Making Community Connections
A Focus on Place-based Education:
Examples of successful community-school partnerships in New Hampshire with help from NHPLT:
Antrim Elementary School Receives Environmental Award
Bicentennial Elementary School Dedicates Outdoor Classroom
What can you do to bring place-based education to your classroom or community?
Attend one of PLT's workshops.
Consider a field trip to a local sawmill to learn about New Hampshire's historical and cultural connections to the forest .
Invite your county forester into your classroom.
Host a Walk in the Forest/Forest Field Day at your school.
Find out what public conservation lands are accessible to the schools in your community.
Contact your town's conservation commission about potential service learning projects in your community.
"Place-based education encourages teachers and students to use the school yard, community, public lands, and other special places as resources, turning communities into classrooms"
-The Place-based Education Evaluation Collaborative (PEEC).
One of NHPLT's goals is to foster working partnerships between educators and the forest-based businesses, natural resource professionals and other organizations in their communities in order to support place-based education. Many of our programs are designed with this in mind and often PLT serves as a catalyst for a chain of events which brings communities together for a common purpose. To read more about the importance of placed-based education, click here.