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What is CLEARING?

CLEARING is a quarterly, non-profit publication for K-12 and non-formal educators in the field of natural resources, environmental, and place-based education. It had its origins in the Pacific Northwest, but now circulates to educators across North America.

Each issue of CLEARING contains a variety of useful and timely articles and features on environmental and place-based education themes and topics, including:

•Perspectives
Thought-provoking essays on education and environmental topics from some of the leading thinkers in the field.

•Teaching Ideas
Successful strategies for integrating environmental education into the curriculum.

•Lesson Plans and Activities
Actual classroom-tested teaching units that will inform and inspire you, plus K-12 activities divided by subject area and grade level.

•Model Programs
Insightful articles looking at successful and innovative classroom and community-based educational programs that are models for emulation.

•Resource Materials
The latest teaching materials available on the web or through local and national sources for all grade levels and subject areas.

•Book and Curriculum Reviews
Critical evaluations of EE books and curriculum materials by practicing educators from around the country — including a regular feature on children’s environmental literature.

Articles from past issues

•Teaching and Learning Through the Naturalist Intelligence

• Creating Your Own Classroom Nature Guide

• Why Our Students are Environmentally Illiterate

• Calculating Your Ecological Footprint

• Bringing the Ocean Into the Classroom

• Integrated Learning in a Global Classroom

• Developing Successful Partnerships for Urban Environmental Education

• Our Seashores are Being Studied to Death!

• A Model for Community-based Integrated Instruction
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Issue 111/

Recycling: Completing the Loop by Paulette Rossi

Columbia Basin EE Capacity Building Initiative

McNary Environmental Education Center - Recipe: Exciting Nature Study by Naomi Sherer

Is Your School Making Your Children Sick? by Leslie Comnes

Teaching Nature Journaling and Observation by Clare Walker Leslie

Activity: Looking Ahead

Grounding Environmental Science in the Future: The Environmental Middle School by Dilafruz Williams and Sarah Taylor

Sand Is Fascinating... Really! by Paul D. Komar

Get Wild with Filmmaking by Lisa Blank

EE Resource Guide

Newsletters
This issue covers a wide range of topics, starting off with a compelling essay by Chet Bowers on the need to reform education to include environmental justice. A special contribution from Kim Stokely of Adopt-A-Watershed deals with the hows and whys of connecting students to their community. A reprint from Section Z by Ecotrust focuses on the growing concerns over fossil fuels. A special feature in this issue, one which we hope to repeat in the future, is what we call Clearing's "Master Teachers," who provide suggestions for incorporating article topics throughout the curriculum. In this issue, Jim Martin (former president of the Environmental Education Association of Oregon) shares ideas for incorporating lessons on invasive species.
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Last updated: 10/20/05