August 16, 2019 at 4:00 pm (Highlights)
Tags: CBEdu, Community Based Education, Community Development, Experiential Learning, Lifelong Learning, Personalized Learning, place-based education, Placemaking, self-directed learning, Sense of Place
Community-Based Education Highlights
for Western Massachusetts
Folk Traditions ♦ Rural Heritage ♦ New England Heritage ♦ Agricultural History ♦ Textiles ♦ Agricultural Fair ♦ 4-H ♦ Sustainable Living ♦ Art Studies ♦ Teen Art ♦ Installation Art ♦ Van Gogh ♦ Social Movements ♦ Picture Book Art ♦ Glass Art ♦ Music Studies ♦ Shape Note Singing ♦ Symphony ♦ A Cappella ♦ Classical Music ♦ Community Concert ♦ Lawn Concert ♦ Dance Studies ♦ Contemporary Dance ♦ Folklore ♦ Theater Studies ♦ Shakespeare ♦ Outdoor Performance ♦ Fairies ♦ Starfish ♦ Rabbits ♦ Beavers ♦ Amphibians ♦ Geology ♦ Astronomy ♦ STEM ♦ Computer Coding ♦ Architecture ♦ Economics ♦ Culinary Design ♦ Community Meal ♦ Tea Time ♦ Blueberries ♦ Peaches ♦ Harvest Supper ♦ Creative Free-Play ♦ Paranormal ♦ Roller Derby ♦ Tai Chi & Aikido ♦
These are just a few of the community-based education (CBEdu) highlights we featured this week in our eNewsletter for the week, Aug 17-23, 2019. Click through, peruse our list, and make plans to get out into your community and learn while you play! ♥ Want to have our highlights and spotlights delivered to your inbox every Thursday? Click here to subscribe!
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August 9, 2019 at 4:00 pm (Highlights)
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Community-Based Education Highlights
for Western Massachusetts
New England Heritage ♦ Agriculture History ♦ Agricultural Fairs ♦ Rural Heritage ♦ Farmers’Market ♦ Country Fair ♦ Apple Orchard ♦ Book Sale ♦ Downtown Celebration ♦ Lawn Concert ♦ Zoology ♦ Mammals ♦ Bats ♦ Beavers ♦ Religious Studies ♦ Kirtan ♦ Folk Traditions ♦ Bike Repair ♦ Theater ♦ Shakespeare ♦ Hansel & Gretel ♦ Mother Goose ♦ Art Studies ♦ Chinese Painting ♦ Van Gogh ♦ Picture Book Art ♦ Social Movements ♦ Reading To Dogs ♦ Literacy ♦ Literary Studies ♦ Music Studies ♦ Music Festival ♦ Symphony ♦ Classical ♦ Contemporary Dance ♦ Placemaking ♦ Collaborative Consumption ♦ Sustainability ♦ Skillshare ♦ Creative Free-Play ♦ Commerce ♦ Architecture ♦ Aviation ♦ STEM ♦ Physics ♦ Yo-Yo ♦ Natural History ♦ Astronomy ♦ Planetarium ♦ Meteor Shower ♦ Constellations ♦ Sturgeon Moon
These are just a few of the community-based education (CBEdu) highlights we featured this week in our eNewsletter for the week, Aug 10-16, 2019. Click through, peruse our list, and make plans to get out into your community and learn while you play! ♥ Want to have our highlights and spotlights delivered to your inbox every Thursday? Click here to subscribe!
