Re-Envisioning Land & Learning: The How’s & Why’s of the Granville 100-Acre Prairie Learning Lab

Can prairies and schools bloom together? Come find out how!

Jim Reding, Environmental Studies teacher at Granville High School, will present the amazing story of how his students created a 100-acre land lab outside Granville’s Intermediate School, with vernal pools they helped restore, a sinuated stream they helped construct, bat boxes they put in… along with dozens of other projects, including over 2000 trees the nearby elementary students planted! How did such things happen? As a direct result of hands-on, place-based, student-directed project learning!

This event is co-sponsored by EECO, Preservation Parks & the North Central Ohio Pollinator Pathways Initiative.

Schedule for the afternoon:

1:00 – 2:00 > Talk by Jim Reding, with panel discussion and ideas on how to start your own school prairie!

2:00 – 4:00 > “Educating With Prairies” with Preservation Parks naturalists (come dressed for outdoor learning!)