Apr 18, 2019 | WA Green Schools
On April 18th, 2019, the team at Washington Green Schools hosted their latest in a series of Climate Science STEM Seminars. This session focused on the relationship between agriculture and the changing climate and was hosted at the Windy Hills Winery in Ridgefield,...
Mar 29, 2019 | PSESD, WA Green Schools
In late March, a dozen teachers from Puget Sound ESD gathered at the Tacoma Nature Center to learn about how human health is impacted by climate change locally. After grappling with some of the latest data on regional air quality and climate change, teachers engaged...
Mar 22, 2019 | PSESD, WA Green Schools
In ESD 121, on March 22, 2019, fourteen teachers gathered at the WSU Stormwater Center to learn about how climate is impacting floods and droughts in the region. Teachers received a tour of the campus fish lab where scientists explore the impact of stormwater...
Mar 20, 2019 | Capital Region ESD 113, WA Green Schools
In ESD 113, on March 20th, 23 teachers learned about the climate impacts to keystone species like salmon and orcas. They read an article on the salmon/orca relationship, explored relevant data, and heard from Climate Change Coordinator for the Dept. of Fish and...
Mar 13, 2019 | ESD 123, WA Green Schools
20 K-12 teachers and Informal Science Educators met at The Reach Museum in Kennewick/Richland WA to learn from U of W geology and climate scientist Heidi Roop, PNNL ecologist and data scientist, Kyle Larson and WA Green School’s Becky Bronstein to learn more...
Mar 5, 2019 | ESD 112, WA Green Schools
Educators in ESD 112 learned about the impacts climate change has on human health. Thank you to Southwest Clean Air Agency for providing specific resources on local air quality! One teacher said the training, “made me excited to spread the data [around human...
Mar 4, 2019 | WA Green Schools
By Bellamy Pailthorp of knkx.org – Read original story In what’s been called the most ambitious statewide climate science education initiative in the country, Washington state is putting $4 million dollars this year toward training teachers who want to integrate...
Feb 2, 2019 | Olympic ESD 114, WA Green Schools
In ESD 114, 21 5th grade teachers gathered to learn about Washington Green School’s 5th grade unit called Zombie Guacamole. In this NGSS-driven and phenomenon-based curriculum, students explore the factors of decomposition to understand how a bowl of guacamole...
