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Author: Gabby Salazar

Photographer and conservationist Gabby Salazar travels around the globe to document rare and endangered species and to raise awareness about their plight. She is a National Geographic Young Explorer, a former President of the North American Nature Photography Association, a U.S. Fulbright Scholar in Photography, and a member of the Emerging League of the International League of Conservation Photographers (iLCP). At 19, she founded a student magazine with Nature's Best Photography to promote photography as a way to connect kids with nature. She continues to teach photography to children and teenagers around the world. For more National Geographic Learning content from Gabby, you can watch her webinar recording: Inspiring Environmental Responsibility in the Young Learner Classroom here: NGL.Cengage.com/YLwebinars .
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How to Bring Nature Journaling into your Classroom

19 June 2018 Gabby Salazar Teaching Teens, Young Learners Leave a comment

A few days ago*, I visited Walden Pond in Concord, Massachusetts. When I arrived, the wind was bitingly cold, and the lake shore was obscured by thick flurries of snowflakes. I was there to see the place where Henry David Thoreau, renowned writer and naturalist, had spent two years, two

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Bring the World into Your Classroom Through Photography

23 February 2018 Gabby Salazar Teaching Teens, Young Learners 4 comments

For over a century, students have had opportunities to learn about far off places through pictures brought back by intrepid explorers venturing across the globe. The world learned about the Incan ruins of Machu Picchu through the images of explorer Hiram Bingham and saw the view from Mount Everest after

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Capturing Culture in your Classroom

13 December 2017 Gabby Salazar Teaching Teens, Young Learners Leave a comment

Music, food, language, dance, stories and decorations. These are just a few of the ways that people express their cultural heritage. As a photographer, one of the most exciting parts of my work is discovering and photographing different cultural traditions around the world. When I visit a new place, I

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Become a Citizen Scientist

10 October 2017 Gabby Salazar Teaching Teens One comment

Become a Citizen Scientist (Using Your Phone!) Did you know that you can contribute to scientific research using only your phone? Scientists around the globe are calling on anyone with a camera or a computer to help contribute to our knowledge of the world. This movement is called Citizen Science

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Inspire Environmental Responsibility in the YL Classroom - Gabby Salazar

Interview: Gabby Salazar on Inspiring Environmental Responsibility in the YL Classroom through Photography

22 February 2017 Gabby Salazar Young Learners 4 comments

Listen to Gabby Salazar talk in more detail about how to inspire environmental responsibility in the YL classroom through photography! Have you read Gabby’s article on the subject?

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Inspiring Environmental Responsibility in the Young Learner Classroom with Photography

22 February 2017 Gabby Salazar Young Learners 2 comments

When I was 11 years old, my father gave me my first camera and took me to a friend’s backyard garden to photograph birds. Sitting in a small shelter with my eye pressed against the camera’s viewfinder, I watched as bright red cardinals and brilliantly colored blue jays landed on

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