On April 22, 2022, students from Spokane Public Schools, community organizers, and staff from Gonzaga University’s Center for Climate, Society, and the Environment gathered for an Earth Day demonstration. Student involvement in this event was organized by the...
Educators learned why we had such an extreme heat wave this past summer, as they heard from Robin Fox, meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Spokane. Chelsea Freeman teaches high school in Tonasket, an agricultural community hit especially hard by the...
Between 2018 and 2021, Washington State Regional Science Coordinators and a tea of dedicated middle school science teachers engaged in field testing OpenSciEd instructional units to help inform the development of a complete Grades 6-8 open educational resource (OER)....
Following our state’s three year participation in helping develop the nationally recognized Middle School OpenSciEd materials, Washington State high school science teachers are stepping up to aid development of OpenSciEd’s open educational resource...
The Washington state program ClimeTime, which is facilitated by the state’s nine Education Service Districts (ESDs) and community partners, was recently cited as a popular and effective model for educator education in climate science. The Journal of Science Policy and...
Professional learning forms community and educators made connections in more ways than one at the recent Washington Green Schools’ STEM Seminar: Agriculture and Climate Change, which was held over three afternoon sessions in October and November. Twenty-six educators...
High School teachers from Eastern Washington started the new year off with a bang! On January 5th teachers came to learn about the systems and the “Invisible Forest”. The evening started with Anne Thompson. Anne is a Research Assistant Professor in the Biology...
Adults usually try to reduce kids’ screen time, but when COVID-19 closed schools to in-person learning last spring, schools had no choice but to move classes online. With little experience in remote instruction, teachers have been challenged to get kids actively...
Use observable seasonal changes to anchor a Next Generation Science Standards-aligned curriculum that will get your students excited about doing science in their schoolyard. Presenters: Brad Street Description: Incorporating your schoolyard and community into your[...]
Attention K-12 dual language (Spanish) classroom teachers! Description: Join Pacific Education Institute (PEI) and our ClimeTime partners for a deep dive into Food Waste, focusing on the Puget Sound region. Participants will learn about the[...]
Join Pacific Education Institute (PEI) and our ClimeTime partners for a deep dive into Urban Forestry, focusing on the Yakima Valley. Description:Participants will learn about the Urban Forestry Solutions Oriented Learning Storyline, designed around six[...]
Use observable seasonal changes to anchor a Next Generation Science Standards-aligned curriculum that will get your students excited about doing science in their schoolyard. Presenters: Brad Street Description: Incorporating your schoolyard and community into your[...]
After two years of struggle, let’s get students engaged in meaningful academic discourse that tends to Social Emotional Learning (SEL) and equity. Presenters: Lorianne Donovan-Hermann, Becky Neher Description: Science teaching aims to support students of[...]
Come learn with EarthGen in this virtual professional development opportunity designed for teachers in ESD 112. Presenters:Becky Bronstein, Bethany Kogut, Rae Jing Han, Dr. Kat Huybers Description:Through asynchronous and synchronous learning, participants will have a[...]
