Working with Schools

LLA branches out, providing our maps and educational materials to schools in our region.

LLA’s SCIENTIFIC MAPS GO TO SCHOOL

In 2017, LLA received a Wellborn Ecology Fund Grant to support our pilot project working with teachers from the following schools: Thetford Academy, Woodstock Union High School, Newton School in Strafford and Sharon Academy.

The grant allowed us to:

• Meet with the teachers to learn about their classes

• Provide each teacher with large format, durable town maps and LLA’s 10-town regional maps

• Hire an educational consultant well versed in Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) to create curriculum for the teachers as well as a detailed teacher training packet with a template for the teachers to create their own curriculum

• Hold a teacher roundtable to learn how teachers were using their maps and go through the educational packet and resources available on this website (ie: videos and teacher forum, an interactive site for teachers to exchange ideas)

Using LLA’s maps in classrooms puts lessons into perspective – making them real – enabling students to tie their lessons to their backyard and towns.

“I used the maps during units on scale/models and while teaching about migration/land management choice.”

“Unit looked at moose and trout population. Maps provide basis for initial work looking at habitat. Students evaluated the solutions put in place to address moose population decline.”

“The maps are valuable because they are a concrete example of how we are impacting habitat. You can’t really see the fragmentation until you look at the bigger picture. It is valuable to have students get familiar with them [the maps] and then have them around the room for the duration of the unit so you can keep referring back to them and discussing them as you go.”

LLA’s SCIENTIFIC MAPS GO TO SCHOOL 2

LLA’s SCIENTIFIC MAPS GO TO SCHOOL

Project expands to 37 VT Towns & 36 NH TOwns

LLA Scientific Maps go to School Project continues to partner with teachers in VT and NH.

We:

• Provide each teacher with LLA’s large format durable town maps and regional maps

• Hold a teacher orientation to introduce teachers to LLA’s educational materials and resources including; LLA’s maps, educational materials developed by an NGSS expert and resources available on this website.

  Contact us, if you would like to partner with LLA. Linkinglands@gmail.com

Teachers and Students using LLA’s Maps

teacher RESOURCES

Maps Go to School Teacher Training Workbooks

LLA Map Activities Explore Your Regional Map; Town Map scavenger hunt; Bobcat Activity; NGSS Travel Corridors; 5-part NGSS Home Landscape Unit

Wildlife Range Transparencies to use with regional maps

Download Moose Transparency

Download Bobcat Transparency

Download Bear Transparency

How Much Land Do a Moose, Bear and Bobcat Require? To use with the transparencies.

Teacher Forum where teachers share how they are using LLA's maps

Teachers Using LLA’s Maps

How teachers are using LLA’s maps

Species Loss with Fragmentation

Our Vermont Woods Information, programs, and partners to assist you in sharing the woods with students.

NH Wildlife Education provides high-quality professional development for teachers, and our school-based programs align with the Next Generation Science Standards.

NH Teacher Curriculum Resources from NH Fish and Game.

NH Curriculum Resources for the Watershed Education Program from NH Fish and Game.

Keep Forests Healthy The tool provides a rapid and simple process to assess forest resiliency. This publication contains background information on important characteristics of resilient and healthy forests and examples of potential adaptation strategies. It is accompanied by a scorecard to be used in the field to evaluate the resiliency of a forest.

The Resilient Forest Series by Northern Woodlands Linked print, audio and video works that explore the relationships and traditions that have helped keep forests intact. The series will also consider how human and natural communities are adapting to change.

Vermont Conservation Design Maintaining and enhancing ecological function across the landscape is fundamental to conserving biological diversity.

Project Wild

Northern Woodlands Goes to School program provides classroom teachers with free digital copies of the magazine. Current teachers and homeschooling parents are welcome to sign up.

Wildlife Management and Outdoor Education Techniques for Educators

Introduction to the Next Generation Science Standards video by Bozeman Science

The Understanding by Design guide to creating high-quality units. Wiggins, G., & McTighe, J. (2011). Alexandria, VA: ASCD. 

Visit our Educational Material page for more fun and educational links

Explore and share your students’ observations from the natural world

iNaturalist Contribute to Science. Every observation can contribute to biodiversity science, from the rarest butterfly to the most common backyard weed. We share your findings with scientific data repositories like the Global Biodiversity Information Facility to help scientists find and use your data. All you have to do is observe.

Journey North Post your sightings and follow migrations of Monarchs, Birds and other animals

Thank you for making this work possible!

New Hampshire Charitable Foundation 

LLA's Where Wildlife Roam and Scientific Maps Go To School Projects were funded by  grants from the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation’s Wellborn Ecology Fund.

Northern Woodlands

The Place You Call Home Donation