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August 2, 2019 at 4:00 pm (Highlights)
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Community-Based Education Highlights
for Western Massachusetts
Revolutionary War ♦ Agricultural History ♦ Native American Heritage ♦ Shaker Foodways ♦ British Culture ♦ Blacksmithing ♦ Qi Gong ♦ Contemporary Dance ♦ Music Studies ♦ Musical Instruments ♦ Music Performance ♦ Classical Music ♦ Lawn Concert ♦ Outdoor Film ♦ Theater Studies ♦ Immersive Theater ♦ Fairy Tale ♦ Folk Stories ♦ Literature in Translation ♦ Nutritional Anthropology ♦ Cider Pairing ♦ Tea Time ♦ Lobster ♦ Marine Biology ♦ Beavers ♦ Owls ♦ Native Species ♦ Astronomy ♦ Economics ♦ Urban Ecology ♦ Rowing ♦ Helicopter ♦ Bike Repair ♦ Magic ♦ Paranormal ♦ Renaissance Fair ♦ Native American Festival ♦ Skillsharing ♦ Folk Traditions ♦ Community Meal ♦ Intergenerational ♦ Creative Free-Play ♦ Placemaking ♦ Commercial Free
These are just a few of the community-based education (CBEdu) highlights we featured this week in our eNewsletter for the week, Aug 3-9, 2019. Click through, peruse our list, and make plans to get out into your community and learn while you play! ♥ Want to have our highlights and spotlights delivered to your inbox every Thursday? Click here to subscribe!
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July 26, 2019 at 4:00 pm (Highlights, Hilltown Families)
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Community-Based Education Highlights
for Western Massachusetts
Folk Traditions ♦ Skillsharing ♦ Preserving Fruit ♦ Pottery ♦ Farming ♦ Textile Arts ♦ Agricultural History ♦ Local History ♦ Transportation History ♦ Aviation ♦ Buckland ♦ Deerfield ♦ Springfield ♦ Middle Ages ♦ Renaissance Fair ♦ Gather In Festival ♦ Block Party ♦ Art Walk ♦ Music Festival ♦ Family Outdoor Concert ♦ Lawn Concert ♦ Jazz ♦ Klezmer Music ♦ Musical Instruments ♦ Botany ♦ Ecology ♦ Ferns ♦ Birds ♦ Native Species ♦ Stargazing ♦ Solar System ♦ Theater Studies ♦ Autobiographical ♦ Musical ♦ Youth Theater ♦ Clowning ♦ Puppet Theater ♦ Marionettes ♦ Ghosts ♦ Literature in Translation ♦ Contemporary Dance ♦ Reading to Dogs ♦ Canoeing ♦ Labyrinth ♦ Skateboarding ♦ Baseball ♦ Motorcycles ♦ Jets ♦ Chess ♦ Knitting
These are just a few of the community-based education (CBEdu) highlights we featured this week in our eNewsletter for the week, July 27-Aug 2, 2019. Click through, peruse our list, and make plans to get out into your community and learn while you play! ♥ Want to have our highlights and spotlights delivered to your inbox every Thursday? Click here to subscribe!
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July 19, 2019 at 4:00 pm (Highlights)
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Community-Based Education Highlights
for Western Massachusetts
Outdoor Adventures ♦ Waterways ♦ Canoeing ♦ Stargazing ♦ Mountain Hike ♦ Boat Cruise ♦ Baseball ♦ Cultural Studies ♦ Scottish ♦ Shaker ♦ Rural Living ♦ Indigenous Heritage ♦ 60s Pop Culture ♦ Folk Traditions ♦ Canning ♦ Emily Dickinson ♦ Edith Wharton ♦ Mary Poppins ♦ Storytelling ♦ Ice Cream Social ♦ Tea Party ♦ Blueberry Pie ♦ Local History ♦ Colonial History ♦ Living History ♦ Agriculture ♦ Canals ♦ Astronomy ♦ Aviation ♦ Jets ♦ Pollinators ♦ Moths ♦ Native Species ♦ Wildlife ♦ Beavers ♦ Stars ♦ Ornithology ♦ Ecology ♦ Marine Biology ♦ Zoology ♦ Entomology ♦ Rivers ♦ Family Performance ♦ Theater Studies ♦ Experiential Theater ♦ Family Theater ♦ Youth Theater ♦ Musical ♦ Improv ♦ Shakespeare ♦ Contemporary Dance ♦ Music Studies ♦ Lawn Concert ♦ Klezmer
These are just a few of the community-based education (CBEdu) highlights we featured this week in our eNewsletter for the week, July 20-26, 2019. Click through, peruse our list, and make plans to get out into your community and learn while you play! ♥ Want to have our highlights and spotlights delivered to your inbox every Thursday? Click here to subscribe!
