Changing Ecosystems:
Tools to Engage Students
Wednesday, October 20, 2021
5:30PM
via Zoom
Speaker: Cleary Vaughan-Lee, Global Oneness Project
Program Description:
In this session with Cleary Vaughan-Lee, executive director of the Global Oneness Project, discover tools which challenge students to consider changing ecosystems around the world. Multimedia stories will be shared which explore ecological understandings from various perspectives, including ones from Indigenous artists and writers, sounds ecologists, astronauts, scientists, and students.
How can students consider the cultural traditions that are intimately tied to local ecosystems which are threatened when the ecosystem itself shifts? What changes are students witnessing in their local ecosystems? Lesson plans and student work will also be shared.
About the Speaker, Cleary Vaughan-Lee:
Cleary is the Executive Director of the Global Oneness Project. She is interested in integrating a humanistic lens with universal values into educational content, asking local to global questions about culture and the living world. Cleary documents ways digital storytelling can be used in the classroom, highlighting teacher and student voices for publications. She conducts teacher and student workshops across the country and presents at regional, national, and international conferences. Cleary volunteers at her son’s high school on their Mission Enhancement Committee and delivers meals to seniors in her community.
In collaboration with MetroWest STEM Education Network.
