PLACE-BASED PROGRAMS - Connecting learning to local places

An integrated set of place-based programs and media resources, the CHANGING PLACES initiative seeks to enhance public understanding about environmental change and our place in nature by creating innovative linkages between the project’s broadcast series, Reinventing California, and its online educational portal. Through these linkages, Changing Places will broaden access to CELP and act as a primary means for connecting people to the places where they live, work, and play – and to nature itself.

Created to reach school, park, museum, and science center audiences at regional sites across California, each place-based program will consist of short films, video podcasts, and print media that are delivered on-site or through the CELP Portal. Programs are conceptually linked to the broadcast series, and scaled – both in content and media format – to environmental change phenomena throughout California.


Each place-based program will be developed through an innovative process that brings together scientists, educators, and media professionals in collaborative working partnerships with local stakeholders who have site-specific knowledge.

 

 

 

Place-based Fact Sheet

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Possible regional sites for development of place-based programs include:

• Redwood Forest
• Point Reyes
• San Francisco Bay
• Monterey Bay
• Channel Islands
• Los Angeles Basin
• Lassen Volcano
• Lake Tahoe Basin
• Sacramento/San Joaquin Delta
• Yosemite Valley
• Death Valley
• Anza Borrego Desert

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Questions or comments, please contact: jbaxter@csus.edu
Last updated: 4/10/08