Outdoor Learning Guide This Guide will provide you with information and resources about: What is an Outdoor Learning Area?How to Make Your Own Outdoor Learning AreaWhat to Do In the Outdoor ClassroomHow to Keep an Outdoor Classroom Going (or Revitalize an Abandoned One)Connecting with Kindred SpiritsOutdoor Classrooms and The Big Picture Resources for Your Outdoor ClassroomWhat is an Outdoor Classroom?Any outdoor space used for student exploration, inquiry and learning is an outdoor classroom. Some schools make gardens the focalpoint of their outdoor education programs. Others focus on recycling and composting. How to Make Your Own Outdoor Classroom The first step in planning an outdoor education program is to inventory the school grounds and identify interesting features. What to Do In the Outdoor Classroom Sample “Lessons, Activities and Investigations for the Outdoor Classroom” for a quick start. Connecting with Kindred Spirits Tip #4: Feeling isolated between Symposia? Outdoor Classrooms and The Big Picture
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Ecosystems We're All in This Together Everything in the natural world is connected. An ecosystem is a community of living and non-living things that work together. Ecosystems have no particular size. An ecosystem can be as large as a desert or a lake or as small as a tree or a puddle. The More the Merrier A healthy ecosystem has lots of species diversity and is less likely to be seriously damaged by human interaction, natural disasters and climate changes. Life in a Lake In a lake ecosystem, the sun hits the water and helps the algae grow. Getting Along Ecosystems have lots of different living organisms that interact with each other. Producers are the green plants. There are three types of consumers: herbivores are animals that eat plants, carnivores are animals that eat herbivores and sometimes other carnivores and omnivores are animals that eat plants and other animals. The third type of living organism in an ecosystem are the decomposers. Parts and Pieces What are the major parts of an ecosystem?
Trunks & Kits - WCEE Library | UWSP Are you looking for hands-on on teaching resources for a specific topic? There is an amazing array of educational trunks and kits available to educators. Many of these trunks can be borrowed for a few weeks at a time and contain fun hands-on props, posters, puppets, and activity guides. Click on the item you are interested in to learn how you can borrow one for your classroom, club, or nature center today. The WCEE is now allowing some trunks and kits to be shipped for a fee paid by the borrower. Effective January 1, 2017. Bat Trunks (K-6) Educators may check out one of Wisconsin's bat educational trunks for use in the classroom free of charge. Request this kit Bat Trunk (7-12) This trunk is provided by Project EduBat and is designed to help educators explore the wonders of bats with middle and high school students through fun, hands-on activities. BioBlitz Kit Series The BioBlitz Kit Series provides hands-on resources to enhance outdoor teaching activities. Request this kit Request this kit
Calculate Consulting Fees - A how to guide I frequently get questions how to calculate consulting fees so i decided to write a step-by-step guide to describe how to do it. Here's my quick, easy and foolproof 7 step method to calculate consulting fees for independent consultants that are based on real data to avoid guesswork as much as possible. It's by no means the only way to calculate your consulting fees but it's a good start. P.S Why don't you go over to consultingvideos.com and get free videos, excel sheets and manuals how to calculate consulting fees? Step 1: Calculate your working hours per year Let's make the following assumptions: There are 52 weeks per year (fairly safe assumption)You take 5 weeks' vacationYou take 7 days off for national holidaysYou take 5 days off for sick leaveA normal workweek is 40 hours Work hours per year are now: (52-5) x 40 - 7x8 - 5x8 = 1,784 hours per year based on the assumptions we just made. Step 2: Estimate your billable hours Let us for simplicity assume you spend: Hey Consultant!
Consulting fee rates | Consultant fees Consulting fees, consulting fees…How do you set consulting fees? Here’s a guide to setting consulting fee rates. (It’s also applicable to those wondering how to set consultancy fees — an independent consultant is still a consultancy and so is a freelancer!) When you become a consultant, you’ll need to set consulting fees. The main strategies for setting consulting fees include: Doubling/tripling your hourly wageUsing a daily rate for consultingSetting consultant fees by the projectSetting consulting fees based on performanceSetting consultant fees strategically using real-life dataCharging what everyone else chargesMoving to Solution-based Fees (Want even more info? Main Strategies for Setting Consulting Fees 1. To set fees, some consultants simply take the hourly wage (plus benefits) that they would earn when working on salary for someone else and then double or triple it. Let’s say you make $60k a year plus benefits and you get four weeks of paid leave . 2. 3. Bohr examines the machine.
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Teachers | Welcome Teachers! Aquarium of the Pacific Web Image PrevNext Home > Teachers > Welcome Teachers! Welcome Teachers! Teachers Welcome to the Aquarium of the Pacific Teacher Resources site. Here you will find everything you might need to help you bring the ocean and hands-on science into your classroom. From professional development opportunities, lectures, and workshops, to lesson plans for your classroom, we hope to be your source of inexpensive, realistic, and useful ideas. Do you have a field trip already planned to the Aquarium? We hope you keep coming back to see what new ideas and events we have to offer you. From the Teachers Blog Educator Update Friday, January 24, 2014 Introducing Dr. Meet our new blogger from the Aquarium’s education department, Jenny Lentz. Read More... Permalink Scavenger Hunts Just print and go! Plan Your Visit Education Get Involved Special Events General Info Chinese | Español | Deutsch | Français | Japanese | Korean Connect with us on: