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Changing Seasons (K-2)
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This sequence of instruction was developed in the Growing Elementary Science Project to help elementary teachers who were working remotely.  We developed a short storyline that ties together a few sessions to help explore a specific concept.  We tried to include some activities that honored and included the student’s family and experience, and some that included the potential for ELA learning goals.
Students view a couple of videos and record what they notice and wonder about how plants change as seasons change. Students take a walk with family members to search for evidence of changes due to weather in their neighborhoods.
It is part of ClimeTime - a collaboration among all nine Educational Service Districts (ESDs) in Washington and many Community Partners to provide programs for science teacher training around Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) and climate science, thanks to grant money made available to the Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction (OSPI) by Governor Inslee. 

Subject:
Elementary Education
Material Type:
Unit of Study
Author:
Clancy Wolf
Jeff Ryan
Date Added:
08/17/2021
The Climate Collection — Artists for Climate
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A collaboration between TED Countdown and Fine Acts, Artists for Climate started as a global open call that sought digital illustrations targeting climate change, with a focus on hope and solutions.
The artworks you see here have been published online under a Creative Commons license and are available for anyone to use and adapt non-commercially, to help shift the global narrative of the climate crisis towards a brighter future. This hopeful collection is an invaluable resource and tool for educators and organizations from around the world, working towards climate action.

Subject:
Applied Science
Arts and Humanities
Environmental Science
Life Science
Visual Arts
Material Type:
Diagram/Illustration
Author:
Fine Acts
TED Countdown
Date Added:
04/16/2024
Climate Project
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Grounded in the belief that students need to explore climate change for themselves, the high school-level Climate Project course from the OER Project equips students with the knowledge and skills to take action. The course aims to understand the climate crisis by examining facts, impacts, and solutions, fostering civic action, education, and career readiness, and promoting constructive discussion. Through an inquiry-based approach, students interrogate diverse sources, build data and digital literacy skills, and engage with timely materials. Flexible in design, the course can be taught as a comprehensive semester program or through standalone lessons, culminating in projects ranging from climate-focused careers to community civic action.

Subject:
Applied Science
Social Science
Material Type:
Full Course
Lesson
Lesson Plan
Module
Unit of Study
Author:
OER Project
Date Added:
06/05/2024
Climate Science Integration Planning Tools
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In their continued support of climate science education, the Washington State Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction (OSPI) created these resources to support K-12 teachers of all content areas integrate climate science and climate change into their instruction.  

Subject:
Atmospheric Science
Environmental Science
Life Science
Physical Science
Material Type:
Teaching/Learning Strategy
Author:
Lori Henrickson
Ellen Ebert
Washington OSPI OER Project
Johanna Brown
Kimberley Astle
Date Added:
11/17/2022
Climate Science Learning
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ClimeTime is a state-led network for climate science learning that helps teachers and their students understand climate science issues affecting Washington communities.

OSPI manages the network and the grant funding flows through all nine Educational Service Districts (ESDs) in Washington ($3 million) and seven community-based organizations (CBOs) ($1 million) which are launching programs for science teacher training linking Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) and climate science. In addition to teacher professional development, the project supports the 16 grantees to develop instructional materials, design related assessment tasks and evaluation strategies, and facilitate student events.

Subject:
Applied Science
Career and Technical Education
Environmental Science
Environmental Studies
Material Type:
Case Study
Author:
ClimeTime: Climate Science Learning
Date Added:
07/30/2019
Climate, Weather, and Ways We Shelter
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In this 3rd grade integrated STEM Storyline focused around the topics of climate and weather, we present students with the challenge of designing and building prototype temporary shelters for people in need. The unit launches with a discussion about the importance of shelter for humans. Then, students explore the significance of local weather conditions, the local climate, and how these may affect us. Students continue by exploring climate conditions around the world and how people have designed housing that shelters them from daily weather and climate. This unit culminates with students engaging in a design thinking process (similar to engineering design) where they design and test a shelter for people to use.

Subject:
Applied Science
Career and Technical Education
Environmental Science
Environmental Studies
Geology
Life Science
Physical Science
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Author:
Pranjali Upadhyay
Date Added:
10/25/2022
Clime Time ESD 123 Earth Systems and Changes
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Earth Systems and Changes from Educational Service District 123, provides professional learning resources for K-5 teachers around elementary Earth Science and Climate Science related standards content.

