The Lawrence Hall of Science
The public science center of the University of California, Berkeley.
Open Daily 10:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m. Animal Discovery Zone 11:00 a.m.–4:00 p.m.
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We partner with school districts to support science learning. We offer district-wide elementary, middle, and high school programs, either virtually or in-person.
We collaborate with a range of partners to innovate in science education. Together, we go further.
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A guide to how student and nature-centered teaching approaches offer opportunities for the development of Social Emotional Learning competencies.
Tara Fuad shares how BEETLES materials and approaches transformed teaching and learning at her site– and how changing program policies helped make it happen.
A summary of some of the opportunities and value of cultivating partnerships outdoor science education programs and school districts.
Sean Hill shares about Sierra Nevada Journeys’s approach to establishing a partnership and weekly outdoor education program with a local elementary school.
Heather Molloy describes a program that offered childcare and outdoor learning to children of Santa Cruz County school district employees during the pandemic.
How 12 environmental education nonprofits and two school districts in San Diego built a network focused on professional learning and relationship building.
Check out this article in Clearing by Kevin and Craig, introducing environmental educators to the BEETLES Project.
This brief shares impact results from the BEETLES project’s 2011-2015 Field Testing process.
This policy brief describes the importance of this field, the findings of our survey, and recommendations for mitigating the potentially devastating threats facing this field.
This brief investigates how a network of outdoor science programs has fared during the COVID-19 pandemic.
This study sought to explore how Environmental Educators of Color experience and are impacted by workplace culture, practices, and policies.
Drawing on our first-hand experiences, the goal of this brief is to bring awareness to the ways that white supremacy culture has shown up in the field of environmental education.
This resource helps you identify units in your curriculum that emphasize environmental concepts and add outdoor learning experiences to classroom routines.
Find out more about what you can do to be an advocate for science education and environmental literacy in your community!
Watch Craig Strang discuss how California is approaching the systemic implementation of environmental literacy into state-wide education systems. For more information, check out: https://ca-eli.org/.
This short summary offers context about the Next Generation Science Standards and opportunities for supporting NGSS-aligned instruction in outdoor science schools.
In this series of blogs, written in 2021, the BEETLES team heard many stories about how the environmental education community is adapting to the Covid pandemic.