Connecting Children and Nature: A Teacher's Guide
Our Tremont staff have evaluated each of our lessons and have spent the past two years revising these lessons to reflect the teaching styles, issues and needs of participants in our school programming. This very talented group of teacher/naturalists have also written new lessons, which provide new opportunities for exploration and learning in
Great Smoky Mountains National Park. These lessons have been written specifically for
use at Great Smoky Mountains Institute at Tremont, but many of the activities, and often
entire lessons, can be easily adapted for use in other places and situations. In fact, it is
our intent that teachers use many of the lesson activities in their classroom before they
visit Tremont to prepare the students for their experience or for continued study upon
return to their own communities. These lessons incorporate an interdisciplinary, experiential approach designed to encourage the development of a student’s awareness and appreciation of the natural world and people’s relationship to and role as a part of that world. A further discussion of our teaching philosophy, core themes, and design of the “Tremont experience” is found following this introduction.
Our Curriculum DVD has been created with the express intent of putting everything teachers might need to prepare for a trip to the Great Smoky Mountains Institute at Tremont with their students into their hands. By using this disk in conjunction with our website, we hope that teachers will have the most up to date materials and information available to them. Teachers planning for a trip may view, email or print most of the information from this disk for their use or for the distribution to administrators, teachers, parents and chaperones.delines and information on activities, scheduling, packing and everything else you need to know to plan your school's trip to Tremont.