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July 12, 2019 at 4:00 pm (Highlights)
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Community-Based Education Highlights
for Western Massachusetts
Folk Traditions ♦ Fruit Preserves ♦ Shaker Gardening ♦ Masonry ♦ Music Festival ♦ Town Fair ♦ Beach Party ♦ Community Picnic ♦ Outdoor Film ♦ Nature-Based Learning ♦ Zoology ♦ Entomology ♦ Ornithology ♦ Ecology ♦ Geology ♦ Cosmology ♦ Daytime Canoeing ♦ Evening Paddle ♦ Moonlight Canoeing ♦ Guided Hiking ♦ Beavers ♦ Dragonflies ♦ Native Species ♦ Wetlands ♦ Waterways ♦ Aviation ♦ Lunar Landing ♦ Solar System ♦ Theater Studies ♦ Musical ♦ Biographical Theater ♦ Immersive Theater ♦ Dance Studies ♦ Contemporary Dance ♦ Music Studies ♦ Swing Music ♦ Lawn Concert ♦ Drumming ♦ Kirtan ♦ Religious Studies ♦ Shaker ♦ Local History ♦ Agriculture ♦ 4-H ♦ Literary Studies ♦ Storytelling ♦ Reading to Dogs ♦ Summer Playgroup ♦ Baseball ♦ Postcards ♦ Magic
These are just a few of the community-based education (CBEdu) highlights we featured this week in our eNewsletter for the week, July 13-19, 2019. Click through, peruse our list, and make plans to get out into your community and learn while you play! ♥ Want to have our highlights and spotlights delivered to your inbox every Thursday? Click here to subscribe!
Learn Local. Play Local. is supported in part by a grant from the Agawam, Buckland, Deerfield, Gill, Hadley, New Salem, Plainfield, Shelburne Southampton, Tolland, and Westhampton Cultural Councils, local agencies that are supported by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state agency.
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July 5, 2019 at 4:00 am (Highlights)
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Community-Based Education Highlights
for Western Massachusetts
Literature In Translation ♦ Literary Studies ♦ Storytime ♦ Butterflies ♦ Beekeeping ♦ Bird Watching ♦ Geology ♦ Natural History ♦ Marine Biology ♦ Biodiversity ♦ Pond Ecology ♦ Zoology ♦ Ornithology ♦ Mycology ♦ Ecology ♦ Invasive Species ♦ Apiculturists ♦ Service-Based Learning ♦ Wild Edibles ♦ Gardening ♦ Canoeing ♦ Evening Paddle ♦ Guided Hike ♦ Aerodynamics ♦ Aviation History ♦ Local History ♦ Frederick Douglass ♦ Shakers ♦ Dance Studies ♦ Religion Studies ♦ Nutritional Anthropology ♦ Ice Cream ♦ Tea Time ♦ Picnic ♦ Social Issues ♦ Lawn Concert ♦ Outdoor Film ♦
Music Festival ♦ Folk Songs ♦ Musical ♦ Fairy Tale ♦ Black Comedy ♦ Family Comedy ♦ Circus Arts ♦ Contemporary Dance ♦ Aquarium ♦ Museum Adventures ♦ Library ♦ Watershed
These are just a few of the community-based education (CBEdu) highlights we featured this week in our eNewsletter for the week, July 6-12, 2019. Click through, peruse our list, and make plans to get out into your community and learn while you play! ♥ Want to have our highlights and spotlights delivered to your inbox every Thursday? Click here to subscribe!
Learn Local. Play Local. is supported in part by a grant from the Agawam, Buckland, Deerfield, Gill, Hadley, New Salem, Plainfield, Shelburne Southampton, Tolland, and Westhampton Cultural Councils, local agencies that are supported by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state agency.
