your e-course and will miss finding your links to each new segment in my Inbox ! You introduced us to so many new ideas using simple, accessible items both man-made and nature-made. I enjoyed the journeys to other places, like Canada and Japan, through your use of well-chosen videos. Your suggested books were terrific and easy to find online and in our local library system. It is heartening to know that many others share our love of the outdoors and are finding ways to incorporate the outdoors into the curriculum. How wonderful for both the students and their teachers. Thank you, Victoria !
Oh…Kerlin! It has been a joy to have you in this e-Course. Thank you for participating so fully and soaking in all the details. A true gardener.
We enjoy to listen to the outdoor when we head outdoors and sometimes we hear a bird or animal but don’t alway see it so then we guess what it could be . We are fortunate to abut wetlands so have quite a lot of animal activity. We have many bunnies on our playground and we had a porcupine visit this summer!
Victoria I have been so inspired by your course its been quite a journey of wonderful experiences ! It felt a little overwhelming at first as I just wanted to do everything that you shared! Now I have a wonderful resource and notes of all the great seeds of inspiration that you shared for future use! I really enjoyed the mud kitchen piece as we have been wanting one at our school for a while now and it got me on a mission to make one which I did with the help of a colleagues husband. Will send you pics when up and running!!
thanks again Katy
Thank you Katy!! A pleasure to have you and your wonderful energy in this group! I look forward to following your adventures and seeing pictures of your Mud Kitchen! Keep up the great work!
For this section of the 4th module, I connected most to the “Dawn Chorus.” I think that my student would love to create a routine of listening to a dawn chorus. Even if this just looked like opening the windows if it were a day that we could not get outside. We could make a graph (similar to a daily weather chart) of what we hear each day. Was it mostly birds? People? Rain? Wind? We often chart our weather to see which month brings the most sunshine, clouds, rain, snow or wind. I think my students would love to chart what kinds of things they can hear outside in the morning as well.
This course has been so refreshing to my teaching! As a first grade teacher in a public school, I have felt a lot of my creativity stripped away by mandated math and ELA programs that are designed for learning inside of the classroom. This course energized my teaching, and brought so much more enjoyment to my students as we learned about topics in math that we may not have touched on until much later in the year. The topics of time, patterns, numbers, measurement and data were interwoven throughout the curriculum. My students now ask to go outside with our math and ELA topics all of the time, and I love to see their curiosity grow along with mine! I am so glad to have taken a course that brings back play and kinesthetic connections to my teaching and more importantly, to my student’s learning!
Heather….what a wonderful addition you have been this course! Your insight and willingness to explore each concept and how it fits into your first-grade classroom was exciting to watch. I am excited to watch what happens next. Sending lot’s of love your way with the arrival of your new baby on the way. Thank you so much for all that you do to reconnect children with nature. It brings me incredible joy to know that your first graders are asking to go outside with your math topics! You did that! Yea! What memories they will now have.
I have loved this course. I think it is one of my favorites and I enjoyed the zoom calls.
Thrilled you enjoyed it!! I will send your certificate shortly.