Adaptations and Ecosystems
Students will be able to identify how animal adaptations enhance animal life and mold to ecosystems
Local Resources & Renewable Energy
Lesson 1: Students will learn about natural resources that come from California’s Central Valley.
Lesson 2: Students will learn about renewable energy in the context of recycle/reduce/reuse, as well as related jobs.
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Scrap Paper to Wildflowers
Students work in teams to recycle classroom scrap paper into wildflower seed sheets they can actually plant. Students will apply what they learned by creating a "How to Plant Me" Instruction Tag.
Productive Failure - Building a Paper Table
Students must create a table that can hold at least one class textbook using only paper and tape.
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Turning Waste into Community Wealth
Using evidence from informational texts and examples from companies such as MAAS Energy, Divert, Tracy Renewables, and Hilmar Cheese, students will brainstorm innovative ways to reduce food waste and conserve resources at school.
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Glassbrook Creek Clean Up & Conservation Project
Students will be able to make observations about the trash in a creek behind our playground and collect data on the type of trash in the creek. Does it come from homes or is it wrappers from students’ snacks?
Growing Together: Exploring Plants and Community at College Hill Learning Garden
Kindergarteners will visit College Hill Learning Garden to explore real plants, taste garden-grown food, and engage in hands-on activities that reinforce classroom learning about nature.
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Can You Drink Dirty Water?
In this lesson, students will learn about water on Earth and its distribution through an article reading, and determine the amount of freshwater on Earth using a world map.
Rivers, Sediment, Water, Oh My!
In this lesson, students develop a model of the earth’s surface and use it to discover an important principle about how rivers work.
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