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June 28, 2019 at 4:00 pm (Highlights, Hilltown Families)
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Community-Based Education Highlights
for Western Massachusetts
Summer Reading ♦ Literary Studies ♦ Literature In Translation ♦ Reading To Dogs ♦ Farm Animals ♦ Native Species ♦ Watershed ♦ Ornithology ♦ Nature-Based Learning ♦ Lavender Festival ♦ Garden Tour ♦ Manufacturing History ♦ Textile History ♦ Living History ♦ New England History ♦ Aviation History ♦ Solar System ♦ Star Gazing ♦ Dinner Theater ♦ Musical ♦ Play ♦ Fairy Tale ♦ Mary Poppins ♦ Into The Woods ♦ Guided Hike ♦ Zoology ♦ Family Concert ♦ Creative Free-Play ♦ Playgroup ♦ Baseball ♦ Fireworks ♦ 4th of July ♦ Parades ♦ Food Justice
These are just a few of the community-based education (CBEdu) highlights we featured this week in our eNewsletter for the week, June 29-July 5, 2019. Click through, peruse our list, and make plans to get out into your community and learn while you play! ♥ Want to have our highlights and spotlights delivered to your inbox every Thursday? Click here to subscribe!
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June 21, 2019 at 4:00 pm (Highlights)
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Community-Based Education Highlights
for Western Massachusetts
Wild Foods ♦ Astronomy ♦ Aviation ♦ Transportation ♦ STEM ♦ Collaborative Consumption ♦ Open Studio Tour ♦ State Parks ♦ Community Picnic ♦ Lavender Festival ♦ Labyrinth ♦ Naturalist Program ♦ Civic Organizations ♦ Local History ♦ Colonial History ♦ Nautical History ♦ Summits ♦ Zines ♦ Picture Book Arts ♦ Literary Studies ♦ Art Supplies ♦ Fireworks ♦ Baseball ♦ Theater Studies ♦ Podcasting ♦ Musical ♦ Literature In Translation ♦ Lawn Concert ♦ Geology ♦ Interpretive Walk ♦ Ornithology ♦ Entomology ♦ Spiders ♦ Fireflies ♦ Goats ♦ Pigs ♦ Cows ♦ Beavers ♦ Magic
These are just a few of the community-based education (CBEdu) highlights we featured this week in our eNewsletter for the week, June 22-28, 2019. Click through, peruse our list, and make plans to get out into your community and learn while you play! ♥ Want to have our highlights and spotlights delivered to your inbox every Thursday? Click here to subscribe!
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June 14, 2019 at 4:00 pm (Highlights)
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June 7, 2019 at 6:00 pm (Highlights)
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May 31, 2019 at 6:00 pm (Hilltown Families)
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Community-Based Education Highlights
for Western Massachusetts
Occupations ♦ Ranger ♦ Naturalist ♦ Asparagus ♦ Community Meal ♦ Food Festival ♦ Agriculture ♦ Oenology ♦ Farmers’ Market ♦ Pancake Breakfast ♦ Collaborative Consumption ♦ Placemaking ♦ Block Party ♦ Lawn Concert ♦ Marine Biology ♦ Beginning Naturalist ♦ Vernal Pools ♦ Wild Edibles ♦ Herbal Gardens ♦ Herbal Medicine ♦ Farm Animals ♦ Bird Watching ♦ Goats ♦ Pigs ♦ Butterflies ♦ Pollinators ♦ Scenic Byways ♦ Hike ♦ Bike Safety ♦ Summer Playgroup ♦ Storytime ♦ Lifelong Learning ♦ Toddlers ♦ Architecture ♦ Living History ♦ Local History ♦ Militia History ♦ Medieval Studies ♦ 19th-Century Dance ♦ Haitian Dance ♦ Circus Music ♦ Ukulele ♦ Yo Yos ♦ Angling ♦ Entomology ♦ Ornithology ♦ Geology ♦ PictureBooks ♦ Literature in Translation ♦ Writing Contest ♦ Poetry ♦ Open Mic ♦ Art Studies ♦ Contemporary Art ♦ Figure Drawing
These are just a few of the community-based learning highlights we featured this week in our eNewsletter for the week, June 1-7, 2019. Click through, peruse our list, and make plans to get out into your community and learn while you play! ♥ Want to have our highlights and spotlights delivered to your inbox every Thursday? Click here to subscribe!
Learn Local. Play Local. is supported in part by a grant from the Agawam, Buckland, Deerfield, Gill, Hadley, New Salem, Plainfield, Shelburne Southampton, Tolland, and Westhampton Cultural Councils, local agencies that are supported by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state agency.
