Nature Interpretation and Teaching

Participants will learn what it means to be a nature interpreter and acquire a broad understanding of the goals, techniques, and attributes required to provide an effective interpretive program. The students will gain a basic understanding of what nature interpretation is and how it differs from formal environmental education and classical nature study; an appreciation that our natural environment and our lives and manmade environments are intertwined; the difference between the interpreter as leader and as provocateur; some basic techniques for interpreting the natural world; strategies for successfully leading a guided walk.