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LESSON PLANS: GRADES 3-5

BIG ideas: linking food, culture, health, and the environment

2/28/2016

 
National Geographic Education and The Center for Ecoliteracy have created BIG IDEAS: Linking Food, Culture, Health, and the Environment. The BIG IDEAS 3-5 Guide helps teachers to lead conversations with students about the linkages between the food we eat, the ways that culture shapes our food choices and behaviors, the relationship between food and our health, and the interconnections between our food systems and the environment.

To facilitate incorporating these themes, this publication identifies key “big ideas” that link food, culture, health, and the environment and demonstrates how they align with the following new academic standards:
  • Common Core State Standards
  • Next Generation Science Standards: Crosscutting Concepts
  • College, Career, and Civic Life Standards for Social Studies (also known as C3)
  • National Health Education Standards
  • California Nutrition Competencies (from Nutrition Education Resource Guide for California Public Schools,
  • Kindergarten Through Grade Twelve)

earth's freshwater

2/28/2016

 
National Geographic Education has produced Earth's Freshwater: A Guide for Teaching Freshwater in Grades 3 to 8. Chapter topics include:
  1. Biodiversity in Freshwater
  2. Water Cycle and Water Reservoirs
  3. Changing Natural Flows of Water
  4. Water Quality in Freshwater Systems
  5. Water Concerns for Wildlife and Humans
  6. Water and Human Communities
  7. Water Solutions for Our Future
The full teacher guide is available for download. Videos accompany each chapter, also.

boston school forest curricula for grades 3-5

2/28/2016

 
The Boston School Forest provides an outdoor classroom for the Stevens Point Area Public School District in Wisconsin. The forest is located in Plover, Wisconsin. The school district offers downloadable standards-based curricula for grades 3-5 for instruction in a school forest.

connecting with nature: an educational guide for grades four to six

2/18/2016

 
The David Suzuki Foundation is a science-based organization committed to helping Canadians act on the understanding that people are all interconnected and interdependent with nature — and each other. Connecting With Nature: An Educational Guide for Grades Four to Six provides cross-curricular lesson plans for classroom and outdoor experiences that link children with nature. The 2014 guide was created and written by staff from the David Suzuki Foundation and the Schulich School of Education at Nipissing University. The 176-page guide includes 16 lesson plans, an assessment overview, a technology overview, an arts rubric, an oral communication rubric, and many other resources. The lessons are:
  • Walkabout
  • Barnyard in my classroom
  • Who is David Suzuki?
  • Living within the limits of nature
  • Classroom landfill
  • The powerful pollinators
  • Celebrating biodiversity
  • Gone with the wind
  • In limbo
  • Down the drain
  • Getting there
  • What's inside your personal care products?
  • Round the year
  • Where's the beef?
  • Greenbelt game show
  • A celebration of nature
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David Suzuki Foundation, and Schulich School of Education, Nipissing University. Connecting with Nature: An Educational Guide for Grades Four to Six. Vancouver, BC: David Suzuki Foundation, 2014. PDF.

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    This section contains a variety of lesson plans for grades 3-5.

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