Day+2+-+Cultivate+a+Sense+of+Place

===Please make any comments about our activities today - what was useful to you, how might you use what you learned and how might you adapt what we did to meet the needs of your curricula? During the school year or as you think of how to use these lessons, please make comments as well.===

=**Our Field Trip in the Raritan Watershed**=


 * 1) Visit to Woodrow Wilson Middle School in Edison NJ**

Observe, create questions, refine questions and create an investigation. Building a sense of "how" to use inquiry effectively with students.

Post some of your observations. What questions did you come up with and how did you refine them to be more open-ended? = = = What did you design as a field investigation? = SEE SEPARATE PAGE WITH ALL TEACHER FIELD INVESTIGATIONS - THESE ARE GREAT RESOURCES FOR EVERYONE!!!

Cathy uses her outdoor classroom across disciplines. She teaches math skills, social studies, biology, genetics, ecology, and language arts.
 * 2) Tour of Cathy's Outdoor Classroom **

What would you do if you could take your students outdoors? How would you integrate other content areas? Cathy Nee: Integration of math & science; English teachers have had their students write poetry; SS have connected the themes of geography to the outdoor classroom. Other activities I have done:

Using the bus ride scavenger hunt, teachers looked for the following: a) contaminated site b) a designated "open space" c) various types of surfaces that don't "absorb" water. d) evidence of flooding
 * 3) Along the Green Brook and the Bound Brook **



Describe some of the things that you saw and what your impressions were of our bus ride along the river....

The adjacent wetland to the park had different vegetation than what we saw at Duke Farms. We did compare / contrast between the wetlands and the field habitat from Duke Farms.
 * 4) Our stop at Thomae Park.**



What was the extent of flooding during Hurricane Irene? What evidence did we see at the park that told us there had been high water?

Scientific drawing / diagramming helped focus the group on geologic details - elevation, topography, and a cross section of the mountain because of the quarry.
 * 5) Chimney Rock Overlook **



What were the characteristics of the different types of rocks formation that we saw on the other side of the quarry?