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Reflections on the 2018 CA STEAM Symposium
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In October, the CA STEAM (Science Technology Engineering Art Math) Symposium was held in Long Beach, CA. Leaders from two school districts and one county office of education presented on behalf of the California Environmental Literacy Initiative. Their session entitled...
December 2018 Newsletter
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There are 6.2 million reasons why Ten Strands is focused on bringing environmental literacy into every classroom in California—that’s the number of K–12 public school students in our state. Here are the top ten headlines from 2018 that we hope...
NOAA Ocean Guardian Schools Help Protect Sanctuary Resources
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This article originally appeared on the National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) website, and was republished with permission. Adorned with garden gloves and reusable water bottles, the students of Gault Elementary School have been walking the one-mile journey to Seabright...
Sharing District Partnership Strategies at the NAAEE Conference
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The theme of the North American Association for Environmental Education (NAAEE) conference held in Spokane, Washington was, “Environmental Education: A Force for the Future.” The community that was built during the conference of over 1,300 formal educators, professors, environmental educators,...
A Vision for Green Schoolyards Across California
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This interview originally appeared in Green Technology Magazine and was republished with permission. Sharon Danks describes the benefits that transforming schoolyards as public resources can bring to students, teachers, and communities. I was wondering if you can tell me what...
This is Environmental Literacy: Rialto
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The Wigwam Motel is a horseshoe-shaped collection of nineteen stucco structures fashioned after teepees located on a stretch of historic Route 66 in Rialto, California. The final installment of designer Frank Redford’s Wigwam Villages (there were seven, three remain), built...
Equity in a Time of Socio-Environmental Justice
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This article was republished with permission and originally appeared in California Classroom Science (CCS), an e-newsletter produced by the California Science Teachers Association (CSTA). Last month I had the opportunity to represent CSTA at the Global Climate Action Summit in...
Connecting Curriculum and Standards to Teach About Healthy Habitats (part 1)
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I have always loved science and the outdoors. Prior to becoming a classroom teacher, I worked as an outdoor educator and had the pleasure of hiking through the redwoods with groups of fifth and sixth grade students. I majored in...