Bridges to the Natural World --
Habitat Impressions from Student Journals
NORTH BERGEN PUBLIC SCHOOLS - P.E.A.K PROGRAM
The following excerpts
were taken from the Nature Journals of North Bergen's Gifted and
Talented (G & T) Program, also known as P.E.A.K. (Providing
Enrichment and Accelerated Knowledge). The poems and other
written work incorporated Language Arts Literacy, the
Environment, and Multiculturalism. Each year 6th grade
students visit 10 different habitats and record their
impressions of these habitats in their nature journals. At
the end of their unit, the students create and stage a nature
celebration for their parents and community leaders.
Students receive their NJ Audubon Junior Naturalist Certificates
(2004)
This
program has been a part of North Bergen's Educational System
since 1982. P.E.A.K. is a pull-out program. The
students selected for the P.E.A.K. Program spend a portion of
their school time with the P.E.A.K. teachers. They are bussed
from their "home schools" to the District Resource Center for G
& T at J. F. Kennedy School where the classrooms have been
created to meet their specific needs. The development of higher
level thinking skills; critical thinking skills, creative
thinking skills, research techniques and problem solving skills
are emphasized.
As
students visited each different habitat on a series of field
trips, they were asked to keep a journal of their impressions -
these are their words and drawings of the experiences and
discoveries they had "in the field."
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