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Welcome 5
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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 7
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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 7
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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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Module 3: Math Gardens that Attract Wildlife 6
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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 6
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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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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.