The Story of Water
The impact of water usage and the importance of conservation and stewardship is interpreted through a children’s book.
Water Stewardship Socratic Seminar and Research
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.
A Drop in the Bucket: Investigating Earth’s Limited Freshwater Supply
Exploring water management by estimating and calculating the percentage of available freshwater on Earth.
Decoding the Drive: Gas, Gas, Hybrid, or Electric
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.
Human Impact on Ocean Biodiversity
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.
It’s Raining!
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.
pH, Organisms, and Ecosystems
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.
Recycling Water is More than the Water Cycle
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.
Tap Water’s Journey
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.