LEWISVILLE ISD ENVIRONMENTAL LEARNING lisdola@lisd.net

LEWISVILLE ISD ENVIRONMENTAL LEARNING

lisdola@lisd.net

STATE STANDARDS

COME ALIVE IN

CLASSROOMS WITHOUT WALLS

GUIDING PRINCIPLESLISD CLASSROOM TEACHERS’

ONSITE TEACHING DURING ALL OUTDOOR PROGRAMMING IS

CRUCIAL

UTILIZE LOCAL RESOURCES FOR SUSTAINABLE EXPERIENCES

INVOLVE THE COMMUNITY

Learning Continuum-ALL campuses participate

Additional LISD grade levels and groups as requested (for example: Summer School, PreK, Kinder, High School)

LISDOLA is a Work-Based Learning Site for the 18-22 age LISD SpEd adults

DISTRICT PROGRAM SUPPORT

PRIMARY GRADES AT LISDOLA

(Lewisville ISD Outdoor Learning

Area)

GRADE 4 AT

LISDOLA

GRADE 5 AT BRIARWOOD

RETREAT CENTER ,

ARGYLE, TX

GRADE 7 AT LAERF,

LLELA, & RITTER

CEMETERY LEWISVILLE,

TX

GRADE 1 ACTIVITIES IN THE SPRING Trees, Beavers, Interpretive Woods Walk, Spider Web, Animal Tracks, Insect Collecting, Forest Floor Critters, River ModelGRADE 2 ACTIVITIES IN THE

SPRING Interpretive Hike, Deer R Here, Bessbeetles, Insect Collecting, Early Community, Life Cycles, Who Am I?(animal characteristics), River Model, Age in Tree Years, Day and Night in the Forest

LISDOLALEWISVILLE ISD OUTDOOR LEARNING AREA

GRADE 4 ACTIVITIES IN THE FALL SEMESTER Skulls & Scat, Energy in Action (STEM), Earthworms, Pond Organisms, Grasshoppers, Life in an Early Community, Soil Study(STEM), Exploring Animal Coverings, Roots, Watershed Conservation, McWhorter Creek Fossils

LISDOLALEWISVILLE ISD OUTDOOR LEARNING AREA

LISDOLA’s RiverWatershedModel

Click for learning in action video

WHY WAS THE MODEL CONSTRUCTED?TO PROVIDE AN INTERACTIVE OUTDOOR

EXPERIENCE FOR LARGE GROUPS TO MAKE WATER RESOURCES AND

CONSERVATION INFORMATION ACCESSIBLE TO MULTI-AGE GROUPS

WHERE DO STUDENTS USE THIS MODEL?AT LISDOLA WHICH IS AN ABBREVIATION

FOR LEWISVILLE ISD OUTDOOR LEARNING AREA

MORE THAN JUST A WALK IN THE WOODS

APPLYING KNOWLEDGE > SOIL EROSION & CIVIL ENGINEERING

ANALYZING & COMPARING > WATERSHED MODEL

OBSERVING and INVESTIGATING > ENERGY RESOURCES AREA

LISDOLA Student Scientists

Elm Fork Chapter Master

Naturalists

Eagle Scouts

SpEd Work-Based

Learning Groups

Community Members

LISDOLA . . . Doing More with enthusiastic volunteers!

FOOD FOR GROWTH & ENERGY TRAIL

Photosynthesis, soil nutrients/soil testing, decomposition

FOREST ECOSYSTEM

Owl pellet dissection, habitats/niches, plant & animal

adaptations

SOIL & WEATHER

W-E-D, soil & weather data collections, analysis of interactions

of soil & weather

Outdoor School Grade 5 at Briarwood Retreat Center, Argyle, TX

WASTEWATER TREATMENT TRAIL

Filter inquiry investigation, current wastewater practices, onsite

wastewater treatment

WATER IN OUR WORLD TRAIL

Energy of moving water, watersheds, aquatic ecosystem/pond data collection

More Outdoor School Grade 5

Grade 7 Field ExperienceOn trails students make connections . . . classroom concepts & natural phenomenon

EARLY COMMUNITIESanalyze census data, explore local Ritter Cemetery

PONDnative species & non-native species pond water data collection, macro-invertebrate sorting, analysis

TRAILtropisms, succession, adaptations, dichotomous key tree id, habitats, erosion

TECH INTEGRATIONS on trails

VIRTUAL NATURALIST

DATA COLLECTING TOOLS

HIGH SCHOOL

PRACTICUM IN ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN--LISDOLA site for student designed semester projects

Summer for-credit internship for LISD student mentored by Lewisville Aquatic Ecosystem Research Facility and supervised by LISDOLA

CLASSROOM

REAL-WORLD

EXPERIENCES

GIVE MEANING TO CLASSROOM LEARNING

CONCEPTS PUT INTO LARGER, MORE VARIED CONTEXT

IN-DEPTH INTERACTIONS BETWEEN TEACHERS & STUDENTS

ENCOURAGES COLLABORATIVE ANALYSIS & RESEARCH

ESTABLISHES A LEARNING FRAMEWORK

WHY WE DO T HIS . . .

LEWISVILLE ISD ENVIRONMENTAL LEARNING

FOLLOW

CONTACT Suzanne Barnard for more information or to schedule a visit

lisdola@lisd.net