Implementing Problem-Based Learning in the Classroom:

Wednesday, June 14, 2023
OR
Thursday, August 10,2023

Explore Brookfield Zoo’s HABITAT AFRICA and learn practical, engaging strategies to implement problem-based learning in your classroom.

Single-Session:  Wednesday, June 14, 2023 8:30 a.m. - Noon, OR Thursday, August 10, 2023 8:30 a.m. - Noon
Location: Brookfield Zoo
Targeted Grade Level: Educators who teach 3rd - 8th grade 
Professional Development Hours: 3 hours available for participants who attend and participate fully in the session. ISBE number required. 


General Registration Fee: $50 + applicable registration fee
Special Rate-Teaching Safari alumni: $40 + applicable registration fee
Note: Coffee and light refreshments will be served in the morning. Lunch on your own.

Description:
Problem-based learning is an engaging, student-centered approach through which students explore, think critically, and problem-solve as they work together to find solutions to “real-life” issues.  The workshop will explore resources to support questioning, organization, student planning, problem-solving, and reflection. Classroom strategies will be modeled using examples related to giraffes and conservation. Join us for a morning of learning.

Sounds, Ecosystems & Animal Ears...Tuning Up for Active Listening
and Learning in the K-2 Classroom:

Thursday, June 29, 2023
OR
Saturday, August 5,2023

Discover new ways to engage students in learning through exploration of sound in nature!

Single-Session:  Thursday, June 29, 2023 8:30 a.m. - Noon, OR
Saturday, August 5, 2023 8:30 a.m. - Noon              
Location: Brookfield Zoo
Targeted Grade Level: Educators who teach K-2nd Grade 
Professional Development Hours: 3 hours available for participants who attend and participate fully in the session. ISBE number required. 


General Registration Fee: $50 + applicable registration fee
Special Rate-Teaching Safari alumni: $40 + applicable registration fee
Note: Coffee and light refreshments will be served in the morning. Lunch on your own.

Description:
From childhood, humans are connected to ecosystems, plants, and animals through our sense of sound. Listening carefully to the world around us provides new ways to understand and harmonize with the diverse chorus of living plants and animals who inhabit our planet. Phenomenon involving animal adaptations provides exciting phenomenon to spark questions, investigations, and sense-making about vibrations and sound...

In this 3-hour class, participants will:
-explore and practice techniques to engage students with nature through listening, collaboration, and hands-on investigations. 
-gain content knowledge and strategies to support student learning about how animals use hearing adaptations to survive and grow in their habitats. 
-discover strategies to support student investigations based on animal phenomenon, including hands on activities to explore sound wave properties. 

Participants will leave with effective strategies and lesson activities to support 3-dimensional, NGSS learning, as well as new ideas for leveraging Brookfield Zoo exhibits and resources to engage students in discovery and inquiry-based learning. 

Look for more online and in-person classes throughout the year! To join our mailing list, please click this link: Mailing List
 

Learn about Brookfield Zoo's Teaching Safari, a free 35-hour professional learning program for K-12 educators.