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May 25, 2019 at 6:00 am (Hilltown Families)
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Community-Based Education Highlights
for Western Massachusetts
Falcons ♦ Bird Houses ♦ Art Festival ♦ Sheep & Woolcraft ♦ WoolHistory ♦ Herbalism ♦ FiberArt ♦ Textile History ♦ Local History ♦ Medieval Studies ♦ Food Trucks ♦ Nutritional Anthropology ♦ Farmers’ Markets ♦ Farm Adventures ♦ Farm Tour ♦ Comic Books ♦ Picture Book Arts ♦ Botanical Illustration ♦ Book Design ♦ STEM ♦ Physics ♦ YoYo School ♦ Marine Biology ♦ Geology ♦ Dendrology ♦ Labyrinth ♦ Placemaking ♦ Lawn Concert ♦ Scavenger Hunt ♦ Nature-Based Learning ♦ Waterfalls ♦ Walt Whitman ♦ Sojourner Truth ♦ Cemetery Tour ♦ Night Hike ♦ Ecology
These are just a few of the community-based learning highlights we featured this week in our eNewsletter for the week, May 25-31, 2019. Click through, peruse our list, and make plans to get out into your community and learn while you play! ♥ Want to have our highlights and spotlights delivered to your inbox every Thursday? Click here to subscribe!
Learn Local. Play Local. is supported in part by a grant from the Agawam, Buckland, Deerfield, Gill, Hadley, New Salem, Plainfield, Shelburne Southampton, Tolland, and Westhampton Cultural Councils, local agencies that are supported by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state agency.
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May 18, 2019 at 6:00 am (Hilltown Families)
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Community-Based Education Highlights
for Western Massachusetts
STE(A)M ♦ Robotics ♦ Picture Book Arts ♦ Graphic Novels ♦ Zines ♦ Literature in Translation ♦ Library Adventures ♦ Poetry Walk ♦ Bird Walk ♦ Guided Hike ♦ Scavenger Hunt ♦ Natural History ♦ Rivers ♦ Volcanos ♦ Wild Flowers ♦ Plant Sale ♦ Horticulture ♦ Ecology ♦ Botany ♦ Mycology ♦ Wild Edibles ♦ CulinaryArts ♦ Cheese Making ♦ Mushrooms ♦ Native American History ♦ LocalHistory ♦ Russian History ♦ Living History ♦ Walking Tour ♦ Guided Tour ♦ Historic Homes ♦ Architecture ♦ Industrial History ♦ Horology ♦ Civics ♦ Entrepreneurship ♦ Transportation ♦ Trains ♦ Placemaking ♦ Experiential Learning ♦ Podcasting ♦ Musical ♦ Improv ♦ Play Reading ♦ Comedy ♦ Youth Circus ♦ Family Music ♦ Lawn Concert ♦ Baby Sign Language ♦ Parent Cafe ♦ Buddhism ♦ Mindfulness
These are just a few of the community-based learning highlights we featured this week in our eNewsletter for the week, May 18-24, 2019. Click through, peruse our list, and make plans to get out into your community and learn while you play! ♥ Want to have our highlights and spotlights delivered to your inbox every Thursday? Click here to subscribe!
Learn Local. Play Local. is supported in part by a grant from the Agawam, Buckland, Deerfield, Gill, Hadley, New Salem, Plainfield, Shelburne Southampton, Tolland, and Westhampton Cultural Councils, local agencies that are supported by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state agency.
