Dec 6, 2019 | ESD 112, EarthGen (Formerly Washington Green Schools)
More than two dozen teachers from Southwest Washington school districts attended a STEM Seminar at Vancouver Community Library on Tuesday, December 3 to learn about connections between climate change and human health. The full-day professional development opportunity...
Oct 18, 2019 | ESD 105, EarthGen (Formerly Washington Green Schools)
The construction of a “lift” to contain the day’s collection of recyclable solid waste is observed by teachers. Twenty-five elementary teachers from eight school districts in Central Washington gathered in mid-October to learn about ways to use...
Oct 18, 2019 | Capital Region ESD 113, EarthGen (Formerly Washington Green Schools)
Washington Green Schools facilitated the first of four meetings at the Capital Region ESD 113 Event Center. The October 16th event focused on the impacts climate change is having on snow-pack dependent organisms. 22 teachers, representing 14 school districts, took an...
Apr 18, 2019 | EarthGen (Formerly Washington 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, EarthGen (Formerly Washington 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, EarthGen (Formerly Washington 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, EarthGen (Formerly Washington 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, EarthGen (Formerly Washington 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...
