We Are All Connected


“We Are


All Connected” is a series that explores how we all live together in a shared balance upon Mother Earth. Each book explores a specific


ecosystem with a focus on one animal and its adaptations for survival within that ecosystem. Indigenous interviewees, each living within the same area, have respond- ed to strategic questions as to how their community interacts with the land, their traditional territory. Explore each text with a sense of inquiry in mind.


We Are All Connected Titles: • Coast Salish, Coastal Rainforests and Cougars • Haisla, Rivers and Chinook Salmon • Inuit, Tundra and Ravens


• Lakota, Mixed Grasslands and Bald Eagles • Métis, Wetlands and Mallards • Nisga’a, Ponds and Leopard Frogs • Nlaka’pamux, Grasslands and Rattlesnakes • Sto:lo, Riparian Forests and Black Bears


Each title covers: —Traditional storytelling and artwork begin each title from the focus Indigenous territory.


—Science: Biodiversity, classification, life cycles, food chains, food webs and connections between living and non-living things are just some of the science concepts included in each book.


—Social Studies: Contemporary and historical Indigenous cultural knowledge flows throughout each book. Local land forms, gatherings, harvesting practices and government are some of the social studies concepts included in each book. To learn more, visit the Strong Nations website at https://www.strongnations.com/


Tools for Ambitious Science Teaching provides a “vision of ambitious science instruction for elementary, middle school and high school classrooms.” Ambitious teaching is defined as teaching that “deliberately aims to support students of all backgrounds to deeply understand science ideas, participate in the activities of the discipline, and solve authentic problems.” Info at https://ambitiousscienceteaching.org/


CLEARING Spring 2018 cienceteaching.org/


Surrounded by Science


If you’ve been


following CLEARING for any time, you will know that Jim Martin has been writing a regular series on finding science curriculum in the world around them. This downloadable collection of lesson plans and curriculum guides from the National Environmental Education Foundation (NEEF) is designed to help educators introduce students to some of the many ways they can discover more of the science going on around them, both within the classroom and in the field.


https://www.neefusa.org/resource/surrounded- science-educator-toolkit


New and Improved BEETLES BEETLES


(Better Environmental Education, Teaching, Learning, and Expertise Sharing)has


launched a new website (at the same ol’ address: beetlesproject.org). BEETLES is devoted to infusing outdoor science programs with research-based approaches and tools to improve science teaching and learning. Resources include:


• versatile environmental education professional learning materials;


• student activities for use in the field.


Grades 6-8 and 9-12


EarthEcho International’s Educator Resource


EarthEcho International’s Educator


Resources include free videos, lesson plans, and other materials intended to support classroom learning for grades 6-8 and 9-12. Their tools assist educators in teaching students to explore and protect local natural resources. Many of the resources offered by EarthEcho are designed to satisfy Common Core and Next Generation Science Standards.


http://earthecho.org/educator-resources


New “Teaching with i-Tree” Curriculum from PLT


Project Learn-


ing Tree (PLT), in collaboration with the U.S. Forest Service, has produced Teaching with i-Tree a curriculum designed to engage middle and high school students in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) as they calculate the economic and environmental benefits of trees. Students input data they collect into a free online tool to calculate the dollar value of the benefits provided by a tree, or a set of trees.


The activities can be used in formal


classroom settings or with non-formal groups, such as scouts and students en- rolled in afterschool programs. Learn more and download at https:// www.plt.org/news/teaching-with-itree/.


Zooniverse is the world’s largest platform for people-powered research. This


website provides opportunities for individuals and classrooms to volunteer to as- sist professional researchers on a variety of topics including biology, climate, space, social science, physics, history and more. Zooniverse research has resulted in new discoveries, datasets useful to the wider research community, and publications of research. Zooniverse also offers the option to build new projects that volunteers around the world can connect and assist in.


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