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Early Learning Climate Science (Pre K-K) Canvas Commons

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In the 2018-2019 school year, Northwest Educational Service District 189 brought together a design team of six Pre Kindergarten - Kindergarten educators through a ClimeTime grant to find play-based, and engaging ways to teach climate science to early learners. This course shares out the findings of the team, including some work around designing for equity and 3-Dimensional Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) alignment. You will engage in activities to use with students including a puddle walk, soil permeability tests, and lesson examples. Phenomenon based lessons will be shared as well as a list of resources and recommended books compiled by our design team.

Material Type: Activity/Lab, Module, Reading, Teaching/Learning Strategy

Authors: Jodi Crimmins, NWESD 189

Climate Educator Book Club: Guidance on how to create a flexible book club for educators

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This resource shares all of the documents and planning guidance for the Washington Climate Educator Book Club, which is part of the greater ClimeTime community.  The Book Club’s book study is designed to flexibly support teams of interdisciplinary K–12 educators, from schools and districts across Washington, to explore ways climate education can be integrated into all classrooms.

Material Type: Full Course

Author: Lori Henrickson

Beyond Classroom Walls: Module 2

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This is module 2 of the Beyond Classroom Walls professional learing course from Puget Sound Educational Service District in Washington state.In this course, teachers will learn how to intentionally connect students, families, and community knowledge and practices to scientific concepts. Making these connections visible is critical for effective and equitable science learning experiences.

Material Type: Full Course, Lesson, Lesson Plan, Module, Teaching/Learning Strategy, Unit of Study

Authors: Lisa Monroe, Washington OSPI OER Project

Beyond Classroom Walls: Module 3

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This is module 3 of the Beyond Classroom Walls professional learing course from Puget Sound Educational Service District in Washington state.In this course, teachers will learn how to intentionally connect students, families, and community knowledge and practices to scientific concepts. Making these connections visible is critical for effective and equitable science learning experiences.

Material Type: Full Course, Lesson, Module, Teaching/Learning Strategy, Unit of Study

Authors: Lisa Monroe, Washington OSPI OER Project

Beyond Classroom Walls: Module 4

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This is module 4 of the Beyond Classroom Walls professional learing course from Puget Sound Educational Service District in Washington state.In this course, teachers will learn how to intentionally connect students, families, and community knowledge and practices to scientific concepts. Making these connections visible is critical for effective and equitable science learning experiences.

Material Type: Full Course, Lesson, Module, Teaching/Learning Strategy, Unit of Study

Authors: Lisa Monroe, Washington OSPI OER Project

Online Course: Creating Resources for Equitable At-Home Science Learning

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This online course explores together with teachers how we can provide students equitable place-based home science learning during the time of COVID-19. We examine guidelines and discuss various approaches, then collaborate together to share, develop and adapt short and simple science activities that could be done by students in their yard, neighborhood, or a deck, window, or balcony. The course includes an introductory session, two small groups sessions to develop or adapt class and age appropriate materials and a final session for groups to share what they developed and explore additional topics.

Material Type: Full Course

Author: Brad Street

Climate Justice League Professional Development Template

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This resource is a professional development template for facilitating a hybrid professional learning community for educators. Through a combination of in-person gatherings, Zoom sessions, and asynchronous activities, teachers learn about climate justice and environmental justice topics that are relevant in their communities. They learn and collaborate with their peers in the CJL and are supported to design and implement a community action project with their students. This professional learning community was designed and facilitated in partnership with Stacy Meyer and Educational Service District 112.In this template, presenters can reference an outline of the learning experience. In addition, feel free to review "Climate Justice League - Community Action Project Examples" to get a sense of the types of projects that teachers implement, or to check out "Climate Justice Gallery Walk" as a sample learning activity. We encourage you to adapt the structure and content to fit the needs of educators you support, especially by incorporating locally relevant resources and examples!