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May 11, 2019 at 6:00 am (Hilltown Families)
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Community-Based Education Highlights
for Western Massachusetts
Mother’s Day ♦ Pancake Breakfast ♦ Tea Time ♦ Food History ♦ Community Meal ♦ Collaborative Consumption ♦ Sustainability ♦ Solar Energy ♦ Living Building ♦ Nature-Based Learning ♦ Experiential Learning ♦ Craft Fair ♦ Knitting ♦ Plant Sale ♦ Teen Gardening ♦ Wildflowers ♦ Dendrology ♦ Ornithology ♦ Bird Houses ♦ Ichthyology ♦ Paleontology ♦ Entomology ♦ Lady Bugs ♦ Beekeeping ♦ Fish Migration ♦ Dinosaurs ♦ Astronomy ♦ Cosmology ♦ Blacksmithing ♦ Cemetery ♦ Russian History ♦ Iranian Cinema ♦ Film Studies ♦ Art Skills ♦ Printmaking ♦ Art Studies ♦ Van Gogh ♦ Chorus ♦ Community Sing ♦ Parenting Workshop ♦ Mental Health ♦ Nutrition
These are just a few of the community-based learning highlights we featured this week in our eNewsletter for the week, May 11-17, 2019. Click through, peruse our list, and make plans to get out into your community and learn while you play! ♥ Want to have our highlights and spotlights delivered to your inbox every Thursday? Click here to subscribe!
Learn Local. Play Local. is supported in part by a grant from the Agawam, Buckland, Deerfield, Gill, Hadley, New Salem, Plainfield, Shelburne Southampton, Tolland, and Westhampton Cultural Councils, local agencies that are supported by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state agency.
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May 5, 2019 at 2:00 pm (Hilltown Families)
Tags: Bird Cam, collaborative consumption, Conscious Parenting, entomology, Experiential Learning, Food Security, Growth Mindset, Nature Based Learning, nature-deficit disorder, Ornithology, Picture Books
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May 4, 2019 at 6:00 am (Hilltown Families)
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Community-Based Education Highlights
for Western Massachusetts
Bird Walk ♦ Bird Banding ♦ Bird Festival ♦ Family Festival ♦ Parents’ Night Out ♦ Divinity ♦ Architecture ♦ Local History ♦ Labor History ♦ Silk History ♦ Women’s Suffrage ♦ Rosie Revere ♦ Girls Gardening ♦ Plant Sale ♦ Soil Science ♦ Electric Cars ♦ Natural History ♦ Phenology ♦ Mycology ♦ Botany ♦ Forest Bathing ♦ Wild Flowers ♦ Volunteering ♦ Town Clean-Up ♦ LGBTQ ♦ NAACP ♦ ADHD ♦ STEM ♦ Food Security ♦ Literature in Translation ♦ Picture Book Art ♦ Comics ♦ Museum Adventures ♦ The Clark ♦ Woodstock ♦ Double Edge Theatre ♦ Basket Weaving ♦ Tie-Dye ♦ Textiles ♦ Star Wars ♦ Harry Potter
These are just a few of the community-based learning highlights we featured this week in our eNewsletter for the week, May 4-10, 2019. Click through, peruse our list, and make plans to get out into your community and learn while you play! ♥ Want to have our highlights and spotlights delivered to your inbox every Thursday? Click here to subscribe! Read the rest of this entry »
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April 27, 2019 at 8:00 am (Hilltown Families)
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Community-Based Education Highlights
for Western Massachusetts
Placemaking ♦ Sustainability Festival ♦ Creative Free Play ♦ Park Clean Up ♦ Volunteering ♦ Walking Meditation ♦ Mindful Meditation ♦ Activism ♦ Skillsharing ♦ Food Studies ♦ Community Seder ♦ Chocolate ♦ Botany ♦ Wildflowers ♦ Arbor Day ♦ Evolution ♦ Knitting ♦ Textiles ♦ Sheep Shearing ♦ Ornithology ♦ Bird Walk ♦ Entomology ♦ Herpetology ♦ Frogs ♦ Salamanders ♦ Mason Bees ♦ American Woodcock ♦ Collaborative Consumption ♦ Crafting ♦ Art Supplies ♦ Second Hand Sale ♦ Museum Adventures ♦ Library Adventures ♦ Art Studies ♦ Musical ♦ Youth Theater ♦ Shakespeare ♦ Mister Rogers ♦ Industry ♦ Law ♦ Government ♦ Local History ♦ Industrial History ♦ Architecture ♦ Music Studies ♦ Folk Music ♦ Drumming ♦ West African Music ♦ Irish Music ♦ Storysongs ♦ Poetry Cafe ♦ Parenting Workshop ♦ Early Childhood ♦ Social Media ♦ First Aid
These are just a few of the community-based learning highlights we featured this week in our eNewsletter for the wook, April 27-May 3, 2019. Click through, peruse our list, and make plans to get out into your community and learn while you play! ♥ Want to have our highlights and spotlights delivered to your inbox every Thursday? Click here to subscribe!
