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Nathan Stuart's Active Learning Page

Thanks for stopping by. This is my page, it has lots of great stuff about active learning that you can actively explore and hopefully learn about. Below you can find links that you might find interesting. Some of the fun stuff includes the epic story of my grow beasts, Frank and Ernest, my active learning activity, about nice native species and nasty non-native species, and some useful links you might want to use in your own classrooms one eventful day. Before you do that let me tell you a little about myself. I am Nathan, a lover of the outdoors and explorer of all things steep. I want to teach middle school science next year but might end up settling for high school science. I love working with youth of all ages and in the end could be happy with either age range. At the moment my favorite science subject is geology. As you can see from my picture above, I love actively exploring some of Washington's crazy geology. Adventuring in the great outdoors of the Pacific Northwest is pretty much what I do when not in the classroom with kids. I love exploring the outdoors and connecting what I have learned from the classroom to what I discover on the trails I roam. My passion for the outdoors is very active learning involved. What I see and do in the outdoors inspires what I want to learn about in the classroom and what I learn in the classroom inspires what I want to explore in the outdoors, quite a nice little cycle. The principle I will take away from this and try to incorporate into my own classroom is students will love to learn when it is a subject that they are interested in and are able to explore in some form other than a textbook or lecture. This principle worked for me to learn and I plan on making ways for it to work with my students. I think active learning is great. It provides an opportunity for engagement with science curriculum that I think bland old science textbooks come nowhere close to matching. My goal when I teach is to incorporate as much active learning as possible into my classroom. That is all, to the links. Frank and Ernest The Grow Beasts Active Learning Resources ALI Investigation about nasty invasive species Back to the CUIN 561 portfolio page