Class Melds Students, Nature Together
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By Jose Pagliery, The Miami Herald Feb. 8--After 10 years wading through bureaucracy in the healthcare industry, Mario Yanez had had enough. He longed to separate himself from what he considered the dull business world and connect to a life outside of the city's concrete buildings.
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Sounds of salsa music filled an Oregon State University classroom Saturday morning as Jose Cedeno taught a group of students about his native Ecuador.
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By Avian Carrasquillo  acarrasquillo@@dailyherald.com  Teachers often hear about what students did on their summer vacation at the beginning of the year, but at Jack London Middle School in Wheeling this fall, the tables will turn.
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Maybe the science teachers at Broken Arrow Elementary School can teach a lesson on life being full of surprises.
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In a controversial social experiment, boys and girls go to school under the same roof but sit in separate classes.
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The mighty Mississippi isn't going to be confused with the Nile River anytime soon, and St. Louis certainly isn't rainforest country, but students from all over the world come to this city to study tropical ecology.
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By MIKE JOHNSON  Town of Merton - If you're a kid and it's a school day, there aren't too many better ways to spend the hours than splashing around in a lake, tromping through a swamp or hiking in a forest, all with the blessing of the principal and teachers.
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Pupils want their schools to use renewable energy sources and  rainwater resources, a survey finds.
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By Matt Paolelli Daily Herald Correspondent  For parents of middle-school and high-school students, it's an all-too-familiar scene.
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By Millar, Heather  It seems like such a tall order: Proactively plan human activities so that they mesh with the natural environment. Try to approach nature as a system, even though we don't now, and may never, fully understand all of its' complexities.
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To middle school teacher Chad Pavlekovich, most science textbooks are dull and lack the context students need to understand scientific principles. That's why he is exposing students in the town of Salisbury on Maryland's Eastern Shore to three new textbooks that are unorthodox in concept, appearance...
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By Matthew Daly  WASHINGTON - Students from New York to Alaska will be exploring forests and wetlands as part of an effort by the U.S. Forest Service to get kids out of the classroom and into the woods.
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While the world's top scientists recently warned governments to take urgent action on global warming, a small group of Brooklyn students have designed their own plan for living with climate change.
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Swarms of students have been led to "The Gates" to observe, to draw, to meditate Â and in many cases to pontificate Â on the meaning of art and nature.
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Lal Jose's Classmates, is a campus caper with a difference, mixing and matching numerous genres to tell the story.
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By BUFORD GREEN STAFF WRITER  JACKSONVILLE - Sheryl Humphries' love of science and teaching it has landed her among an elite group of educators.
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Pupils at four primary schools are being given the choice of starting lessons at different times of the day.