Moving Field Guide Training for Educators & Artists

Discover how creative tools can be used to connect people to the environment around them. Join Dance Exchange in our teacher training as we explore how to integrate the arts with science learning through Cassie Meador’s Moving Field Guide. Educators, students, artists, and practitioners interested in interdisciplinary arts education are welcome.

The Moving Field Guide is an interactive experience led by Dance Exchange artists, naturalists, and regional experts in ecology. Moving Field Guide projects look at how the arts can offer creative tools for knowing a place, not just using a place. The project provides people across generations an opportunity to get outdoors and gain a lasting understanding of the natural world. Participants move through experiences that build upon discovery, appreciation, recognition, and stewardship of the environment.

During this immersive experience participants activate their senses and observation skills through a series of outdoor movement activities. Combining an artistic and ecological approach to learning, Moving Field Guides help participants to consider the beauty, complexity, and human impact on the environment around them.

Dance Exchange has facilitated Moving Field Guides with the USDA Forest Service, Girl Scouts of the USA, Wesleyan University, US Botanical Gardens, Glen Echo Park, Arizona State University, and middle and elementary schools throughout the Greater DC Region.