Introduction

Hello everyone, I would like to introduce the National Museum of Forest Service's Conservation Education Working group blog. The purpose of this blog is to bring together a group of voices from varying backgrounds with differing ideas and needs from a Conservation Education program in order to begin to develop a truly useful and comprehensive program that can become a valuable tool for all levels of education.

This is how it would work:

All members of the team would be given electronic permission to create new postings on this site in order to develop new ideas and suggestions. This will require all team members to take a few minutes and create a Google account.

For those of you that have not used this kind of tool, let me assure you that is extremely easy to use, and it can prove to be a tremendous tool for collaboration with a little effort.

Also, both team members, and non-team members would be able to post comments about items that are being posted.

Finally, this blog could also be a place to collect any electronic resources that we think might be helpful in developing an end product. (websites, pictures, ect.)

Friday, October 8, 2010

OK Lets See If We Can Get Going

First off a quick thank you to those who have posted thier introductions.

Now I'd like to see if we can get a discussion going. Some of you may know that here in a couple of weeks I am doing a 50 minute presentation and workshop for social studies teachers at the annual Montana Educators Association conference in Helena, Montana. I would like to see If we can generate at least one fruitful discussion on this blog that I can show them as a way to recruit a few into this effort.

On that note, the first thing I though we could do is knock some ideas around about what kinds of products a museum education program could provide to teachers (History, Government, English, Art, ect.) beyond the typical lesson plans.

In order to respond: If you have extensive comments go ahead and make a new post
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3 comments:

  1. DrewOctober 8, 2010 at 2:21 PM

    I was wondering if these are going to be products for teachers while the students are at the museum or if it is for teachers to use in their classrooms?

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  2. Matt BaconOctober 11, 2010 at 6:54 AM

    Drew--I would like to focus primarily on products that teachers could use in their classrooms

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  3. Dick BaconOctober 16, 2010 at 12:01 PM

    I am looking forward to seeing this get off the ground. We have some talented help as noted in our introductions and I know that we have more talented folks that are sitting in the wings waiting for the blog to get moving. I have been working with our Missoula support group on a product that I will call a road map. The objective is to attach the Conservation story to our nation's history. There are four parts. Period events,The governments response,what is taking place on the ground, and the Jobs that the Forest Service must undertake. I think that it would be useful if we could produce a quick reference document that teachers could use when prepairing lesson plans. I would like to share this document with our Blog members in the very near future.

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