Hands on and self paced activities kids can complete at home. Can create within the classroom or make an at home challenge for students. Easily accessible materials. Video guides and online resources for students as well. Good for all ages!
for grades 2-6
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This resouce is a lesson plan that aims to inform about how animals use sound to avoid for competing for space. Also that there are ways to analyze the land management levels. This lesson plan includes essential questions, 3 part lesson, materials such as recordings and maps, and is connected to the Next Generation Science Standards.
In 2012, the Fishers & Farmers Partnership for the Upper Mississippi River Basin (FFP) contracted to
have a spatially explicit analysis of fish habitat condition performed using Geospatial Information Systems
(GIS). Spatially explicit habitat assessment models, such as the models used in this map book, provide a robust
interpretation of terrestrial and aquatic data and the relationships and influence of landscape activities (Martin et
al., 2012). Aquatic and terrestrial data were collected throughout the Upper Mississippi River Basin (UMRB)
and modeled using Boosted Regression Tree (BRT) modeling and validated using an internal cross-validation
method (Elith et al., 2008).
The FFP, and their fiscal agent the Dubuque County Historical Society, entered a cooperative agreement
with the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) for composition of geospatial data and printable map
books to guide conservation efforts throughout the basin. The UMRB is comprised of 139 Hydrologic Unit
Code-8 (HUC-8) watersheds and over 180,000 catchments (1:100k National Hydrography Dataset) and 12
different Level III Eco-Regions (CEC, 1997). The diversity of the landscape across the basin, and the sheer size
of the basin, poses management and prioritization issues when performing large scale assessments. The
production of state-scale map books provides a local assessment of modeling outcomes for distribution and
reference.
The data represented in this map book were derived from models, analyses, and data developed by
Downstream Strategies, LLC. and their partners (DS). Data were provided to PA contracted by the FFP to
serve as the Science Team Lead and Geospatial Coordinator.
This is a series of spring phenology lessons where students observe and explain changes in nature as the season changes from winter to spring.
“Square Foot Gardens: Healthy Spaces for People and Pollinators” is an interdisciplinary unit of study for twenty-four second grade students at Maple Grove Charter School. Part of a year-long science program, the unit complements the second grade EL Education English Language Arts Curriculum in which two Modules (approximately 18 weeks of literacy instruction) focus on the following guiding questions from Modules 3 & 4: “How do plants grow and survive?How do pollinators help plants grow and survive?How do we get the fruits, flowers, and vegetables that we enjoy?How do we become researchers and share our learning?Why should people help pollinators to survive?How can I take action to help pollinators?” (https://eleducation.org )
This text set includes a variety of multimodal resources designed to help learners understand treaty rights as they apply to the state of Wisconsin, giving special emphasis to the court cases of LCO v. Voight and State v. Gurnoe. Indian tribes were independent, sovereign nations, before the arrival of Europeans in North America. Despite ceding their lands in the northern part of Wisconsin to the U.S. government, Chippewa tribes reserved the right to hunt, fish, and gather within the Ceded Territory. In the 1980’s, these court cases affirmed those rights. The year 2024 celebrates 50 years of the court decision.
The attached PowerPoint introduces the idea of using nature and wellness in undergraduate programs to retain students. The information was shared during a 50-minute college in-service break-out session. First, participants engaged in nature journaling. Then presenters shared the research behind nature and wellness activities and described how activities, such as nature journaling, could retain students.
What can maple tree tapping tell you about temperature and changes in our climate?
Though it only happens for a handful of weeks each year, tapping maple trees, collecting sap, and boiling to make maple syrup is seen as a marker of changing seasons. The sap-collecting season does not just yield maple syrup, it also yields a sign of the coming of spring and what’s happening with the climate. Follow the family at Stoney Acres farm through maple sugaring and syrup boiling to discover more about the future of maple syrup in the state.
This story is part of Climate Wisconsin, a collection of educational media resources for middle and high school classrooms from PBS Wisconsin Education.
This unit is designed around providing student choice. There will be 5 novels for students to choose from: Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys, Refugee by Alan Gratz, Zeros by Scott Westerfeld, The Martian by Andy Weir, and Lord of the Flies by William Golding. Each novel focuses on the central theme of survival. Students will read and meet weekly for 8 weeks. Each week the novel groups will be given specific discussion questions and tasks that are aligned with Wisconsin ELA standards and Wisconsin Standards for Environmental Literacy & Sustainability.
This is an example lesson plan with materials about the China's enviornmental issues for educators to use for creating their lesson. This lesson plan has multiple activities, readings, and pictures about various enviornmental issues that are occuring in Chhina in current times.
This is a 3 part lesson plan about the fishing industry and ocean populations. Students will first model through a simulation how fishing affects ocean animal populations. Then students will create and design solutions to the issue of overfishing. Then students will learn about how to support sustainability with the fishing industry and how to find businesses that practice sustainable fishing practices. This lesson is connected to the science and engineering practices and next generation science standards.
This template is to be used by participants attending the TENFEE (Teacher Educators Network for Environmental Education) professional learning summit. Sign into WISELearn to create your own copy of this resource and update the template and this abstract.
This template is to be used by participants attending the TENFEE (Teacher Educators Network for Environmental Education) professional learning summit. Sign into WISELearn to create your own copy of this resource and update the template and this abstract.
This resource is intended to engage undergraduate students in non-science majors by their participation in a citizen-science project.
This is a resource that describes the action plan since attending the TENFEE workshops to learn about and apply the Environmental Literacy and Sustainability Standards in a Teacher Education Program in Wisconsin.
Objective
The students will be able to:
Become a productive team member by following the directions to the activity.
Conceptualize how people’s impact on a forest (or cave) changes that environment.
Please Remix this template for your purposes.
Please Remix this template for your purposes.