Learn Local. Play Local. is supported in part by a grant from the Agawam, Buckland, Deerfield, Gill, Hadley, New Salem, Plainfield, Shelburne Southampton, Tolland, and Westhampton Cultural Councils, local agencies that are supported by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state agency.
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April 20, 2019 at 6:00 am (Hilltown Families)
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April 13, 2019 at 6:00 am (Hilltown Families)
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April 6, 2019 at 6:00 am (Hilltown Families)
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March 30, 2019 at 6:00 am (Highlights, Hilltown Families)
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March 23, 2019 at 6:00 am (Hilltown Families)
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March 16, 2019 at 6:00 am (Highlights, Hilltown Families)
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February 15, 2019 at 9:00 am (Hilltown Families)
Tags: Community Based Education, Community Development, Experiential Learning, Lifelong Learning, Mindful Engagement, place-based learning, Placemaking, self-directed learning
Tracking to Photography. Braille to Pop Icons. Creative-Free Play to Collaborative Consumption. These are just a few of the community-based learning highlights we’re featuring this week. Peruse our list below and make plans to get out into your community and learn while you play!
Featured seasonal highlight this week: Presidents’ Day celebrates the life and work of George Washington. It comes every year on the third Monday of February. Presidents’ Day is a chance to explore the tenets of democracy and civil freedoms. Throughout the January/February Seasons edition of Learning Ahead, the power of voice is a strong and present theme. Democracy, as FDR emphasizes in his four freedoms speech, rests on the freedom of speech, the ability to voice your thoughts and speak your mind. At the heart of the freedom of speech and expression is the freedom to use words, story, narrative, and voice to share ideas. Some of the greatest literature has been used as a vehicle to voice an ethical philosophy or to act on behalf of social justice. The shared dialogue between author and reader through the written word also depends on the freedom to read. Literature and the power of voice is a shared exchange in which ideas are spoken or written to be heard and read. ♦ Download our Jan/Feb edition of Learning Ahead: Cultural Itinerary for Western Massachusetts for embedded learning opportunities found in cultural resources that exist within the geography, history, and cultural traditions of Western Massachusetts that support learning through the lens of Presidents’ Day.
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February 8, 2019 at 9:00 am (Highlights, Hilltown Families)
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Creative-free play to living history. Pilobolus to Shakespeare. Comics to pastels. These are just a few of the community-based learning highlights we’re featuring this week. Peruse our list and make plans to get out into your community and learn while you play!
Featured seasonal highlight this week:
Valentine’s Day is next week, so think about this… How has the Valentine card industry changed over the years? In addition to participating in the Hilltown Families annual Handmade Valentine Swap, what are other non-commercial ways you can celebrate Valentine’s Day with friends and neighbors? How can the giving of a handmade valentine be an expression of kindness? When was the last time you sat down to write a letter on paper? Where did that paper come from? How did the manufacturing of that paper impact the community and environment from which it originated? Did you know… The American valentine industry was started during the mid-19th century by Esther Howland, an Mt. Holyoke graduate, and Worcester native? Through her father’s paper company, she sold her first valentines in 1848 and within a few years was able to begin her own business, the New England Valentine Company. ♦ Download our Jan/Feb edition of Learning Ahead: Cultural Itinerary for Western Massachusetts for embedded learning opportunities found in cultural resources that exist within the geography, history, and cultural traditions of Western Massachusetts that support learning through the lens of Valentine’s Day.
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May 25, 2016 at 2:00 pm (Hampshire County, Hilltown Families, Suggested Activity)
Tags: Animal Husbandry, Experiential Learning, Fiber Arts, Knitting, Sheep, textiles, Wool
Annual Sheep and Woolcraft Fair Connects Visitors with Local History, Animal Husbandry, and Fiber Art
Want to learn how to dye wool with Kool-Aid or make a needle-felted fairy? Perhaps you’ve never seen sheep dogs in action or can’t tell a Cotswold from a Corriedale? Indulge your curiosities by attending the annual Massachusetts Sheep and Woolcraft Fair this Memorial Day weekend!
