Students explore Indigenous perspectives on stewardship, land trust, and restoration, examining how First Nation laws and values inform sustainable practices and equitable access to water, energy, and land.
Exploring water management by estimating and calculating the percentage of available freshwater on Earth.
Students will compare gas-powered, hybrid, and electric vehicles using a choice board and anticipation guide, play a round of jeopardy, and learn how new EV technologies can integrate into older gas-powered cars.
Expanding on the current scope of “Ecosystem Biodiversity” students will focus on human impacts on ocean biodiversity, centering on ocean acidification and how the change in pH level impacts the health of the lower level of the food web.
Students explore how pollution travels through watersheds by modeling rainfall and runoff on a paper landscape, observing how contaminants spread, then reflecting on real-world impacts and creating memes promoting water conservation and pollution prevention.
To introduce students to ocean acidification students will engage in a two part lesson to explore the pH scale and see how lowering pH levels affect both individual organisms and entire ecosystems. This lesson will be part of my climate change unit.
Students will explore the process and effort it takes to remove pollution from water. Then, students will create an awareness campaign to communicate to the public about how they currently use recycled water in their own community.
Water’s journey through a local water district is tracked with a map and 3D model to identify the major infrastructural components of a local water district and environmental challenges each component faces.
Students will compare costs associated with electric and gas powered vehicles based on driving usage and state and then develop a car buying tool (Choose your own adventure style) using Google Forms.