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LEWISVILLE ISD ENVIRONMENTAL LEARNING
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
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CONTACT Suzanne Barnard for more information or to schedule a visit