Material Type: Module

Authors: Becky Bronstein, EarthGen Washington

Sample Permissions Request Letter

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If there is a resource you would like to use in your OER project that is not openly licensed, in the public domain, or usable under fair use, permission from the copyright holder is required. Here is some sample wording for that permissions request. Please adapt as suits your situation.Cover mage by Andrew Lloyd Gordon from Pixabay 

Material Type: Teaching/Learning Strategy

Author: Barbara Soots

Elementary Science and Integrated Subjects - TEMPLATE

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Template developed by the Washington Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction (OSPI) ClimeTime grantees.This format is designed to be an example of how to develop a coherent lesson or suite of lessons that integrate other content areas such as English Language Arts, Mathematics and other subjects into science learning for students.

Material Type: Teaching/Learning Strategy

Authors: Barbara Soots, Ellen Ebert, Georgia Boatman, Kimberley Astle, Washington OSPI OER Project

Washington OER Hub - Submission Guidelines and Quality Review Criteria

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This document provides background on how resources are submitted to Groups, reviewed, and filtered into Learning Collections on the Washington OER Hub. The criteria are designed to be adapted for any content area to evaluate lessons that may extend over a few periods or days or units that include integrated and focused lessons. The criteria are NOT designed to evaluate a single task or stand-alone activity.

Material Type: Teaching/Learning Strategy

Authors: Barbara Soots, Washington OSPI OER Project

Interdisciplinary Models for Climate Science Integration

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In their continued support of climate science education, the Washington State Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction (OSPI) created these sample bundles of Washington State Learning Standards from multiple content areas that teachers could use to center their classroom instruction around climate change and climate science. 

Material Type: Teaching/Learning Strategy

Authors: Lori Henrickson, Ellen Ebert, Kimberley Astle, Johanna Brown, Washington OSPI OER Project

Community-Centered Climate Action Course (for 3-5 Educators)

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This Professional Development course sets up teachers and students to use the perimeter of their school to inquire about and monitor air quality as well as learn about emissions and activism in their community.Did you know idling cars during school pickup impacts air quality and the environment? Learn how to use an easy-to-implement action project to motivate and empower your students. Your students will build an understanding of how air pollution impacts their community and the climate and learn what community members are doing about it. They will then work together to map their findings, develop an action plan and share what they have learned.Learn how the Next Generation Science Standards Engineering Design Process and Social Studies standards can be an integral part of students working on real-world problems.Explore the social-emotional side of climate change and how direct action can foster resilience and environmental justice.Collaborate with teachers from across the region to have a collective impact on air quality and the environment.#climate science #islandwood (already searchable on text)

Material Type: Lesson, Lesson Plan, Module, Teaching/Learning Strategy, Unit of Study

Authors: Vera Schoepe, Brad Street, Washington OSPI OER Project

Youth Fellowship - A Template for Supporting Youth Action

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An important need in climate education is to include youth voices in the planning and development of climate science education programs across Washington. EarthGen’s Youth Fellowship hosts a small group of high school students in service to this need.  Fellows complete approximately 50 hours of training, research, and implementation over the course of the school year. In the first part of their fellowship, youth receive approximately 20 hours of training about climate change and climate justice in asynchronous and synchronous formats. During the second part of their fellowship, the youth develop a research question and collect data on what students across Washington would like to see included in climate science education. Data collection includes focus groups, interviews, and surveys. At the culmination of the experience, Youth Fellows analyze their findings and share their results in a creative format. Each youth has an adult sponsor to support their work and are awarded a stipend.  

Material Type: Teaching/Learning Strategy

Author: EarthGen Washington

Climate Justice Book Group - Instructional Template

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This resource is a professional development template for facilitating synchronous learning for educators based on shared reading of a book. This template showcases a book group focused on the essay anthology All We Can Save. Teachers read sections of the book in preparation for each of the four sessions, with the option to focus on specific chapters. Each session addresses a key theme through open-ended discussion prompts and an arts-based storytelling activity. In this template, presenters can reference a sample agenda for a book group session, including example prompts that were provided to participating teachers. We encourage you to adapt the structure and content to fit the needs of educators you support!

Material Type: Module

Author: EarthGen Washington

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