Promise of Place: Enriching Lives Through Place-Based Education is quite a large website with many resources about place-based education, including a PDF manual called Learning to Make Choices for the Future: Connecting Public Lands, Schools, and Communities through Place-based Learning and Civic Engagement.  The manual claims that the trend of place-based education is a response to the alarming “growth of a youth culture that has turned away dramatically from nature and the outdoors.” It defines many terms related to place-based education such as service learning, environmental education,  project-based learning, experiential education, etc., which was useful for me. The website also has many examples of and links to place-based learning curriculum (mainly American) such as the Rural School and Community Trust  http://www.ruraledu.org/ and the Alaska Native Knowledge Network http://www.ankn.uaf.edu/publications/index.html