Community-Based Secondary Education Guides

These Educators Guides are designed around the community-based approach which unites the classroom and the community in the teaching and learning process. Guides provide methods that teachers can use in creating community-based instruction in a variety of topic areas or in applying the community-based approach to field and laboratory activities in biology.

Educator's Guide to Program Development in Natural Resources
An introductory guide to developing community-based education and ecosystem management instruction as organizing frameworks around natural resource-based studies. 90 pages.

Community as a Context for Learning
A detailed guide for developing community-based lessons including tools and resources to connect the classrooms to the community. 252 pages.

Community-based Natural Resource Activities for Biology
A series of community-based activities designed for high school biology classes. 114 pages.

Educator's Guide to American Indian Perspectives in Natural Resources    For educators looking to include American Indian perspectives in their courses, this manual provides current information and approaches to tribal use and management of natural resources. Two leading Indian authors discuss Traditional Ecological Knowledge and western science as well as current work and important background information necessary for inclusion into a natural resource or environmental program. 231 pages.

Community-based Education: Model Programs                                      This educator’s guide provides a glimpse into what is possible when teachers and their students embrace the community-based approach. It contains the stories of 5 programs that have effectively used community-based education in their respective school settings. The stories included here will provide both inspiration and ideas on how to take your students and school on this journey. 74 pages