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 ocmmunity-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

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.

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

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Updated January 2008.

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