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Category: Education
Stories that turn climate anxiety into hope
Students in a Discovery Core class harness the power of storytelling to teach ecology to the next generation. A bear named Bingo wanders the temperate rainforest of Cascadia, looking for his mother. As he moves through trees and along rivers and ponds, he encounters other local inhabitants: Olivia Owl, Frank the Frog and Seth the...
January 16, 2025
When a park becomes a classroom
In first-ever class at the Environmental Education and Research Center, students conduct research with an eye for conserving biodiversity in urban green spaces. Early in his career as an ecologist, Dr. David Stokes, like many at the time, wanted to understand how ecosystems functioned in pristine conditions away from human influence. In Patagonia, South America,...
April 12, 2024
From the forest to the lab: High schoolers get hands-on learning in environmental workshop
Students from UW Bothell and local high schools explore stream biology, geomorphology and more on campus and at the Environmental Education & Research Center. Gathering in labs, woods and creeks — and working alongside recent graduates from the University of Washington Bothell — local high school students spent two weeks this summer learning about science...
August 24, 2023
Our home in the forest
Our Home in the Forest, a Discovery Core class at the University of Washington Bothell this autumn quarter, stretches the boundaries of what constitutes a classroom. Not content to study nature at a distance, the faculty leaders and their students went from learning in a typical 900-square-foot room with white walls and carpet flooring to a 326-acre...
December 20, 2021