It also provides learning to assist in the development of classroom tasks: Claims, Evidence Reasoning, and Models and Explanations, that can be used formatively to elicit student ideas and to support changes in student thinking over time.

License: License: Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY)
Except where otherwise noted, this template by Educational Service District 123 is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License. All logos and trademarks are property of their respective owners. Content within template is the copyright of the creator.

Subject:
Applied Science
Career and Technical Education
Education
Elementary Education
Environmental Science
Environmental Studies
Geology
Life Science
Physical Science
Material Type:
Module
Date Added:
07/25/2019
ClimeTime Resource Portal
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The Washington State Legislature has invested $16 million in climate science education since 2018. This portal contains links to professional learning resources and instructional materials developed by the ClimeTime network of educational partners who came together as a result of this funding. ClimeTime partners provide climate science professional learning to Washington science teachers, using innovative strategies and effective practices. Many projects also create instructional materials aligned with the Next Generation Science Standards, to support student climate science learning.

Subject:
Applied Science
Atmospheric Science
Environmental Science
Environmental Studies
Life Science
Social Science
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Assessment
Lesson
Lesson Plan
Reading
Teaching/Learning Strategy
Author:
Barbara Soots
Washington OSPI OER Project
Ellen Ebert
Kimberley Astle
Elizabeth Schmitz
Johanna Brown
Lori Henrickson
Date Added:
10/27/2021
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.

Subject:
Applied Science
Career and Technical Education
Early Childhood Development
Education
Elementary Education
Environmental Science
Environmental Studies
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Module
Reading
Teaching/Learning Strategy
Author:
Jodi Crimmins
NWESD 189
Date Added:
06/29/2020
Ecosystem Invasion! (3rd Grade Life Science Unit)
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This integrated 3rd grade unit addresses the NGSS Life Science bundles for Interdependent Relationships in Ecosystems (3-LS2-1, 3-LS4-3, and 3-LS4-4) and Inheritance and Variation of Traits: Life Cycles and Traits (3-LS1-1, 3-LS3-1, 3-LS3-2, and 3-LS4-2). Students embark on a mission to protect their native plants and animals by devising a plan to regulate and prevent the spread of invasive species in the area. Through a series of FOSS investigations and other OER (open educational
resource) lessons and activities, students learn about how an organism’s traits aid in survival, how parents pass on traits to their offspring, and how the environment influences plant and animal traits and behaviors.

Subject:
Applied Science
Environmental Science
Life Science
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Author:
Pranjali Upadhyay
Date Added:
01/04/2019
Elementary Assessment - Breathing Easier
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In this task from ClimeTime educators, students will demonstrate understanding of natural resources and their uses with respect to their impact on the Earth. Students will do short explanations, drawing an image, and providing evidence to support an argument.
Resource includes a student task document, teacher guide, and task facilitation slides.

Subject:
Applied Science
Health, Medicine and Nursing
Material Type:
Assessment
Provider:
Washington Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction
Author:
Brianne Caviness
Jeff Ryan
Larissa Threats
Date Added:
05/06/2024
Elementary Assessment - Flooded Playground – Designing Solutions to Flooding Problems
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This task, by ClimeTime educators, is for 4th grade students. After class brainstorm of the causes and effects of flooding on a playground or in a local context, students will generate solutions to the problems related to the flooding. Students will select two solutions to describe how the solutions could be implemented and what factors affect the success of the solutions. Students will describe which of the two solutions they think is best and the reasons for their decision.
The resource includes a student task document, teacher guide, and task facilitation slides.

Subject:
Applied Science
Engineering
Material Type:
Assessment
Provider:
Washington Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction
Author:
Barbara Bromley
Jacob Parikh
Jodi Crimmins
Shelley Boyce
Date Added:
05/06/2024
Elementary Assessment - Growing Plants
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This task, from ClimeTime educators, is for late-elementary (3-5) students, especially while studying about the needs of plants. Students use a simulation to test different variables and explore how different plants have different needs. Then, students connect what they saw in the simulation to plants in their area.
The resource includes a student task document, teacher guide, and task facilitation slides.

