Earth & Space Science, ESS1: Earth's Place in the Universe, ESS1.B: Earth and the Solar System, ESS2: Earth's Systems, ESS2.A: Earth Materials and Systems, ESS2.C: The Roles of Water in Earth’s Surface Processes, ESS2.D: Weather and Climate, ESS3: Earth and Human Activity, ESS3.A: Natural Resources, ESS3.B: Natural Hazards, ESS3.C: Human Impacts on Earth Systems, ESS3.D: Global Climate Change, Life Science, LS2: Ecosystems: Interactions, Energy, and Dynamics, LS4: Biological Evolution: Unity and Diversity, LS4.D: Biodiversity and Humans, Physical Science, PS1: Matter and Its Interactions, PS3: Energy
Climate Change, Climate Justice + Sustainability lesson plans and supporting resources: Free lesson plans and supporting resources from the Bay Area Environmental-STEM Institute (BAESI) Green Ninja Curriculum (NGSS-approved for middle school; project-based approach)...
Earth & Space Science, ESS2: Earth's Systems, ESS2.B: Plate Tectonics and Large-Scale System Interactions, ESS2.D: Weather and Climate, ESS3: Earth and Human Activity, ESS3.C: Human Impacts on Earth Systems, ESS3.D: Global Climate Change, Life Science, LS2: Ecosystems: Interactions, Energy, and Dynamics, LS4.D: Biodiversity and Humans, Physical Science, PS1: Matter and Its Interactions, PS3: Energy, PS4: Waves
BAESI is developing a series of lesson plans designed to help teachers integrate climate change and other Earth science concepts with the other sciences. Part of our motivation stems from a desire to help high school teachers integrate these critically important...
Earth & Space Science, ESS2.D: Weather and Climate, ESS3: Earth and Human Activity, ESS3.A: Natural Resources, ESS3.C: Human Impacts on Earth Systems, ESS3.D: Global Climate Change, Life Science, LS2: Ecosystems: Interactions, Energy, and Dynamics, LS4: Biological Evolution: Unity and Diversity, LS4.D: Biodiversity and Humans
BAESI’s new “Pika Models + Climate Change” lesson plans are adapted from the 2016 Science Framework for California Public Schools (pp. 839-841). Students explore the life of pikas, tiny mammals that live in alpine areas, and how they are being...
Life Science, LS4: Biological Evolution: Unity and Diversity, LS4.D: Biodiversity and Humans
This group activity analyzes common views about science. Teaching the Nature of Science (.PDF) BAESI Nature of Science Handout (.DOC) Card Exchange Statements and Categories – to Print (.DOC) Nature of Science activity...
Earth & Space Science, ESS2: Earth's Systems, ESS2.A: Earth Materials and Systems, ESS2.C: The Roles of Water in Earth’s Surface Processes, ESS2.D: Weather and Climate, ESS2.E: Biogeology, ESS3: Earth and Human Activity, ESS3.A: Natural Resources, ESS3.B: Natural Hazards, ESS3.C: Human Impacts on Earth Systems, ESS3.D: Global Climate Change, Life Science, LS2: Ecosystems: Interactions, Energy, and Dynamics, LS4: Biological Evolution: Unity and Diversity, LS4.D: Biodiversity and Humans, Physical Science, PS1: Matter and Its Interactions, PS3: Energy, PS4: Waves
California Education and the Environment Initiative is free, state-sponsored K-12 curriculum that teaches science and history-social science standards through an environmental...
Earth & Space Science, ESS2: Earth's Systems, ESS2.C: The Roles of Water in Earth’s Surface Processes, ESS2.D: Weather and Climate, ESS3: Earth and Human Activity, ESS3.A: Natural Resources, ESS3.B: Natural Hazards, ESS3.C: Human Impacts on Earth Systems, ESS3.D: Global Climate Change, LS2: Ecosystems: Interactions, Energy, and Dynamics, LS4: Biological Evolution: Unity and Diversity, LS4.D: Biodiversity and Humans
K-12 standards-aligned curriculum on global sustainability. Facing the Future: Global Sustainability...
Earth & Space Science, ESS2.D: Weather and Climate, ESS3.A: Natural Resources, ESS3.C: Human Impacts on Earth Systems, ESS3.D: Global Climate Change, Life Science, LS2: Ecosystems: Interactions, Energy, and Dynamics, LS4.D: Biodiversity and Humans, Physical Science, PS3: Energy
The Green Education Foundation (GEF) is a national non-profit that offers challenges, lessons, and activities for K-12 on sustainability in all subjects including science, math, and language arts....
Earth & Space Science, ESS2: Earth's Systems, ESS2.C: The Roles of Water in Earth’s Surface Processes, ESS2.D: Weather and Climate, ESS3: Earth and Human Activity, Life Science, LS4.D: Biodiversity and Humans
The Encyclopedia of Earth is a wonderful reference from the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society. For example, it has an excellent section on Biodiversity and many other topics in life science. The Encyclopedia of Earth is affiliated with The Encyclopedia...
