Todo sobre las flores: La ciencia de las flores, las plantas y los insectos
Las flores tienen muchas funciones importantes que cumplir. Crean semillas, diversidad genética y permiten que las plantas evolucionen. También alimentan a miles de polinizadores cruciales. Estudia biología, jardinería, ciencia y naturaleza de una manera divertida e interactiva. #académico
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1 reunión en vivo
50 minutos horas presencialesExperiencia de clase
Nivel de inglés: desconocido
Grado de EE. UU. 2 - 5
This is a great class to get your learner hooked on the topic of science and nature. There are so many hidden interactions between plants insects and flowers. In particular, flowers are an interactive hub where pollinators, predatory wasps, and many more species flock to feed on nectar and pollen. Flowers play a crucial role in the creation of seeds, plant reproduction, and thus the cycle of life. Additionally, flowers have adapted a variety of botanical structures to attract specific bugs for specific purposes. And flowers are beautiful! We will look at many beautiful flower pictures and then look closer to examine the ecological role of flowers. There is a hidden drama taking place right under our noses at every moment in the natural world. I hope to make this drama come to life for my students and inspire them to take a closer look at the life around them. The primary purpose of flowers is to allow plants to exchange their genetic material and reproduce, creating genetic diversity and allowing for the evolution of the species. For a portion of this class, we will be talking indirectly about sex as a biological concept. If you are uncomfortable with this please let me know in advance and we can discuss it in more veiled terminology or not at all. I like to lead my classes with questions to create an interactive environment. I want to unlock the knowledge that learners already have and lead them to answers. As a teacher, I am especially good at getting learners to break out of their shell and speak up in the class. Learners are usually surprised by how much they are talking and thinking in my classes, which keeps them talking and thinking about the class even after it ends. However, I also welcome students who aren't comfortable speaking or appearing on screen. I like to include a warm-up game in every one of my classes so that learners can interact with each other and build a sense of community in the classroom. I celebrate neurodiversity and I am happy to work with you to adapt this class to your learners needs. My one-time classes are abbreviated versions of concepts that we will explore more in-depth in my ongoing class, Garden Biology. https://outschool.com/classes/garden-biology-the-science-of-plant-life-gardening-and-the-environment-yEk1G6wO#usKmUJaykT I hope you will join me! -Peter
Metas de aprendizaje
This class will cover:
nectar, biology, pollen, pollination, pollinators, DNA, diversity, plant reproduction, life cycles, predatory insects, beneficial insects, orchids, types of flowers, flower families, gardening, how to garden, how to grow vegetables
Otros detalles
Idioma en el que se imparte la clase
Inglés
Recursos externos
Los estudiantes no necesitarán utilizar ninguna aplicación o sitio web más allá de las herramientas estándar de Outschool.
Experiencia y certificaciones del docente
Fuera de EE. UU. Certificado de Docencia en Inglés para hablantes de otros idiomas
Licenciatura en Ciencia desde Hampshire College
I currently sit on the advisory committee for the Shao Shan Temple Community Garden which works with community members of all ages to create a nourishing space for mindfulness practice, community engagement, and to provide fresh local veggies for the temple programs and the local food shelf.
I received my Outdoor Leadership Certificate from Hanfl Center for Outdoor Education and Environmental Study in 2019 along with an Advanced Wilderness First Aid Certificate.
I had the privilege of managing the gardens at the Art Monastery, which is dedicated to cultivating personal awakening and cultural transformation through art making, spiritual practice, and reciprocity with the earth. I managed volunteers to grow local organic food using ecologically informed techniques. And I am currently planning native perennial pollinator gardens to be planted at their facilities next spring.
I have been teaching English abroad for the last three years. I have a TESOL certificate to teach English as a second language. I have traveled to Thailand and India while teaching English as a second language.
During my Ecology and Agriculture major at Hampshire College I volunteered with Help Yourself Northampton to plant Public Access Food Forests in public spaces around the city. This involved working with the local government to approve such plantings and educating the general public about the importance of food security, food access, and the ecological benefits of diverse gardens as apposed to lawns. I had the privilege of working alongside youth volunteers, talking with them about ecology and gardening as we planted an edible garden next to a bike path in the center of town. I got to work side by side with young people from my community and understand their relationship to food and nature.
I had the privilege of volunteering for Fresh New London; their mission is empowering youth, connecting community and growing food to dismantle systemic oppression and build food sovereignty. Again I had the amazing opportunity to work alongside high school students in the area to talk about gardening and the environment, but also to understand the local community and the needs of a diverse population. We worked to grow culturally relevant food options like Ahi Dulce, a popular sweet pepper from Latin America.
I have also had the opportunity to volunteer at Nuestras Raices, a grassroots urban agriculture organization based in Holyoke, MA. Their mission is to create healthy environments, celebrate “agri-culture,” harness collective energy, and to advance a vision of a just and sustainable future. We worked together with the understanding that cultivating youth leadership can powerfully influence policy and systems change.
I also had the wonderful opportunity to assist with a nature based after school program at Pioneer Valley Chinese Immersion Charter School which used nature games and nature based arts and crafts to teach K-4th grade students about basic ecological principles and basic outdoors skills. We ran activities such as identifying the signs of spring, looking at animal tracks, and building simple shelters to let kids connect with nature, get out of the classroom, and develop useful outdoors skills.
During my six month apprenticeship at Green Gulch Farm and Zen Center in San Francisco, CA I had the opportunity to meet with local high school students to talk with them about mindfulness, meditation, and organic farming during community outreach programs at the farm.
During my time at Hampshire College I worked with the organization Real Food Challenge which is dedicated to mobilizing young people to redefine real food and build a food system that benefits everyone. I worked with youth leaders from around the country to advocate for more ethically and sustainably sourced foods to be served in dining halls in schools around the country.
I was one of the original members of the Pioneer Valley Workers Center Farmworker Organizing Committee. They are pursuing a future in which workers, immigrants, and all people of color, revolutionize the way that we feed and sustain themselves. My role included organizing childcare and education for the farmworker meetings so that the parents could meet and discuss strategies to improve working conditions at local farms.
I was lucky to present at the 2017 Northeast Organic Farmers Association about soil grown sprouts and the environmental benefits of growing fresh greens at home rather than buying them from farms across the country.
I have had the privilege of taking a permaculture design course with Eric Toensmeier, the award-winning author of Edible Forest Gardens and Carbon Farming, and an appointed lecturer at Yale University, and international lecturer. I studied ecosystem mimicry in food production and we discussed innovative techniques to grow food, sequester carbon, and sustain wildlife.
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Edades: 7-12
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