{"id":9920,"date":"2025-03-25T02:00:33","date_gmt":"2025-03-25T02:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/wncelementarystemcop\/?p=9920"},"modified":"2025-04-02T02:17:03","modified_gmt":"2025-04-02T02:17:03","slug":"tourism-through-stem-creating-local-field-guides","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/wncelementarystemcop\/blog\/2025\/03\/25\/tourism-through-stem-creating-local-field-guides\/","title":{"rendered":"Tourism through STEM-Creating Local Field Guides"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our March 2025 WNC Elementary STEM Community of Practice virtual gathering highlighted <strong><em>Tourism Through STEM\u2013Creating Local Field Guides<\/em><\/strong>.\u00a0 Robin Welker (3rd grade teacher at Robbinsville Elementary in Graham County) and Liz Beck (Learning Designer with RootEd) shared this project in which third grade students are designing and printing field guides to promote tourism and showcase their community. They are collaborating with local partners to support learning science (plants\/ecosystems), social studies, and English Language Arts standards and to develop and use technology skills.\u00a0 Find out more by visiting these links:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1QZvqAkI049F-r0M_lpuSVZxtOEeaRSNT\/view?usp=sharing\">March 25,2025 WNC Elementary Science\/STEM CoP Intro Slides<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/presentation\/d\/1xlOA-CwDz9P9I2Upxj8lI6eTVKujsU9uUqB_nHYyD-U\/edit#slide=id.g33a2b911fea_0_0\">Slides from Highlight:<em> \u201cTourism through STEM: Creating Local Field Guides\u201d<\/em><\/a><em>, <\/em>shared by Robin Welker (Graham County Schools) and Liz Beck (RootEd)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/wcu.zoom.us\/rec\/share\/HNp25Uh2jUFd3hW6KAJ_KGuqYk253I5BBXBoRiNuT1_fxd_w5Chwf0gRn8XIfpf2.R7-GP1tXPEikFaIk?startTime=1742932902000\">Recording of our meeting<\/a>\u00a0 (Note: Share at end of meeting was accidentally not recorded.)<i><\/i><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/drive\/folders\/1jpClSdQ-TtWFp9ZZumcbRb3JWgoc7o9G\">2024-2025 WNC Elementary STEM Community of Practice Google folder<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Contact information for presenter: Robin Welker, <a href=\"mailto:rwelker@graham.k12.nc.us\">rwelker@graham.k12.nc.us\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9922\" src=\"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/wncelementarystemcop\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/403\/2025\/03\/Tourism-Through-STEM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"862\" height=\"484\" srcset=\"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/wncelementarystemcop\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/403\/2025\/03\/Tourism-Through-STEM.png 862w, https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/wncelementarystemcop\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/403\/2025\/03\/Tourism-Through-STEM-480x270.png 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) 862px, 100vw\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our March 2025 WNC Elementary STEM Community of Practice virtual gathering highlighted Tourism Through STEM\u2013Creating Local Field Guides.\u00a0 Robin Welker (3rd grade teacher at Robbinsville Elementary in Graham County) and Liz Beck (Learning Designer with RootEd) shared this project in which third grade students are designing and printing field guides to promote tourism and showcase [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3386,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[86,88],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-highlights","category-resources"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/wncelementarystemcop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/wncelementarystemcop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/wncelementarystemcop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/wncelementarystemcop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3386"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/wncelementarystemcop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9920"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/wncelementarystemcop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9920\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9923,"href":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/wncelementarystemcop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9920\/revisions\/9923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/wncelementarystemcop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/wncelementarystemcop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/wncelementarystemcop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}