Providing rangelands curriculum for teachers means looking at more than the ideas that range management professionals wish to communicate to students. It must also meet the needs of these teachers and students. This means that the curriculum must provide activities that address the content and skills required by the state to be taught and tested in their jurisdiction. In this presentation you will learn how to make rangelands curriculum appropriate, useable, and teacher friendly. You will also learn the basic concepts included in state and national science standards that are related to important rangelands conceptual themes and why these basic concepts are important. In addition, you will explore the appropriate age to begin teaching these concepts and how to meet the needs of students by using multiple learning modes to create lessons that are interesting, fun, and memorable to help students internalize the concepts and make them a part of their value systems. Finally, we will look at how these techniques encourage students' interests in careers in range management.
Oral presentation and poster titles, abstracts, and authors from the Society for Range Management (SRM) Annual Meetings and Tradeshows, from 2013 forward.