Specific to California

DellaRobertson — Fri, 25 Jan 2019 18:20:44 GMT

Hello, all. I promised Charlie I would post my idea/question to Geonet. This was a couple of months ago. When I received the email about staying current in using geonet to avoid being "deactivated", I thought I better begin now and come back to it later.

California has adopted NGSS (Next Generation Science Standards). Our district adopted the middle school integrated model which is divided into 4 Instructional Segments (IS) at each of the three grade levels: 6, 7 and 8.

The fourth Instructional Segment (IS 4) in all three grade levels is focused on the environment:

Grade 6 :

IS 4 “Human Activities can change the amount of global warming, which impacts plants and animals”

https://www.californiaeei.org/curriculum/unit?unitid=66

EEI Curriculum and resources for “The Greenhouse Effect on Natural Systems”

Grade 7:

IS 4 “Human Activities Help Sustain Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services in a Changing World”

https://www.californiaeei.org/curriculum/unit?unitid=62

EEI Curriculum and resources for “Ecosystem Change in California”

Grade 8:

IS 4 “Sustaining Local and Global Biodiversity”

https://www.californiaeei.org/curriculum/unit?unitid=61

EEI Curriculum and resources for “Biodiversity: The Keystone to Life on Earth”

We are using curriculum from California's Education and the Environment Initiative (EEI) to teach IS 4 in all three grades.

A colleague of mine and I will be training teachers in EEI. My thought is that someone may be interested in creating Geoinquiries that are focused on the Instructional Segment for each of the 3 grade levels. I believe teachers would be interested in using those specific Geoinquiries.

What are your thoughts?

Before January concludes, Happy New Year to all!

Re: Specific to California

TomBaker — Mon, 04 Feb 2019 21:24:56 GMT

Hi Della,

Intersting idea! I will follow up with you via email to sort out some possibilities. Thanks for the post!

Tom

Re: Specific to California

DellaRobertson — Sun, 17 Feb 2019 05:19:15 GMT

Tom,

I look forward to your email.

Thank you.

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