Pine Mountain Settlement School
Series 22: ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION
Photographs 1980s – 90s Day Camp with Ben Begley

Environmental education up close and personal, 1990s, Pine Mountain Settlement School. [445012-R1-22-2A bw.jpg]
ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION Photographs 1980s-1990s
Day Camp with Ben Begley
TAGS: Environmental Education, students, indoor and outdoor classes, Ben Begley, reading camps, day camps, weaving, Western Elementary School
While the fundamental ideas surrounding environmental education have always been part of the School, the foundation of a formal Environmental Education Program, conceived and promoted as part of the School’s mission, did not occur until the early 1970s. From that early beginning, the School began to cast a wide net for incorporating environmental awareness into the regional schools and became a leader in the environmental education movement.
Following the formal institution of the Environmental Education Program in 1972 at Pine Mountain Settlement School, EE programs soon reached out to over 3,000 children and adults each year through a series of on-site and residential programs for schools and in adult workshops that focused on a planned environmental education program.
Displayed in the Gallery below are photographs of the Environmental Education (EE) program at Pine Mountain Settlement School taken during the 1980s and 1990s. The images show clips taken during classes indoors and outdoors and reflect the types of programming at the School. Ben Begley, Teacher and Director of Environmental Education at PMSS from 1986 until 2014, is featured in many of the images. The photographer is unknown.
GALLERY: ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION Photographs
- Environmental Education. Ben Begley and students in the classroom. [Ben-teaching-08-bw.jpg]
- Environmental Education Ben Begley and students in the classroom. [Ben-teaching-08.jpg]
- Environmental Education. Ben Begley shows a frog to reading camp students. [Ben-teaching-reading-camp-08-bw-scaled.jpg]
- Environmental Education. Ben Begley shows a frog to reading camp students. [Ben-teaching-reading-camp-08-scaled.jpg]
- Environmental Education. Day Camp students work with potting soil. [day-camp-4-bw.jpg]
- Environmental Education. Day Camp students work with potting soil. [day-camp-4.jpg]
- Environmental Education. Jonna teaches container planting to students. [Jonna-and-kids-bw-scaled.jpg]
- Environmental Education. Jonna teaches container planting to students. [Jonna-and-kids-scaled.jpg]
- Environmental Education. A student places a plant in the ground. [Picture1-bw.jpg]
- Environmental Education. A student places a plant in the ground. [Picture1.jpg]
- Environmental Education. Students try out a microscope. [IMG_0062-bw.jpg]
- Environmental Education. Environmental Education. Students try out a microscope. [IMG_0062.jpg]
- Environmental Education. A student closely studies a specimen. [445012-R1-22-2A bw.jpg]
- Environmental Education. A student closely studies a specimen. [445012-R1-22-2A .jpg]
- Environmental Education. Ben Begley and students on boulders in a stream. [ben-on-rocks-bw.jpg]
- Environmental Education. Ben Begley and students on boulders in a stream. [ben-on-rocks.jpg]
- Environmental Education. Students explore Isaacs Creek. [Picture3-bw.jpg]
- Environmental Education. Students explore Isaacs Creek. [Picture3.jpg]
- Environmental Education. A student in a weaving class. [Picture8-bw.jpg]
- Environmental Education. A student in a weaving class. [Picture8.jpg]
- Environmental Education.Western Elementary students study the forest floor. [Western-Elementary-022-bw-scaled.jpg]
- Environmental Education. Western Elementary students study the forest floor. [Western-Elementary-022-scaled.jpg]
- Environmental Education. Western Elementary student explores a stream. [Western-Elementary-195-bw-scaled.jpg]
- Environmental Education. Western Elementary student explores a stream. [Western-Elementary-195-scaled.jpg]
- Environmental Education. Ben Begley teaches students to use a crosscut saw. [Picture2-bw.jpg]
- Environmental Education. Ben Begley teaches students to use a crosscut saw. [EE_Picture2.jpg]
- Environmental Education. Students hold hands and form a circle. [IMG_0459.jpg]
See:
ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION
ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION Guide
See Also:
BEN BEGLEY Staff – Biography
ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION at PMSS Today
ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION Guide 1972 to Present



























