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Hastings
has supported K-12 teaching since 1999. Our primary focus is providing
teachers with the background about the biology of Monterey County and
central, coastal California. Teachers can then take this information,
or resources provided by Hastings, to their classrooms and work with their
students in the many open spaces and parks of California set up to handle
large groups. Hastings has primarily been a research facility and the
impact of K-12 teaching on research facilities can be significant. Thus,
Hastings has zoned part of the reserve most recently acquired for teaching.
Hastings is seeking funds for a large housing
and classroom facility, strictly to be used for teaching, that will accomodate
classes on this area zoned for teaching. To protect our research resources,
we will only accomdate K-12 students on Hastings in the most controlled
teaching environments with clear and demanding curricula in hand and adequate
student supervision.
Currently Hastings offers the following
resources for K-12 educators:
-
Information on this website,
including
- Bats
of Monterey County- photos, keys, natural history
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Oak Woodlands- natural history
and oaks, conservation and biology
-
Landowner's
Guide to Managing Native Grasslands
-
Amazing
Monarch Butterflies of Monterey County
-
.....for more.....look at the section (left) on Natural History.
- Box
of Mammals; Scientific preparations: dried skins, skull, bones and workbook
with grade 5-8 exercises
- Box
of Birds; Scientific preparations: dried skins, skulls, bones and workbook
with grade 5-8 excercises
Camel
Middle School Habitat Program Hastings has been working with
Craig Hohenbeger and Ellen
Fondiler for the past few years. This
combination garden, natural amphitheater, wildlife area and restored grassland
offers a wide variety to ways to link students with the natural world around
them as they learn. Students from the Habitat program visit Hastings several
times and year and we work with the Habitat to provide online access to nature.
- Exploring
California Biodiversity NSF-funded Program Partnering UC Graduate
Students, Teachers, K-12 Students. This is a major program that
involves about 50 K-12 students with Hastings, along with 4-6 graduate
students and the teachers from Bay Area Schools. Check out their
link and read more about this great program that links underserved
kids with the UC Museums and field stations. If we are approved
by NSF, Hastings will formally enter into an agreement with Carmel
Unified School District as a partner with the Explore California
Biodiversity program. This will mean a UC Berkeley graduate student
in life sciences will be available to the CMS teachers and we will
work out a program of sharing Hastings' biological knowledge with
the students in CUSD.
-
Jamesburg Family Cooperative. Lily
Kotler, with support from the Community Foundation of Monterey County,
offered participation in art for parents and children of local families
to work together in an environment of creative arts. The class used a
part of the School House, the residence of former residents Janis Dickinson
and Walt Koenig. The Jamesburg Family Co-op sponsored an art class that
met at Hastings Reservation every Monday from 2 pm. until 7 pm.
The class offered an opportunity for community members to explore a variety
of media such as ceramics, weaving, paper art, etc. All ages were welcome. Lily
Kotler, an Occupational Therapist, facilitated this program. In 2008,this
program was ended, after a run of nearly 10 years. If funding were found
for a similar class, we would welcome the presence of local support
for arts in the Hastings setting.