Field instruction presents many challenges to the teacher: so many distractions, keeping track of your students, physical hazards etc etc. On the other hand, from ancient times on, teachers and students have gathered in tree groves and experienced the bliss of real learning. The outdoors brings us to the world in its completeness and awakens the discoverer in all of us. This activity can be done outside, on a trail, in the schoolyard, or inside too, along a hallway, around a classroom or gym, etc. The purpose is to spread out, give each student some space

One participant teaches the other all about their topic.

Each One Teach One is a simple technique for imparting small pieces of understanding to a group-one student at a time. Each student confronts new information, learns it and then is empowered to teach it to each other student. It allows the teacher rare one-on-one instructional time and lets you select ÒlessonsÓ appropriate to particular student learning styles, energy levels and personalities.

Teachers learning the Each One Teach One Activity at a workshop on the beach.

As a teaching method it can be used with almost any subject or content area that can be divided into small bits such as species of plants or animals and ecological concepts, or physical objects.

Download the full activity here. (88KB PDF)

Download the Sanctuary Cards by clicking the links below:
Channel Islands NMS (2MB PDF)
Cordell Bank NMS (1.9MB PDF)
Fagatele Bay NMS (2.2MB PDF)
Florida Keys NMS (2.2MB PDF)
Flower Garden Banks NMS (2.3MB PDF)
Gray's Reef NMS (1.8MB PDF)
Gulf of the Farallones NMS (2.1MB PDF)
Hawaiian Islands Humpback Whale NMS (1.9MB PDF)
Monitor NMS (1.8MB PDF)
Monterey Bay NMS (1.8MB PDF)
Northwestern Hawaiian Islands Marine National Monument (644KB PDF)
Olympic Coast NMS (2MB PDF)
Stellwagen Bank NMS (1.9MB PDF)
Thunder Bay NMS (1.7MB PDF)