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Teacher Training
Waste Not Want Not.... The Sustainable Lessons of a Historic Farm
Summer 2010
“Work Smarter, Not Harder – Connecting Farm Lessons to the Elementary & Middle School Curriculum”
Teachers will have opportunity to adapt the lessons of a local historic interpretive farm to make science and social studies
connections to the elementary
and middle school curriculum. Participants will consider the impact of individual actions on local and global communities, and reflect upon the economy
of resources.
Topics/Themes will include:
• Scarcity and Abundance in the context of conservation, preservation and sustainability
• Community, including cartography, needs & wants
• Measurement, including scales, weights & measures
• Biology, including gardening and dairy production
• Life Cycles, including hay production, seasons of a year, daily and weekly cycles on an 1880 dairy farm
• History & Development of the NYC Reservoir System and its permanent impact on Northern
Westchester
Instructor: Mary Jo Gallo
Grades: 3-8
Location: Muscoot Farm
Fee: $165
Dates: July 1, 2 - 8 am – 4 pm
Co-sponsored with P/NWBOCES Center for Environmental Education
For information about this workshop, contact Dorna Schroeter at dschroeter@pnwboces.org or call 914-248-2335.
To register: Go to My Learning Plan at www.pnwboces.org/catalog and select
Center for Environmental Education.
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