How place-based science education strategies can support equity for students, teachers, and communities

• A practice brief with many embedded resources to help educators engage students in place-based learning, including a community asset mapping strategy, how to connect with local scientists, self-documentation technique, and ways to relate Indigenous and Western science knowledge. 
• Use with educators, families, administrators, professional learning providers to help them envision how they might engage all students by learning about locally relevant phenomena in ways that leverage and are respectful to the history and the people of their community.

Organization Info:

• STEM Teaching Tools at the Institute for Science + Math Education

People to Contact:

Dr. Philip Bell, UW Institute of Science + Math Education [pbell@uw.edu]