Best Practices for Field Days E-Tips for Environmental Educators
The EE E-Tip for Field Days is the quarterly source for practical tips to raise the impact of field days and other environmental science education programs. EE E-tip welcomes new subscribers, your proven tips, and suggestions for improving this resource. Send your ideas to meyer179@umn.edu.
To Subscribe to the EE E-Tip for Field Days
The EE E-Tip for Field Days can be emailed directly to you 4-times per year. You can subscribe to the EE E-Tip by contacting Nate Meyer at University of Minnesota Extension.
Recent tips:
- Spring 2008 - EE E-Tip: Make your theme a declarative sentence.
- Winter 2008 - EE E-TIP: Begin with Clear Learning Objectives for Your Field Day.
- Summer 2007 - EE E-TIP: Create plenty of signs, good maps, and orient all presenters, teachers, volunteers, and participants to the event and rotation of groups through presentations before beginning activities.
- Spring 2007 - EE E-TIP: Allow students to work in pairs or teams to solve problems and make discoveries during your field days.
- Winter 2007 - EE E-TIP: Clarify your audience's need for your event.
- Fall 2006 (Inaugural Edition) - EE E-TIP: To clarify your event theme, avoid the use of scientific/technical jargon.
