Reading the Landscape

Uncover the web of relationships among people, their communities, and their landscapes they inhabit as revealed through local stories. Learn how to create place-based curriculum and anchor experiences to community resources amidst the regional landscapes of the Pacific Northwest. Discover the unique contributions to curriculum design offered by local museums, historical societies, and citizen organizations. Experience inquiry that demonstarates how the concept of a watershed integrates subjects.

Instructor: Sue McWilliams

Dates and Times: July 21, 1-5 p.m., July 22, 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m., and July 23, 8:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.

Location:Deschutes Historical Center, 19 NW Idaho Ave, Bend, OR
Students must make thier own overnight accommadations in Bend.

Non credit or CEU/PDU: 30 hours, $500

Continuing Education credit: CESI/CESS 866, 2 semester hours, $700

Degree-applicable Credit: CORE/SCI/SS 615, 1 or 2 semester hours, $1,154

Course fee: additional $90

Registration Form (pdf)

Additional Information

The instructor, formerly an educator at the High Desert Museum with expertise in watershed education, would like to extend the marketing of this course to teachers interested in a science education elective.

This class has been proposed as an offering within the newly inaugurated PrISM certificate program (Preparation for Instruction in Science and Mathematics, a 7 university Oregon consortium funded by FIPSE). The aim of PrISM is to increase the capacity of Oregon K-8 teachers in science and mathematics instruction. PrISM offers a wide variety of intensive classes, summer institutes, and on-line (distance) learning opportunities state-wide. Courses are categorized as introductor, content-focused, integrative, or capstone and demonstrate one or more of the following themes: sense of place, math-science integration, multiple literacies, and science/math across the curriculum. "Reading the Landscape," with added emphasis on the environmental science topic of the "watershed," will become an exemplar of these themes and therefore add to lewis & Clark's viability as one of the 7 home PrISM institutions.

PrISM courses are expected to be 2 sememster credits in order to simplify planning and adding to 12 semester hours in order to earn the certificate regradless of which institution's courses are selected. Variable credit allows LC CORE students seeking only 1 credit to choose CORE 615 while appealing to PrISM students and SCI MATs seeking an elective to earn 2 credits.