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On any background reading list for teachers, parents, or kids, I'd 
urge including this young-adult fiction:
Finch Goes Wild, by Janet Gingold (Blue Works, Port Orchard, 
Washington, 2007, paperback isbn 978-1-59092-385-6
http://www.amazon.com/Finch-Goes-Wild-Janet-Gingold/dp/1590923855

Seventh-grader Harmon Finch grows interested in birds in spite of 
himself (and his name). His conversion and its wider consequences for 
him at home and school ring true.  A good read!

Karen



>Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2011 14:01:22 -0400
>From: Anne James Rosenberg <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Request for field trip ideas
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>Hi all,
>
>A group of us at the Cornell Lab are developing a new curriculum for 
>connecting middle school students to nature through birds, and I'd 
>like the input of some educators from this list.
>
>One of the lessons involves taking students out for a field 
>experience to a local park/natural area/nature center. We would like 
>to address the difficulties of taking students on field trips , 
>while also providing inspiring examples. That's where you all come 
>in. I am looking for examples of field trips you have led, either at 
>your site or to local natural areas, that focused on exploring 
>nature and/or collecting citizen science data. Specifically, where 
>did you go, what did you do there, how was the trip funded (and 
>anything else you think might be useful). Even a brief description 
>could be useful in providing as wide a variety of examples as 
>possible.
>
>Also, if you'd be willing to share links to materials you use to 
>guide visitors through a visit to your site, send those along, too!
>
>Any feedback you can send me 
>([log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>) by Wednesday, July 6 
>will be very much appreciated-and will hopefully help us to empower 
>more teachers to give their students field experiences!
>
>Many thanks,
>Anne Rosenberg
>
>Anne James Rosenberg
>Youth Education Coordinator
>Cornell Lab of Ornithology
>159 Sapsucker Woods Rd.
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>607/254-2109
>birds.cornell.edu/education
>

-- 
Karen Reeds, PhD, FLS 
Visiting Scholar, History and Sociology of Science, University of Pennsylvania
Princeton Research Forum http://www.princetonresearchforum.org/
Guest Curator, Come into a New World: Linnaeus & America Exhibition,
American Swedish Historical Museum, Philadelphia, 2007
New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ 2008
http://www.americanswedish.org/linnaeus.htm
Exhibition guide available from 
http://www.dianepublishing.net/category_s/490.htm (p.4)

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