TREES: An Exploration!

Part 1 of 2 Check out our 10-session unit and see what’s happening on tree Mondays! The Beginning!: Have you ever wondered if you and your students could co-create a unit of study? That’s just what we do with emergent, place-based education (PBE) curriculum at Engelmann Mountain School. The pictures above show where our students …

A Day in the Life at Engelmann Mountain school: Modeling the Watershed

Here is one example of a recent lesson given to students at Engelmann Mountain School. It shows the way our school bridges the environmental and educational paradigms through a fun and creative approach. This exercise also illustrates the importance of one ecological problem in particular that humans face in general and that we face on …