Kathe Streeter presenting at the American Montessori Society Annual Conference

At the American Montessori Society Annual Conference, Mrs. Streeter did a presentation on "Placing Seeds: Science and Ecology Education Development Series at a Public Primary Montessori Academy"

Here's a picture of "one of ours" with the poster she used during her presentation.

Link to the poster (11MB PDF download) - not great for mobile phones.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/m71fsfpaedphvhv/streeter%20and%20mikels.pdf

Introduction:
Placing SEEDS is a collaborative research project beginning with the premise that what you touch with the hand touches the mind. By linking research and teaching, we seek to uncover the affectual outcomes of this Montessori approach to education. Educators seek to ignite a sense of wonder, however it is difficult to measure how much that spark carries forth in the development of a child’s environmental ideology. Here we present data using sociological social psychology as a tool for uncovering environmental attitudes as one component of children’s environmental  ideology.

Research Questions
1) What are elementary aged children’s attitudes towards the natural environment?
2) Do teacher environmental attitudes and exposure to environmental education and the outdoors influence children’s attitudes over the course of a school year?
3) How can we apply knowledge about kids’ attitudes to improve environmental education?