This resource is intended to engage undergraduate students in non-science majors by their participation in a citizen-science project.
Material Type: Assessment Item
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.
Material Type: Other, Reference Material, Teaching/Learning Strategy
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Material Type: Learning Task
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Material Type: Unit of Study
We developed an interdisciplinary lesson to help students investigate the structure and function of leaf sizes at the top and bottom of a tree. This lesson could be used with fourth-grade students as well as elementary teacher candidates to model how to get children outdoors to learn.
Material Type: Teaching/Learning Strategy
Through this experience, preservice teachers will learn about and experience the benefits of nature journaling, supports for beginning nature journaling, and how to successfully take children outdoors to learn.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Interactive, Learning Task, Lesson
This is a description of implementing an EE Learning Cycle for Pre-service teachers. It also includes the assignment for Pre-service teachers to implement in the field.
Material Type: Teaching/Learning Strategy
Explore what the United Nations sustainability goals are and their purpose for improving the human and environmental global community. After learning about the goals in general,s students will dig deeper into understanding how achieving Goal #6 Access to Clean Water and Sanitation looks different in every country. After learning about their other countries, students will explore how Wisconsin's own drinking water must be monitored to make sure it's safe. Students will then be asked to explore ways they can alert people to the need to test and make sure their own drinking water is safe.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
Introducing and modeling use of inquiry-based learning strategies and the Wisconsin Standards for Environmental Literacy and Sustainability, this plan takes place over the course of three 110-minute class meetings.
Material Type: Other, Syllabus, Teaching/Learning Strategy
This unit helps students explore the role green spaces play in personal well being through observation, writing, community engagement, and shared mapping technology.
Material Type: Unit of Study
This nature journaling unit is intended for use in an upper division early childhood education science and environment methods course; and will occur in three steps, likely during three consecutive class periods. The intention of this learning sequence is to prepare early childhood pre-service educators to implement nature journaling experiences in order to facilitate emergent cycles of inquiry that will extend theory build and wonder in young children. First the pre-service educators will learn about nature journaling, how to engage with the practice themselves, and how to facilitate nature journaling with young children. Then, through a series of nature journaling practice activities, the pre-service educators will engage in their own nature journaling practice as it connects to the broader early childhood science question of ecological perspective taking and participation with nature. Finally, they will explore how to facilitate and observe children’s nature journaling practice, and how to utilize the questions that emerge from this recurrent practice in cycles of inquiry planning.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Homework/Assignment, Interactive, Lecture Notes, Lesson Plan, Reading, Reference Material, Teaching/Learning Strategy, Textbook, Unit of Study
This lesson uses Dr. Gholdy Muhammad's Historically Responsive Literacy Framework to develop a lesson about water protectors that uses the Wisconsin Environmental Education Standards (ELS) for middle school students.
Material Type: Lesson
Weather and Climate Nature Journaling - This unit overview describes five field experience opportunities to engage students in studies of weather, forecasting and weather hazards. Each experience explains ways to incorporate science journaling, math, tech and literacy.
Material Type: Lesson, Unit of Study
This is a series of lessons where students experience and learn about water as it moves through the water cycle.
Material Type: Lesson, Unit of Study
This is a series of lessons where students engage in hands on investigations about snow.
Material Type: Lesson, Unit of Study
This is a series of lessons exploring what happens to leaves in the fall.
Material Type: Lesson, Unit of Study
In this lesson, students will learn about the process of classifying and naming plants including common and scientific names.
Material Type: Lesson Plan, Unit of Study
In this lesson, students will learn about the process of classifying and naming plants including common and scientific names.
Material Type: Lesson Plan, Unit of Study
At the beginning of each month, students will read and discuss that month's essay from Aldo Leopold’s A Sand County Almanac. They will then use the Wisconsin Almanac Siftr to document the seasonal changes in the natural world around them. At the end of each month, students explore the Siftr postings from their peers and identify any patterns they see in data.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
Plastic bottles are everywhere! About 70% of the plastic water bottles bought in the U.S. are not recycled, and end up in the oceans. It seems obvious that using fewer plastic water bottles would be a good thing for our environment, but sometimes the alternatives can have negative consequences. Do the costs of banning plastic bottles outweigh the benefits?
Material Type: Activity/Lab
