This interview between California Association of Science Educators (CASE) and Karen Cowe, Ten Strands CEO and California Environmental Literacy Initiative project director, originally appeared on the CASE website and was republished with permission. Tell us about Ten Strands and the...
Environmental issues lend themselves to cross-disciplinary integrative learning and science teachers are central to the effort to bring environmental literacy to every California child. . . . At the heart of this broader integrative effort is three-dimensional science learning (NGSS)...
This week we are sharing a story originally published by the California Association of Science Educators written by Juanita Chan and Lizbeth Mariscal of Rialto Unified School District about the importance of environmental education amidst the uncertainty of the global...
Trena Noval and Ana Raquel Thomas, co-founders of The Creativity Lab, are featured in an article focused on a classroom approach to connecting the environment, racial justice, and creativity.
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For the last 15 years, we have collaborated to create standards-aligned integrated learning models for environmental literacy and the arts in order to support issues of justice. Using these models in the classroom has ignited our students’ imaginations. In early...
Environmental justice IS community building. They go hand in hand. And when we include all people and perspectives, we bring creativity and learning to our practice and world. ~Our Changing Planet teacher At 22, our first US Youth Poet Laureate,...
This week we are sharing an article written by Constance Moore and Trena Noval, co-leaders of Our Changing Planet, a district-wide project of Alameda Unified School District for teacher professional development in environmental literacy, justice, and creativity.
... This week we are sharing an article written by Ed Lyon, California Association of Science Educators’ four-year college director, about the 2019 climate summit where K–12 educators gained valuable professional learning to teach about climate change in their classrooms.
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On October 17, 2019, over 100 educators from across California gathered to kick off the annual California Association of Science Educators (CASE) California Science Education Conference in San Jose with the Climate Summit Pre-Conference Day. This event was brought back...
Looking at the seventh-grade standards for history–social science (HSS), it is easy to have a panic attack. How is it possible to teach almost 1,500 years of history over five continents in ten months? This has been an ongoing struggle...
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