The Center for Learning with Nature is honored to be the recipient of a grant from the United Engineering Foundation. The United Engineering Foundation traces its origins to 1904, when it was first founded with funding from Andrew Carnegie. The United Engineering Foundation’s vision is to advance the engineering arts and…
The National Science Foundation has awarded a grant to The Center for Learning with Nature and our partners at the College of Education at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. The three-year grant will support the evaluation of pre-service teacher training and the implementation of a new, Nature-oriented STEM curriculum for…
The Center for Learning with Nature continues its commitment to offer free online professional development for K-12 teachers. We will be offering a week long PD for using the Engineering Inspired by Nature curriculum for high school, middle, and upper elementary teachers this summer, from July 10-14. This link will…
In collaboration with Great Lakes Biomimicry and the Hawken School, The Center for Learning with Nature is excited to offer a workshop for teachers on the award-winning Engineering Inspired by Nature curriculum. The workshop is scheduled this summer from June 16-18, and is open to upper elementary, middle, and high school teachers….
Director Sam Stier has been invited by the Mojave Environmental Education Consortium (MEEC) to conduct professional development for teachers working in the Mojave Desert area in Southern California. MEEC improves the environmental literacy of students, teachers, and communities of the Mojave Desert Region by actively providing educational resources. The workshop…
Director Sam Stier has been invited to keynote the Utah Association of Elementary School Principals Mid-Winter Conference, in St. George, a gathering of some 300 principals and superintendents from the southern Utah region.
We’re excited to be partnering with Education Outside to help pilot our Earth Innovators program. Education Outside advances science education and environmental literacy by teaching outdoors in public schools, sparking children’s interest in science and connecting them to the natural world through hands-on learning in school gardens. With the help…
We’re excited to be launching a new engineering and design program for upper elementary grades! The Earth Innovators Program will support and highlight the work of teachers doing Nature-inspired design projects with their students in 4th and 5th grade. Aligned with the NGSS, the program will provide curricula materials, professional development, and more…
The Los Angeles Times published this piece by The Center for Learning with Nature’s Director today. The article traces the connection between concrete, climate change, the Syrian conflict and extremism, and technological innovation inspired by coral. The LA Times is the largest metropolitan newspaper in circulation in the U.S., and the…
Director Sam Stier will lead 400 middle school students and train over 50 educators in bio-inspired design activities at this year’s BioFest, the two-day festival hosted by the Tolfree Foundation in West Branch, Michigan. This year’s BioFest combines National Geographic’s BioBlitz with “BioVation”, an exploration of Nature-inspired solutions to benefit life on Earth.
In acknowledgement of the National Science Foundation’s support in developing some of our materials.
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