McKayla Kendall and Maya Elkadi show off the clay filtration tablets they made to remediate industrial pollution in water. Colby College’s new Alfond Athletics Center was abuzz with excitement on Saturday, March 26. Scientific posters and lab notebooks replaced sports equipment; spiffily-dressed high school students stood in for college athletes. It was a Maine State… [Read More]
Destination Imagination Maine State Tournament 2022
This year, the Reach Project at MMSA held the Destination Imagination Maine State Tournament for the first time. Destination Imagination (DI) is a creative, team-focused STEAM competition for K-12 and university students. Each year teams choose between seven different Team Challenges, and spend months working together to design, build, and create solutions that they present… [Read More]
Teach ME Outside Presents at Upcoming Maine Environmental Education Association Conference
Teach ME Outside will be presenting two workshops at the upcoming Maine Environmental Education Association Conference on April 7. These workshops will be used to share updated resources and professional learning activities to help ensure all Maine youth have access to powerful, hands-on environmental learning opportunities. We will also highlight our community-informed process for conducting… [Read More]
How Many Sticks?
Teaching in the outdoors in Western Maine often has it challenges when it comes to inclement weather. Though we try to go outside in both good weather and bad weather, sometimes it is simply just too wet or too cold. This is often a nearly devastating moment for our students as they look forward to… [Read More]
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Ian Collins
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Brr It’s Cold Outside!
During the cold winter months, my students frequently ask, “Ms. Virgin, are we going outside today?” This week they had heavy hearts when the answer was no. Next came, “If the animals can be outside, how come we can’t?” This was the start of a beautiful learning moment…. We stayed inside and watched a super… [Read More]
Looking for Patterns
One of the activities that was presented in our Numeracy in Nature course sparked an idea to make a connection to one of the books I enjoy sharing with my middle school students “Growing Patterns” by Sarah C. Campbell. We started class by using a Google Jamboard to sort photos of flowers into categories. Students… [Read More]
Shapes & Sticks
For the month of October our focus with our calendar was shapes. We worked on identifying circles, triangles, rectangles and squares. We also introduced 3D shapes. This week when we went into the woods, I thought about ways I could bring our learning about shapes outdoors with us. I started to think about the interest… [Read More]