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This survey is for a place-based education project in ED 446: Inquiry into Teaching and Learning. Place-based education can be defined in many ways. One possible definition is that place-based education is a community-based form of learning that utilizes many aspects of a student’s surroundings including the landscape, history, political and cultural groups, and individual community members. A few examples of place-based education might include interviews with community elders, location-based science projects, or identifying and responding to social justice problems within the community.
If you have had an experience that could be considered place-based education, please answer the questions based off of that experience. If you haven’t had any experience with place-based education, please skip to question 7 by pressing the “next” button at the bottom of this page.

Demographic Information

1. When was your experience with place-based education?

  • Elementary School
  • Middle School
  • High School
  • Other

2. For the majority of your education, where was the school you attended located?

  • Urban setting
  • Suburban setting
  • Rural setting

3. How many students were enrolled in your high school?

  •  >100
  • 100-300
  • 300-700
  • 700-1200
  • 1200-2000
  • >2000

4. What type of school did you go to?

  • Private
  • Public
  • charter  (if so, did it have a focus on the arts, sciences etc.?)
  • other

5. Did your school have a particular focus? (i.e. arts, STEM, bilingual immersion, vocational, religious) Feel free to provide any relevant information.

6. Which racial/ethnic/cultural groups were represented at your school?

7. Have you had any exposure to place-based/experiential learning? If so, which subject? What did it look like? Did you like it? If not, would you have liked to see it in your education? In what capacity?

8. For which subjects do you think place-based learning is most beneficial? (Choose 3)

  • Science
  • Language Arts
  • Math
  • History
  • Art
  • Music
  • P.E.
  • Foreign Languages
  • Social Science
  • Health
  • Other

9. What is the most important aspect of your hometown?/What does “place” mean to you?

  • Community members (friends, family, neighbors, etc.)
  • Setting (urban, rural, etc)
  •  Landscape (lakes, forests, oceans)
  • Cultural or Political Groups
  • Historical Events or Landmarks

10. Please elaborate on your answer.