This lesson plan about green transportation for kids will help you teach them to be mindful of the impact that transportation has on the environment!
Controversial issues are complex topics that are grounded in conflicting values or opinions and can result in emotional reactions and public dispute. Schools may avoid difficult issues that could bring forth feelings of fear, confusion, or anger. Addressing these issues, however, can motivate students to learn and make relevant connections to their local and global communities. For students to become active and engaged citizens, they will need civil discourse and reasoning skills, as well as tolerance, empathy, compassion, and an interest in civic knowledge.
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In Headlines and High Water, players take on the role of a young journalist in the fictional town of Twin Lakes, where the annual Cherry Festival is thrown into chaos by a catastrophic flood. The player is tasked with interviewing locals and writing stories to keep the town informed—all while staying safe during the town’s worst flood of the century.
Throughout the game, players build trust with the townspeople and interview a cast of quirky characters—like Birdie, the aptly-named nature conservationist, and Fred Finkler, the gardener who’ll talk your ear off. In the end, the player’s reporting will determine if Twin Lakes is still around a year from now, or if future floods wash the town right off the map.
By practicing the three R’s – reduce, reuse and recycle – we can cut our trash by significant amounts and
lower our impact on landfills and the planet.
When wolves were reintroduced to Yellowstone National Park in the United States after being absent nearly 70 years, the most remarkable "trophic cascade" occurred. What is a trophic cascade and how exactly do wolves change rivers?
Students will watch this video as an example for how populations can change an ecosystem.
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How conservation and human communities interact and planning needs to take into effect this concept.
Greg “Biskakone” Johnson is a member of the Lynx Clan and an enrolled member of the Lac du Flambeau Band of Lake Superior Chippewa. Learn how his passion for keeping traditional ways alive includes hunting deer and using nearly all parts of the deer for food, clothing, and tools.
This resource is part of The Ways, a collection of educational media resources for middle and high school classrooms from PBS Wisconsin Education.
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The Bayfield High School Ojibwe Language Course focuses on teaching traditional Ojibwe lifeways while using the Ancestral language. Students will learn how the Ojibwe people historically depended on natural resources for their survival. One activity that occurs in the spring is the investigation of Plant Phenology. The students will further their investigation by looking into reasons why the Phenology of certain plants vary. The students will focus on the impact of climate change and how it poses many risks to phenological events in the plants used by the Great lakes Ojibwe. Students will list various plants, research, and record the phenological events of the plants. Students will compare their observations with the previous year to determine if the plants are impacted by Climate change. Local tribal elders and harvesters provide traditional stories and observations to gain a historical information on plant phenology. Through this activity, Bayfield students learn about how climate change can alter the phenology of some plant species and might impact traditional harvesting.
Why might less ice on the lakes, for less time, be a problem?
Wisconsin winters are often thought of as long and cold, but for those who love ice fishing, those cold temperatures mean they’ll have the ice cover needed to fish on the lakes. As conditions change, ice cover and the ice fishing season are changing too, and people are noticing. Hear from two ice fishing enthusiasts about their experiences heading out on the lakes to fish.
This resource is part of Climate Wisconsin, a collection of educational media resources for middle and high school classrooms from PBS Wisconsin Education.
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This resource is an online interactive simulation of the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Washington in the United States of America. This simulation has 3 key features which are research areas, instruments with their current readings, and infrastructures near and in the Pacific Ocean. The user can select a feature that they want to learn more about by selecting that feature and then the user can learn about various oceanic equipment used in that area as well as if the equipment is currently operational.
Slide Deck for Introductory Session held January 26, 2022
This resource consists of 6 lessons for grades 4-6 to teach the introduction to students about ecosystem services. These 6 lessons consist of webquests, assessments, readings, and Bingo! These lessons are for inside and outside of the classroom.
This resource shows how a teacher educator can unpack a general overview of the connect, explore and engage strands of Wisconsin's Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (WELS) Standards. While pre-service teachers will undoubtedly become immersed in WELS standards during their science and science methods courses, the integration of WELS standards from the very beginning of their teacher certification program is a proactive approach to learning. The placement of WELS standards into the beginning of their program will hopefully increase the likelihood these future educators will value this integration as a natural part of their teaching requirements rather than as an additional concept to squeeze in.
This unit will use a variety of resources to give students a guide to understanding Treaty Rights and the importance of Treaty Rights to Indigenous peoples. It is important for all people, Indigenous and non-Indigenous, to understand Treaty Rights, how they were established, and how they apply today.
This inquiry is designed for supporting students' independent exploration of water outdoors as well as the use of computer interactives.
Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibwe School has an annual sugarbush within a few miles of the school. During the Spring sugarbush season, students are bussed to the site, by class, to do the variety of daily tasks required to successfully produce maple syrup. The LCO middle school students follow the Ojibwe traditions. They hear the traditional stories, learn words and phrases in the Ojibwemowin language, tap trees, collect and boil sap, chop wood and build fires. The students learn about tree identification, photosynthesis, and aging trees using cross sections. They also learn about the importance and uses of Maple trees. The students learn that the environmental conditions needed to make maple syrup are only found in a very small part of the world that includes Wisconsin. The combination of hands-on exploration and culturally - relevant texts personalize the learning experience for this region.
This 10-lesson sequence designed for a sixth grade science course explores the following questions: How can humans lessen the harsh effects of extreme heat?How does surface cover affect surface temperature? / Why do different materials experience differences in surface temperature?How might human activities impact the temperatures in the different communities?How can humans mitigate the effects of heat islands?Using the framework from Dr. Gholdy Muhammad outlined in her book Cultivating Genius, each lesson pays special attention to looking at pursuits in identity, skills, intellect, criticality, and joy to support equity in the classroom. Please Remix this template for your purposes.
Through this interactive, hands-on lesson, students will read and gain an understanding of Aldo Leopold’s essay, “January Thaw”. This lesson is best taught in January and/or when animal tracks are present outside.