Subject:
Life Science
Material Type:
Assessment
Provider:
Washington Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction
Author:
Barbara Bromley
Sarah Neyman
Date Added:
05/06/2024
Elementary Assessment - Patterns in Weather
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Collecting weather data across time supports data collection and analysis practices. Students can use their own data to look for patterns across time. Engaging in this assessment activity, developed by ClimeTime educators, will help students: explain the components that constitute weather and explain that these components change in patterns; describe how various components of weather can be different at different times of the year; explain how changes in the various elements of weather create patterns and influence behavior.
Resource includes a student task document, teacher guide, and task facilitation slides.

Subject:
Life Science
Material Type:
Assessment
Provider:
Washington Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction
Author:
Clancy Wolf
Deb Morrison
Joanne Johnson
Kim Weaver
Date Added:
05/06/2024
Elementary Assessment Task - Weather and Regions
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This task developed by educators in the ClimeTime project, is for third grade students to explore weather data and make predictions about the nature of weather in different seasons based on historical data patterns. Scale is also explored as students are asked to explain the difference between weather and climate so some understanding that climate is weather data collected over time, averaged over decades is needed.
Includes a student task document, teacher guide, and task facilitation slides.

Subject:
Atmospheric Science
Physical Science
Material Type:
Assessment
Provider:
Washington Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction
Author:
Alisa Winkler
ClimeTime: Climate Science Learning
Jeff Ryan
Sarah Neyman
Date Added:
05/06/2024
Elementary Assessment - Trash Talk – Littering Behavior
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This task, by ClimeTime educators, is for 5th grade students. After class discussions about trash, litter, and available programs for recycling and composting, students collect trash and sort it into “recycling,” “food waste/compostable,” and “landfill.” Students learn about littering behaviors. Students incorporate what they have learned to develop an argument using claim, evidence, reasoning.
Resource includes a student task document, teacher guide, and task facilitation slides.

Subject:
Applied Science
Environmental Science
Material Type:
Assessment
Provider:
Washington Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction
Author:
Barbara Bromley
Jacob Parikh
Sarah Neyman
Date Added:
05/06/2024
Elementary Assessment - Washington River Erosion – Dam Removal Impact
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This task, by ClimeTime educators, is for 4th grade students. After class discussions about how dams affect rivers, students analyze aerial photographs of the Elwha River taken just before and at intervals after the removal of the Elwha Dam. Students incorporate what they have learned about erosion to explain the phenomenon of change in the turbidity of the water and structure of the beach at the mouth of the river.
Resource includes a student task document, teacher guide, and task facilitation slides.

Subject:
Hydrology
Physical Science
Material Type:
Assessment
Provider:
Washington Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction
Author:
Brianne Caviness
Larissa Threats
Date Added:
05/06/2024
Elementary Pathway 2
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Salmon play an important role in the ways of life, culture, history, and resilience of the tribes of this region. The tribes of Washington State and the Pacific Northwest have always depended on salmon as a primary source of food. Overfishing, roads, dams, pollution, and other human practices have been a growing threat to the survival of salmon, which has impacted fishing, salmon-eaters, and the environment. These lessons introduce to children the role of salmon in the history and culture of the first peoples of our region.

The Honoring the Salmon lessons are designed to be taught as a series but can also be taught individually, adapted for each grade level, K-3. They can easily be integrated into science units on salmon, water or watersheds. Content knowledge from these lessons can provide background knowledge for 3rd grade and 4th grade Social Studies CBAs.

NOTE: These lessons are designed around fiction and non-fiction books that are not a part of the STI curriculum. Most of them are easily available through public libraries. Some may need to be purchased.

These lesson resources align to additional Washington State Social Studies, English Language Arts, Environmental and Sustainability, and Social Emotional Learning standards. A full standard curriculum document is included at the bottom of the Pathway 2 introduction page.

Subject:
Arts and Humanities
Education
Elementary Education
History
Material Type:
Lesson
Author:
OSPI Office of Native Education
Date Added:
02/01/2022
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.

Subject:
Environmental Science
Life Science
Material Type:
Teaching/Learning Strategy
Author:
Barbara Soots
Ellen Ebert
Georgia Boatman
Kimberley Astle
Washington OSPI OER Project
Date Added:
07/21/2020