Resources

Environmental & Land Use Law curriculum

ENVIRONMENTAL & LAND USE LAW: ENGAGING STUDENTS IN THEIR COMMUNITY A curriculum for high school teachers and attorneys. This innovative curriculum was published in 2004 by the Washington State Bar Association. It provides lesson plans, handouts, and resources for environmental and land use law attorneys to use when they visit high school classrooms. The curriculum was developed by Kristen Bergsman of Laughing Crow Curriculum LLC and Martin Fortin, Jr. of Cispus Learning Center to support the National Law Day program.

A Path to Place: Creative Nature Journaling Workshops

Open to a blank page in your journal, pull out a pen, and welcome a world of possibilities. With a journal in hand, nature emerges all around you. Through engaging, powerful techniques, your journal will become a path to discovering your connection to place. Through field drawing, mapping, writing and reflection, discover this powerful educational tool. Nature journaling workshops are fun and inspiring for all ages. Journaling provides natural connections to the study of science, art, math, writing and history. We will design a customized workshop for your group.

NWEI Discussion Courses

Join thousands of other North Americans who are choosing to gather in the context of small group dialogue to address ecological issues in a supportive and inspiring context. NWEI offers seven study guides for small groups on living more simply, sustainable lifestyle, raising healthy children, changing the course of global warming and more.

Environmental Education

The Catholic Youth Organization provides a residential outdoor environmental education experience for elementary students through the use of hands-on, exploratory, investigative, and interdisciplinary teaching methods at Camp Hamilton, a 570 acre site in Monroe, WA.

Water Resources Education Center

The Water Center offers field trips options for all ages. Teacher workshops are also offered throughout the year. The Water Center's Water Monitoring Network is available for Clark County teachers who would like to do water quality monitoring testing and macro invertebrates sampling. A variety of different service learning opportunities throughout the year from helping at events to removing invasive species and beach clean ups.

Understanding Sustainability

Understanding Sustainability is a flexible 1-2 week curriculum unit for Washington state middle school science educators to teach sustainability issues. This curriculum features hands-on activities that explore sustainability issues, such as energy consumption, water scarcity, and transportation choices, and potential solutions. Understanding Sustainability is aligned with Washington state middle school science GLEs and includes updated previously released Facing the Future lessons, as well as new lessons and supplementary readings. The unit includes a sequence of activities for each day, student readings, homework assignments, critical thinking questions, and assessment rubrics. Lessons link to relevant and easy-to-implement action projects, including a sustainability audit in which students investigate and make recommendations about the school’s energy, water, trash, and transportation use.

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Beach Ranger Program

2-part, classroom visit and low-tide beach walk with Ranger-Naturalist

Environmental Clubs

Environmental education, elememtary schools, Peninsula School District, after school activities with hands on restoration and learning activities

I Don't Pollute...Do I?

Using a tabletop watershed model, students see how a watershed develops, the kinds of pollution we create, and what we can do to minimize that pollution. Includes map of the school's watershed. 50 minutes

Where Does the Rain Go?

Through this field trip on school property students learn the difference between storm drains and sewers; what watershed their school is in; and where the rain goes when it hits the ground. Includes map of the school's watershed. 60 minutes.

How Much Runoff?

Students hypothesize whether a developed or an undeveloped watershed would have more stormwater runoff. Then they experiment to test their hypothesis, explain why, and come up with alternatives to change the outcome. 50-60 minutes.

Incredible Journey

In this activity from Project WET, students pretend they are water drops and play a game that takes them on a journey through the water cycle. Beads at each station help them remember they're journey. After the game, students verbally share they're journeys using their bead bracelets as reminders, then write a story about their journey. 60 minutes

Sustainability Workgroup

 

Work Party and Forest Ecology Workshop in the West Duwamish Greenbelt, West Seattle WA!

Work Party and Forest Ecology Workshop, 10am - 2pm on Saturdays in the West Duwamish Greenbelt, West Seattle, WA. Each work party begins with a Forest Ecology Workshop. During the fall and winter months we will be planting native plants and trees throughout the site. Performing artists will come out to play in the woods during many of our work parties. Please RSVP if you will be attending. Tools, gloves and refreshments will be provided. Wear waterproof footwear and weather appropriate clothing. Bring a full water bottle. We will have water available for refills. ~ ~ ~ Email or call Elizabeth McDonald to RSVP for work parties. 206-923-0853, volunteer@naturec.org (Please provide your Name, Address, Phone number, Email, Age and work party of interest.) ~ ~ ~ We are currently working at two different sites. Contact us prior to the work party to find out where we will be meeting: 206-923-0853. The Corner of: 14th Ave. SW and SW Holly Street, Seattle, WA 98106 ~ ~ ~ Pigeon Point Park/Cooper School 1901 SW Genesee St Seattle, WA 98106 ~ ~ ~ Our contact info: The Nature Consortium 4408 Delridge Way, SW #107 Seattle, WA 98106 email: volunteer@naturec.org telephone: 206-923-0853 http://www.naturec.org

Master Recycler Training

Thurston County is seeking residents to help spread the word about the benefits of waste reduction, reuse and recycling. In exchange for 18 hours of free training, participants agree to spend 36 hours during the following year working as community volunteers. Master Recyclers can participate in a wide range of county waste reduction activities, or work in their own neighborhoods, schools, or workplaces to encourage waste reduction and recycling.

Kristin Poppo

Head of graduate programs and professional development.

Project WET (Water Education for Teachers)

The goal of Project WET is to facilitate and promote awareness, appreciation, knowledge, and stewardship of water resources through the development and dissemination of classroom-ready teaching aids and through the establishment of state and internationally sponsored Project WET programs.

Environmental Education Instructor Guide

The Chewelah Peak Learning Center offers a variety of outdoor education and leadership programs to supplement existing curriculum and to expand the learning opportunities available to students. The "Chewelah Peak Experience" curriculum guide contains over 75 suggested course outlines and fieldtrips. These classes include outdoor science education programs such as forest study, water study, tracking by snowshoe and the Backpack Program. All the programs can be custom fit to individual groups’ needs. The challenge course is designed to enhance all aspects of team building through mentally and physically challenging activities.

Climate Change: Connections & Solutions

These 2-week curriculum units, one for middle and one for high school, encourage students to think critically about climate change and to collaborate to devise solutions. Students learn about climate change within a systems framework, examining interconnections among environmental, social, and economic issues. Educators and students throughout the U.S. reviewed and tested the lessons and experts from the University of Washington, the Hewlett-Packard Company, and the World Wildlife Fund reviewed the student readings. Thanks to generous funding from Hewlett-Packard Company, this curriculum valued at $24.95 is available for FREE at www.facingthefuture.org. Climate Change: Connections and Solutions is an interdisciplinary curriculum unit. Lessons are aligned with national science and social studies standards but may be used in other classes as well. The units include: 9 hands-on activities 5 student readings Overview of daily activities Homework assignments Reproducible handouts Assessments Educators and students throughout the U.S. reviewed and tested the lessons, and faculty from the Program on Climate Change at the University of Washington reviewed the student readings. The first week of this 2-week unit lays the foundation for understanding some of the forces behind climate change. Students review basic scientific phenomena related to climate change, beginning with the greenhouse effect and concluding with an analysis of different fuel types. The second week widens and deepens students’ comprehension of climate change with an exploration of its connections to various social, economic, and environmental factors. By the end of the unit, students will understand and be able to communicate complex and interconnected issues related to climate change.