Project Learning Tree. Welcome to NAAEE. Outdoor Learning Guide. This Guide will provide you with information and resources about: What is an Outdoor Learning Area?
How to Make Your Own Outdoor Learning AreaWhat to Do In the Outdoor ClassroomHow to Keep an Outdoor Classroom Going (or Revitalize an Abandoned One)Connecting with Kindred SpiritsOutdoor Classrooms and The Big Picture Resources for Your Outdoor ClassroomWhat is an Outdoor Classroom? Any outdoor space used for student exploration, inquiry and learning is an outdoor classroom.
Some schools make gardens the focalpoint of their outdoor education programs. Others focus on recycling and composting. Wildlife habitats such as woods, ponds, creeks, and clearings are popular settings for nature studies, science investigations, geography projects, measurement activities, and journal writing. National Science Teachers Association - Science & Education Resource. California Science Teachers Association. COSEE West - Education Excellence. Online Teacher Academy. Julie Larsen Maher©WCS WCS's Professional Development Department invites K-12 educators to take a walk on the wild side.
Whether teaching for schools or non-traditional settings, our Online Teacher Academy offers something for every teacher! WCS's award-winning Online Teacher Academy is pleased to offer a variety of learning experiences to suit your needs and interests. Our courses conveniently enhance your understanding of the living world and revitalize your love for nature and science. Entirely online, these six-week courses provide unique opportunities to examine the life sciences of zoology, ecology and conservation, through topics including predators, marine biology, habitat ecology, and climate connections. Realizing it's not just what we teach, but how we teach it, our courses elaborate on effective science education practices. Registration Details Course Offerings. Education and the Environment Initiative (EEI) Home Page (AB 1548) Welcome Teachers! Aquarium of the Pacific Web Image PrevNext Home > Teachers > Welcome Teachers!
Welcome Teachers! Teachers Welcome to the Aquarium of the Pacific Teacher Resources site. Here you will find everything you might need to help you bring the ocean and hands-on science into your classroom. From professional development opportunities, lectures, and workshops, to lesson plans for your classroom, we hope to be your source of inexpensive, realistic, and useful ideas. Consulting fee rates. Consulting fees, consulting fees…How do you set consulting fees?
Here’s a guide to setting consulting fee rates. (It’s also applicable to those wondering how to set consultancy fees — an independent consultant is still a consultancy and so is a freelancer!) When you become a consultant, you’ll need to set consulting fees. Consulting pay and fees can be worked out in several ways. Here’s some information to help you figure out what clients should pay a consultant (some clients are still prone to consultant fee sticker shock, though). The main strategies for setting consulting fees include: Doubling/tripling your hourly wageUsing a daily rate for consultingSetting consultant fees by the projectSetting consulting fees based on performanceSetting consultant fees strategically using real-life dataCharging what everyone else chargesMoving to Solution-based Fees (Want even more info?
Main Strategies for Setting Consulting Fees 1. Calculate Consulting Fees - A how to guide. I frequently get questions how to calculate consulting fees so i decided to write a step-by-step guide to describe how to do it.
Here's my quick, easy and foolproof 7 step method to calculate consulting fees for independent consultants that are based on real data to avoid guesswork as much as possible. It's by no means the only way to calculate your consulting fees but it's a good start. P.S Why don't you go over to consultingvideos.com and get free videos, excel sheets and manuals how to calculate consulting fees? Step 1: Calculate your working hours per year Let's make the following assumptions: There are 52 weeks per year (fairly safe assumption)You take 5 weeks' vacationYou take 7 days off for national holidaysYou take 5 days off for sick leaveA normal workweek is 40 hours Work hours per year are now: (52-5) x 40 - 7x8 - 5x8 = 1,784 hours per year based on the assumptions we just made.
Step 2: Estimate your billable hours Let us for simplicity assume you spend: Habitats/Ecosystems. Ecosystems. We're All in This Together Everything in the natural world is connected.
An ecosystem is a community of living and non-living things that work together. Ecosystems have no particular size. An ecosystem can be as large as a desert or a lake or as small as a tree or a puddle. If you have a terrarium, that is an artificial ecosystem. The More the Merrier A healthy ecosystem has lots of species diversity and is less likely to be seriously damaged by human interaction, natural disasters and climate changes. Life in a Lake In a lake ecosystem, the sun hits the water and helps the algae grow.
Getting Along Ecosystems have lots of different living organisms that interact with each other. Producers are the green plants. There are three types of consumers: herbivores are animals that eat plants, carnivores are animals that eat herbivores and sometimes other carnivores and omnivores are animals that eat plants and other animals. The third type of living organism in an ecosystem are the decomposers. Southwest Marine and Aquatic Educators' Association. CREEC Network: Newsletters. Welcome to NAAEE. WROLC - Home. Project BudBurst. LACOE Home Version 6.0. Vida Verde Nature Education.