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50 Years of ERIC
50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Let Peter Rabbit Play in the Garden: Using Beatrix Potter's Work to Integrate Ecological Literacy into Montessori Classrooms
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Johnson, Kelly – Montessori Life: A Publication of the American Montessori Society, 2015
Kelly Johnson introduces a series of lessons that incorporate literacy, observation, botany, history, place studies, writing, and art, with a long-term eco-literacy goal of connectedness and a conservation ethic. Johnson's initial idea to use Beatrix Potter as a model in the Lower Elementary classroom came after extensively researching…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Elementary Education, Primary Education, Childrens Literature
Montessori and Nature Study: Preserving Wonder through School Gardens
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Johnson, Kelly – Montessori Life: A Publication of the American Montessori Society, 2013
Current research suggests that nature experience and the cultivation of environmental literacy among students contributes to creative thinking, improved academic performance, and positive relationships with the natural world (Children and Nature Network, retrieved June 2013). Author Kelley Johnson saw this in her own childhood, which was blessed…
Descriptors: Montessori Schools, Montessori Method, Gardening, Outdoor Education