Outlook Magazine:
Please enjoy this collection of articles from Outlook Magazine, originally published by the Mountain View Center for Environmental Education. If you are inspired by any of the posted articles and wish to start or continue a dialogue around one or more of them, we encourage you to post your reflections on the Hawkins Centers of Learning blog. Please check back for additions to this archive.
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The Visual Language of Children: Expression in Pictures and Models:
By Mary Eisenberg, published in Outlook 8, Spring 1973A Pentagon Paper:
By Barry Kluger-Bell and Jane Richtmeyer, published in Outlook 14, Winter 1974
Activities for Lower Primary - Wheels:
Part of the African Primary Science Program
Messing About in Science:
Link to the article from The Informed Vision, Essays on Learning and Human Nature, written by David Hawkins. This article can be accessed on the Exploratorium website.
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Rocky Mountain Online Library:
Guide to David Hawkins' Papers from 1963-2001 in the University of Colorado at Boulder Archives
Reflections on Science: The Development of the Hawkins Room for Messing About with Materials and Ideas
Article written by Mary Lynch, Lauren Foster Shaffer, and Ellen Hall and published in Exchange Magazine.
David Hawkins and the Pond Study and David and Frances Hawkins and the Mountain View Center for Environmental Education
This powerful two book compilation includes detailed, one of a kind photos and excerpts documenting two inspirational projects led by David and Frances Hawkins. Written and photographed by Elizabeth Kellogg, documentarian of the Mountain View Center and colleague and friend of the Hawkins'.
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Teachers' Summer Science Study Found to Benefit Students:
Article written by Debra Viadero highlighting the increase in student test scores when science teachers collaborate with university professors on summertime research projects.
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