You may sing your children songs about them and count them when you’re falling asleep, but did you know about sheep’s important role in our history and everyday lives? The first viable flock of domesticated sheep arrived in the colonies in 1609, and shortly thereafter a small but strong wool industry was up and running. Landowners built stone walls to corral their flocks (you probably have come across these in your wanderings!) and colonists even cleared the islands of Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket so they could be used for sheep storage. The colonies were so successful in their maintenance of flocks and production of wool that the British government eventually banned colonial wool exports to lessen competition with their own wool markets. This act was one of several that incensed colonists and led to the Revolutionary War. Sheep playing a role in our fight for independence? Absolutely! Read the rest of this entry »
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April 26, 2016 at 12:00 pm (Hilltown Families)
Tags: community-based education, Experiential Learning, Homesteading
S.T.E.M. and Homesteading for All Ages
2016 H.A.Y. Conference
There are many reasons to want to get involved in the homesteading movement, a trend towards self-reliance in daily living. It can be empowering to learn how to produce your own food, clothing, or other products you use on a daily basis. You might be motivated because you want to know where these things come from while wanting to cut down on your environmental impact. Plus, growing your own food, making or swapping clothing, building your own furniture, can be fun! And there’s so much learning that can happen in the process, expanding your knowledge and skills.
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September 8, 2015 at 12:00 pm (Hilltown Families)
Tags: Cultural History, Experiential Eduation, Experiential Learning, National Parks, Natural History, Nature Based Learning, nature based play
Every Kid in a Park Offers 4th Graders a National Park Free-for-All!
During the 2015-2016 school year, families of 4th graders can gain free access to all of the country’s fantastic national parks! Whether by exploring Massachusetts’ historic sites and national seashore or dreaming about mountainous parks out west, families can engage in both experiential and inspired learning about the treasures our park system has to offer.
Just because summer is quickly waning doesn’t mean that family adventures have to come to an end – and why should they, when national parks have been more accessible to families than ever before! Thanks to the Every Kid in a Park initiative, families that include a 4th grade student (or a home- or un-schooled child of the equivalent age) can visit any of the United States’ national parks for free during the 2015-2016 school year. Every Kid in a Park gives families opportunities to engage experientially in studies of the natural and cultural history of our country, and helps to promote nature-based play and learning by inspiring families to explore the outdoors.
While Massachusetts is not home to any national parks showcasing vast tracts of unique land, the state is filled with national historic sites that speak to the role the state has played in American history – particularly during the 17th and 18th centuries. Locally, the Springfield Armory offers a military history immersion experience within day-trip distance of all of western Massachusetts. In addition to historic sites, a full list of Massachusetts parks reveals natural gems such as the Cap Cod National Seashore and the Boston Harbor Islands, locations that afford visitors the opportunity to explore the state’s Atlantic coastline. Read the rest of this entry »
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August 19, 2015 at 4:00 pm (Community Based Education, Hilltown Families, Resources, Suggested Activity)
Tags: Community Based Education, community based learning, Community Development, Experiential Learning, place-based education, self-directed learning
Hilltown Families: Your Back-to-School Resource, All Year Long!
During the summer months, most children have enjoyed following their interests through outdoor play, reading books they have selected, day-trips with their family, and adventures out in their community. Once late August and early September roll around however, these carefree months of following their own interests and daily rhythms turn towards more organized learning experiences; and for many, the excitement starts to build as families become involved in back-to-school preparations. Maybe this school year will be your child’s first time away from home, or your child is mentally preparing for middle school, or this is their final year in high school… whatever the case, back-to-school can be an exciting time of year for most.
Whether or not your kids are excited about going back to school, or maybe your family homeschools or unschools, that freedom of self-directed learning experienced in the summer months can continue all year round through community engagement outside of the classroom day via community-based education. Read the rest of this entry »
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