Resources
Lesson Resources
Unit 2 – Watersheds
Unit 3 – Waste
Unit 4 – Erosion and Runoff
- Data Sheet for Water Quality Testing
- Water Quality Jeopardy
- Suck It Up
- Water Quality Index Parameters
- Water Quality Investigation
- Water Quality – Up a Creek
- Soil Study
Unit 5 – Biodiversity
- Eat Like a Bird
- Ecosystem Food Web Mural
Unit 6 – Issue Investigation and Action Projects
- Home Challenges
- Issue Investigation
- Schoolyard Cleanup
- Schoolyard Garden
Other Institute Resources
- Grants
- Green Schools
- Outdoor Lessons
- Gr K Nesting Word Problems
- Gr 1 Life Cycle
- Gr 3 Die and Decay
- Gr 3 Fractions
- Gr 3 Natural Resources
- Gr 3 Traditions
- Gr 3 Worms
- Gr 4 Composting
- Gr 4 Fractions
- Gr 4 Informational Paragraph
- Gr 4 Rocks
- Gr 4 Tall Tales
- Gr 5 Energy in Ecosystems
- Gr 5 RLA Descriptive Writing
- Gr 5 Winter Adaptations
- Gr 5 Winter Poems
- PowerPoint Timers
- Project Lessons
- Rain Barrel
- Book List
- Chesapeake Natives
- No Mow Brochure
- Creating a Schoolyard Tree Nursery
- Ornithology Resources
- Rain Gardens
- Rain Garden Handbook
- Rubrics for Assessing Student Achievement
- Engaging Students in STEM
- Useful Websites
- Where the Wild Things Are: Using Nature to Build Living & Learning Skills
Student Sheets
- Appendix – Illustrated Glossary
- Unit 2 – Watersheds
- Unit 3 – Waste
- Composting
- Take Out the Trash
- Trash Tally
- Vermicomposting
- Summative Activity – Rethink, Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
- Student Introduction to Waste Management
- Unit 4 – Erosion and Runoff
- Bernie’s Toes
- Designing a Schoolyard
- Does Your Soil Perc
- Sediment – Choking the Life Out of the Bay
- Soil Study
- Water Quality Testing
- Student Introduction to Runoff
- Unit 5 – Ecosystem Diversity
- Animal Adaptations Field Study
- Ecosystem Food Web Mural
- Frankenfish Adaptation Cards
- Let’s Take a Dip
- Macroinvertebrate Field Study
- Eat Like a Bird Data Sheet
- Student Introduction to Ecosystem Diversity
Other Resources
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