Your class has been asked to help other students to learn about the importance of clean waterfor healthy fish. Students will read an article and watch a video, taking notes on these sources. Through these sources, students will learn about stormwaterpollution and how we can prevent it. They will also learn the importance of this phrase: Only rain down the drain! Essays will help other students to understand the importance of clean water for healthy fish! Includes Teacher directions and scoring notes

Students are asked to explain to another class what is required to start a vegetable garden. Students will watch a video and read an article about starting a vegetable garden, taking notes on these sources, and then write an informational essay. Includes Teacher directions and scoring notes.

Students are asked to present a speech at the opening of the River and Ocean Film Festival, explaining why marine debris is such a problem for wildlife. Use information from the video, the fact sheet, the infographic, and the data collected on the shoreline to outline a speech. The audience is visitors to the Washington Coast. Includes Teacher directions and scoring notes.

Students will read two articles and watch one video describing what rain gardens are and how they benefit the environment. They will also visit your school’s rain garden, taking photos to document its benefits. Students will compose and deliver a speech explaining how rain gardens improve the environment, incorporating photos from your school’s rain garden in their speech. Includes Teacher directions and scoring notes.

Students will watch two informational videos about stormwater management and read the job description for a stormwater engineer, taking notes on these sources. Then they will respond to three research questions and write an article explaining the important work of a stormwater engineer. Includes Teacher directions and scoring notes.

Students write an essay explaining what stormwater is, how stormwater gets polluted, and two actions we can take to keep the stormwater clean. Students will read an article, view a video, and study a diagram to build  knowledge of stormwater pollution. Then write an essay to share at the Parent Information Night. Includes Teacher directions and scoring notes.

Students will write an informational essay explaining the What, Why and How of water monitoring. They will use information from videos and articles to write an essay. Includes Teacher directions and scoring notes.

Students are asked to explain these benefits to a family from out of [WA] state that has just inherited 500 acres of forestland and are unsure about its value. Students use information from the article, the poster, and the video to answer three research questions and to write an essay, explaining the many benefits of a forest. Includes teacher directions and scoring notes.

Students are invited to submit an essay about invasive plants,  to a local newspaper is publishing student essays about important environmental topics. The essay will be based on the research conducted through reading two sources, a fact sheet, and a blog, and watching a video about invasiveplants. Includes teacher directions and scoring notes.

Students will examine several sources about Earth Day. Then answer three questions about what they have learned. In Part 2, students l write an explanatory essay about Earth Day for the essay. Includes teacher directions and scoring notes.

Utilizando materiales que ellos mismos prueban, los estudiantes disenan un refugio lo suficientemente grande para que quepa un sapo de origamia y se mantenga seco durante la lluvia. Los estudiantes proyectan sus planos, construyen y hacen pruebas de materiales.

Se introduce a los estudiantes al fenomeno de las hojas que cambian de color en el otono. En estas tres lecciones los estudiantes observan hojas y las separan por sus caracteristicas para aprender a identificar el arbol de donde provienen.

Los estudiantes exploran la conexion entre la temperatura de los suelos y la germinacion de las semillas.

Students design, using materials they tested, a dwelling large enough to fit an origami frog and keep it dry in the rain. Student draft plans, build, test, and optimize their solutions to the question, “how do you build a natural toad abode?"

Students are introduced to the phenomenon of leaves changing color in the fall. In these three lessons students, 1) observe leaves and sort them by their characteristic to explore the concept that trees’ leaves have unique characteristics that help identify the tree and are inherited from their parent tree

Los estudiantes descubriran las condiciones necesarias para la vida de las plantas y los animales, incluyendo seres humanos. 

Students will hone their intuitive sense of biology and in the process discover what conditions are required for life. Students will also investigate how sunlight impacts the temperature of surfaces. Finally, students will engineerand test a shelter that can change a surface’s temperature to make it more compatible with apotential schoolyard creature.

As English teachers, we often teach novels that reflect the struggles of racism and poverty within the African American community through the twentieth century. Landmark civil rights laws in the 1960’s changed the legal landscape of freedom in our country, but equality of opportunity and economic prosperity is still hindered by political policy and racism. It is critically important to reveal these truths to students, especially students in the African American community. However, as teachers, we should also be offering solutions to economic disparity that go beyond angry rhetoric, which are based in logic and are data-driven. What are some concrete ways families and individuals can break the cycle of poverty? What kinds of services should we as a society be fighting for? How does income parity benefit all of us? What are some ways to achieve this, and achieve a society that is more meritorious and efficient? This unit uses the play, A Raisin in the Sun as a model. The dreams of the Younger family are posed to students as choices to break out of poverty. Students will research the effects of moving to a good neighborhood, home ownership, college education, and entrepreneurship as economic paths to success.

The Persuasion Map is an interactive graphic organizer that enables students to map out their arguments for a persuasive essay or debate.