Place-based Learning: instilling a sense of wonder.

Authors

Jeanne L. Surface, University of Nebraska at OmahaFollow

Document Type

Article

Abstract

Place-based learning is powerful. It can be implemented in rural, suburban and urban school districts as well as universities. Contextualizing learning with the students lived experiences will increase student achievement and in the words of Rachel Carson, create “a sense of wonder so indestructible that it would last throughout life (2011).”