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3 people are interested
Garden-Based Education Docent - Los Altos
ORGANIZATION: Living Classroom
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3 people are interested
Living Classroom is seeking volunteers who are excited about sharing their love of nature with children by teaching our fun hands-on garden-based lessons in the Los Altos School District. Once trained, our volunteers become official Living Classroom docents who lead and assist with lessons from Transitional Kindergarten through 8th grade in nine public schools. Lessons cover topics such as life cycles, photosynthesis, decomposition, ecology, biodiversity and more!
In our second grade "From Seed to Pretzel" lesson series, students explore and plant wheat in the fall and then harvest, thresh, and grind their wheat into flour in the springtime and use the whole wheat flour to make delicious pretzels to eat!
When:
It's flexible! We'll work with your schedule. Most volunteers assist with and/or lead garden-based lessons during the school day. We also have garden and office projects that can be done anytime, including weekends and/or evenings.
Where:
Springer, Santa Rita, Almond, Loyola, Covington, Oak, and Gardner Bullis Elementary Schools in Los Altos, CA 94024. We occasionally teach lessons at Blach and Egan Junior High Schools as well.
Requirements:
- No teaching and/or gardening experience necessary! We teach you everything you need to know!
- Formal t raining on Mondays from 9-Noon starting in September (you can join us anytime though).
- Apprentice-style training available for those who cannot attend Monday training sessions.
- Must observe/assist with lessons before leading them.
- Minimum of 6 hours per month (assist with and/or lead at least 3 lessons a month).
- Teaching docents must have available time during school day 8:15am-3:00pm.
More opportunities with Living Classroom
No additional volunteer opportunities at this time.
About Living Classroom
Location:
P.O. Box 3501, Los Altos, CA 94024, US
Mission Statement
To inspire children to learn about and value our natural world through garden-based education.
Description
Living Classroom provides hands-on, outdoor and nature-based learning experiences in science, math, social studies and nutrition using school gardens. We are supporting a new generation of students that are excited about science, connected to nature and are equipped and inspired to build a future that is environmentally sustainable.
Our gardens are ecological learning laboratories that provide beautiful and stimulating learning environments and consist of both edible and native habitat gardens.
Our lessons are integrated into the regular school day and support the Next Generation Science and Common Core standards. Volunteer docents play an important role by teaching half of our lessons to K-6 students in public schools in Mountain View, Los Altos and Palo Alto.
Docents are provided with full training and can pick and choose which grades and lessons they would like to teach. Special enrichment events are also available for docents to learn more about our local ecology and natural history, tour amazing local gardens, and learn about other topics of interest.
CAUSE AREAS
WHEN
WHERE
Springer, Santa Rita, Almond, Loyola, CovingtonOak, Gardner Bullis Elementary SchoolsOccasionally at Blach and Egan Junior High SchoolsLos Altos, CA 94024
DATE POSTED
July 11, 2018
SKILLS
- Math / Science Instruction
- Teaching / Instruction
- Habitat Restoration
- Botany
- Environmental Education
- Gardening
GOOD FOR
N/A
REQUIREMENTS
- Orientation or Training
- Minimum of 6 hours per month
- See bullet list in description