{"id":16960,"date":"2021-03-23T16:36:37","date_gmt":"2021-03-23T16:36:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/fnr\/extension\/?p=16960"},"modified":"2025-02-10T17:35:51","modified_gmt":"2025-02-10T21:35:51","slug":"nature-of-teaching-virtual-workshops-with-certifications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/fnr\/extension\/nature-of-teaching-virtual-workshops-with-certifications\/","title":{"rendered":"Nature of Teaching Virtual Workshops With Certifications"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ag.purdue.edu\/extension\/nature\/Pages\/Virtual-Workshops.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-17110 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/fnr\/extension\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/NOTVirtualWorkshops-302x500.png\" alt=\"NOT_VirtualWorkshops\" width=\"302\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/fnr\/extension\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/NOTVirtualWorkshops-302x500.png 302w, https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/fnr\/extension\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/NOTVirtualWorkshops-768x1271.png 768w, https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/fnr\/extension\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/NOTVirtualWorkshops-250x414.png 250w, https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/fnr\/extension\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/NOTVirtualWorkshops.png 812w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 302px) 100vw, 302px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Nature of Teaching Extension program includes formal standards-based curricula and informal activity-based curricula, all centered around getting youth outside. Topics included are Food Waste, Health &amp; Wellness, and Wildlife. Each program area provides standards-based, classroom-ready, free lesson plans with downloadable PDFs.<\/p>\n<p>The resources keep growing with now opportunities to take the <a href=\"https:\/\/ag.purdue.edu\/department\/extension\/nature\/virtual-webinar-series.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">virtual workshops<\/a> and receive a certificate of completion. The webinars include all the links to the material for K-12 curriculum and activities available. Whether you are a teacher, natural resource leader or a 4-H leader you have the opportunity to use the prepared curriculum with fun activities while teaching K-12 youth about natural resources, conservation, and the environment.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Resources<br \/>\n<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/ag.purdue.edu\/department\/extension\/nature\/virtual-webinar-series.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Virtual Workshops<\/a>, Nature of Teaching<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/ag.purdue.edu\/department\/extension\/nature\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nature of Teaching<\/a>, Website, Purdue College of Agriculture<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCmfyObmbfI-8XH4w_WBlDjg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Nature of Teaching<\/a>, YouTube channel<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/edustore.purdue.edu\/fnr-609-w.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Transporting Food Waste<\/a>, The Education Store, Purdue Extension resource center<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/edustore.purdue.edu\/fnr-539-w.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Benefits of Connecting with Nature<\/a>, The Education Store<br \/>\n<span class=\"style-scope yt-formatted-string\" dir=\"auto\"><a href=\"https:\/\/edustore.purdue.edu\/fnr-413-w.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nature of Teaching: Common Mammals of Indiana<\/a>, The Education Store<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Rod Williams, former Professor of Wildlife Science &amp; Wildlife Extension Specialist<br \/>\nPurdue University Department of Forestry and Natural Resources<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Nature of Teaching Extension program includes formal standards-based curricula and informal activity-based curricula, all centered around getting youth outside. Topics included are Food Waste, Health &amp; Wellness, and Wildlife. Each program area provides standards-based, classroom-ready, free lesson plans with downloadable PDFs. The resources keep growing with now opportunities to take the virtual workshops and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,859,54],"tags":[1375,256,1149,875,661,297,1385,72],"class_list":["post-16960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-howto","category-nature-of-teaching","category-wildlife","tag-animal-tracking","tag-fnr","tag-fnr-ext","tag-food-waste","tag-health-and-wellness","tag-nature-of-teaching","tag-virtual-workshops","tag-wildlife","audience-for-enthusiasts","audience-for-homeowners","audience-for-landowners","audience-for-professionals"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/fnr\/extension\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/fnr\/extension\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/fnr\/extension\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/fnr\/extension\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/fnr\/extension\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16960"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/fnr\/extension\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31504,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/fnr\/extension\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16960\/revisions\/31504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/fnr\/extension\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/fnr\/extension\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/fnr\/extension\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}