At Glacier's End: A 3-Day Educator's Workshop

Illinois Natural Divisions Education Framework

At Glacier’s End is an educator workshop introducing Illinois educators to a Natural-Divisions-Education-based framework for setting natural and other sciences and courses of study into a connective framework, based in place.  Bridging curriculum, existing available resources, school and public programs, educational sites, and integrated experiential field programs. Including variable combinations of these educational vectors depending on settings and populations.
This first, in an intended series of workshops, focuses on the use of an Illinois Natural Divisions Education Framework for formal, non-formal, and pre-service educators. Geographically focused in the transition zone across the Great Illinois’ Glacial Till Plain, and the Greater Shawnee Hills Divisions. A zone of the southern Illinois Divisions which runs laterally across the southern section of the state from the Ohio to the Mississippi Rivers, making it relevant to the widest swath of learners along, and to the North and South of that zone in southern Illinois.

The workshop models the application of existing and available resources including physical, online, experiential and site-based methods of delivery. Applying a natural integration of sciences and other areas of study, into the connective framework of place.  A framework that can be applied statewide as modeled by this workshop.