Students will discover the carbon component in soils, the role carbon plays in soil health, and the role that regenerative agriculture practices play in soil health and climate change.
Sea level is rising due to climate changes that result from increased emissions of greenhouse gases. In this storyline, students will explore mechanisms of sea level rise and the impacts on Indigenous peoples along with other groups such as urban communities. Natural hazards such as erosion, storm surges, and flooding are intensified by sea level rise. The effects on natural resources, the economies built from those natural resources, and land usage in general can be predicted by utilizing current and historical data.
Los incendios forestales son un factor que contribuye a las emisiones de gases de efecto invernadero. Los científicos estiman que los incendios forestales emitieron 8 mil millones de toneladas de CO2 por año durante los últimos 20 años. Los incendios forestales tienen riesgos y beneficios que afectan a los seres humanos. En este caso, los estudiantes aprenderán sobre los riesgos y beneficios de los incendios forestales, la ciencia detrás de cómo ocurren los incendios y las condiciones que hacen que un incendio sea catastrófico. Los estudiantes evaluarán los incendios locales / regionales para determinar cómo las actividades humanas contribuyen a los incendios forestales. Los estudiantes investigarán cómo se toman las decisiones de manejo forestal para disminuir los impactos negativos de los incendios forestales y disminuir la cantidad de CO2 que se emite por esos incendios.
El desperdicio de comida es un contribuyente mayor a los gases de efecto invernadero. La comida desperdiciada y los recursos usados en su producción son responsables por aproximadamente 8% de las emisiones globales de gases de efecto invernadero. En este caso, los estudiantes aprenderán sobre los recursos requeridos para producir comida siguiendo el ciclo del carbón y descubrirán cómo el desperdicio de comida contribuye al cambio climático. También aprenderán sobre la cadena de transporte de la granja a la mesa y cómo conducir una auditoría de desperdicio de comida. Finalmente, investigarán soluciones al problema de desperdicio de comida que pueden aplicar a sus propias vidas, su escuela y su comunidad.
Solar energy in the form of light is available to organisms on Earth in abundance. Natural systems and other organisms have structures that function in ways to manage the interaction with and use of this energy. In this storyline, students will explore how light energy interacts with materials and how light energy can be transformed into energy for heating and cooling. Students design a solar water heater and explore how products like this can reduce carbon emissions to mitigate climate change.
Urban forests provide many benefits to a community and can minimize the human impact on the environment. Students will explore the impacts an urban community has on the environment. Students will discover the role trees play in an urban community and how trees can affect the ecosystem, human wellbeing, and provide economic value. Students will explore Indigenous relationships with trees. During the course of this storyline, students will measure and monitor urban forest ecosystem benefits, perform a field investigation, and design a development to minimize negative environmental impacts
Coastal wetlands bring many benefits to ecosystems including their ability to sequester carbon and mitigate fluctuations in sea levels. Students will understand the ecosystem benefits of coastal wetlands with a focus on the potential of estuaries for climate related planning.
Utilizando materiales que ellos mismos prueban, los estudiantes disenan un refugio lo suficientemente grande para que quepa un sapo de origamia y se mantenga seco durante la lluvia. Los estudiantes proyectan sus planos, construyen y hacen pruebas de materiales.
Se introduce a los estudiantes al fenomeno de las hojas que cambian de color en el otono. En estas tres lecciones los estudiantes observan hojas y las separan por sus caracteristicas para aprender a identificar el arbol de donde provienen.
Los estudiantes exploran la conexion entre la temperatura de los suelos y la germinacion de las semillas.
Students design, using materials they tested, a dwelling large enough to fit an origami frog and keep it dry in the rain. Student draft plans, build, test, and optimize their solutions to the question, “how do you build a natural toad abode?"
Students are introduced to the phenomenon of leaves changing color in the fall. In these three lessons students, 1) observe leaves and sort them by their characteristic to explore the concept that trees’ leaves have unique characteristics that help identify the tree and are inherited from their parent tree
Students explore the connection between soil temperature and seed germination (sprouting).
Los estudiantes descubriran las condiciones necesarias para la vida de las plantas y los animales, incluyendo seres humanos.
Students will hone their intuitive sense of biology and in the process discover what conditions are required for life. Students will also investigate how sunlight impacts the temperature of surfaces. Finally, students will engineerand test a shelter that can change a surface’s temperature to make it more compatible with apotential schoolyard creature.
In this eight-lesson unit, students explore cultural connections with the sun, learn about light and discover how light interacts with other materials through hands-on activities, literacy integration, and engineering.
The Solutions Oriented Learning Storylines (SOLS) project from Pacific Education Institute is designed to strengthen teachers' equitable climate science instruction through locally relevant storylines. This visual menu links to all the available 3-5 lessons. See the individual lessons for standards alignment.
The Solutions Oriented Learning Storylines (SOLS) project from Pacific Education Institute is designed to strengthen teachers' equitable climate science instruction through locally relevant storylines. This visual menu links to all the available K-2 lessons. See the individual lessons for standards alignment.