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EEI Environmental Literacy Institute: Teaching Across Disciplines

Posted By  Juliana Liebke
  • ON September 18, 2018

I am a proud new member of the elite Teacher Ambassador team for the California Education and the Environment Initiative (EEI), a statewide program to make environmental literacy an integral part of K–12 instruction. A major part of the initiative...

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Teaching Climate Science to Empower Students and Create Positive Change

Posted By  Jill Grace
  • ON August 30, 2018

As teachers dig deeper into the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) and move past the newness of the three dimensions, there’s something beautiful that begins to illuminate. It becomes immediately apparent there are strong connections between the standards and science...

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Addressing Real-World, Local, Environmental Problems: San Mateo Environmental Learning Collaborative

Posted By  Antonia Smith
  • ON August 13, 2018

The unit that we are making and the units other teams are making are so rich. I love that they address real-world, local, environmental problems, and that they include elements of project-based learning. It makes me happy to think about...

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Exploring Climate Change And Taking Action Using A Geo-Inquiry Process

Posted By  Laura McHugh
  • ON July 17, 2018

Students at Foulks Ranch Elementary School, with teacher and National Geographic Education Fellow Jim Bentley, completed the final phase of their Geo-Inquiry project to address the question, “How can we make water more accessible and reduce plastic waste in our...

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A Transformative Experience: Students and Nature

Posted By  Dr. Al Mijares
  • ON July 2, 2018

Outside the urban glare of Los Angeles, we found a night sky packed with stars and a still silence interrupted only by the wind’s whisper and the chatter of crickets and frogs. It was different, yet familiar. My father packed...

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Nature Journals: Science, Design, Calculations, and Curiosity

Posted By  Jeanne Knapp
  • ON June 15, 2018

Let’s think about life and learning. Journals are perhaps the most grounded (literally and figuratively!) tool we have for relationship building in life and for learning. Elegant, simple by design and accessible, nature journals are adaptive, easily created, inclusive, and...

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A Ten Strands Field Trip to Dixie Elementary

Posted By  Antonia Smith
  • ON June 5, 2018

It is a beautiful Friday morning in May when Ten Strands team members Karen Cowe, Ariel Whitson, Mike Howe, and I arrive at Dixie Elementary School in San Rafael, California. After gathering in front of the school’s jungle gym playground,...

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Planting the Seeds of Environmental Literacy with School Districts Through a Science Leadership Network

Posted By  Mary Walls
  • ON May 10, 2018

Region 10 of the California Regional Environmental Education Community (CREEC) Network is massive. It encompasses all of what is affectionately called RIMS: Riverside, Inyo, Mono, and San Bernardino counties, almost a quarter of the state’s geographic area. Expanding the work...

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Reflections on the Alameda Elementary Environmental Literacy Summer Institute 2017

Posted By  Betsy Mitchell , Joanna Totino
  • ON March 5, 2018

“This was a wonderful week—fun balanced with lots of things to take away and try with my kids … a much deeper appreciation of environmental literacy.” The first of three planned Elementary Environmental Literacy Summer Institutes was presented to K–5...

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Why I Teach About Birds

Posted By  Darrell Steely
  • ON January 22, 2018

ALSO READ: Fun Family Activity-Attracting Hummingbirds from Porch.com “No one will protect what they don’t care about; and no one will care about what they have never experienced” ― David Attenborough “Can you see the small gray bird on the...

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