ClimeTime | Climate Science Learning

Trees & Climate Change: An Elementary ClimeTime Series

Feb 2, 2022 | PSESD

Author, Aisha Nnoli, who wrote Good Morning Trees, joined Elementary teachers and two teacher leader facilitators from across the Puget Sound region to dig into the role of trees in climate change and how to share this with younger students. Two Saturdays in the fall...

June 2022 Salmon & Hydropower TSP Planning is in full swing!

Feb 2, 2022 | ESD 123

Many schools in Washington State are part of the Salmon in the Classroom project. Through this program, students hatch salmon eggs at school, learn about salmon life cycle, habitat and learn how to test water quality. The hands-on experience of raising fish helps...

Hot and Hazy Summers Connect Climate Change to Local Experience

Feb 1, 2022 | NEWESD 101, ESD 105, ESD 112, ESD 123, NCESD 171, EarthGen (Formerly Washington Green Schools)

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...

Addressing Climate Change Requires Many Voices

Jan 14, 2022 | PSESD

In January and February of 2021, 80 Washington citizens from all walks of life and political persuasions gathered virtually to learn about, deliberate on and make recommendations to the Washington state legislature about how to mitigate climate change in our state....

EarthGen Uses Gamification to Teach Climate Action

Jan 5, 2022 | Capital Region ESD 113, EarthGen (Formerly Washington Green Schools)

Olympia School District teacher Heath Bingman presents economic interests in EarthGen’s mock climate summit. While youth climate leaders often make the news, many young people believe climate change is too big a problem for them to solve. But young people are natural...

Farmers Facing Climate Change: PEI hosts SOLS: Regenerative Agriculture SOLS Workshop for Puyallup Watershed

Jan 3, 2022 | Pacific Education Institute

PEI FieldSTEM Coordinator interviewed Tara Clark for the workshop’s virtual field trip. Mother Earth Farm manager, Tara Clark, shared that she left a film career in Los Angeles to work the land on behalf of her community. Pacific Education Institute’s (PEI)...

OpenSciEd

Dec 14, 2021 | ESD 123

Teaching students during a pandemic is challenge, teaching students who are returning to in person instruction after 2 years is an even bigger challenge. Adding a new science curriculum pilot to the mix has added another layer of complexity to teaching in the 2021-22...

Dedicated Teachers Dig Into OER High School Science Curriculum

Dec 14, 2021 | NCESD 171

When a group of teachers convened last June to continue development of a integrated three-year, open educational resource, high school science curriculum, they recognized that since beginning this development journey four years before, their skills as curriculum...

Solutions Oriented Learning Storylines: Forests with ESDs 105 and 171

Nov 23, 2021 | ESD 105, NCESD 171, Pacific Education Institute

Workshop participants took on the role of trees and competed with each other for carbon, nutrients, and water. When Pacific Education Institute and two Central Washington Educational Service Districts thought about how to best serve the teachers in their region, an...

Climate Justice League Inspires Action

Nov 17, 2021 | ESD 112, EarthGen (Formerly Washington Green Schools)

Attendees of the latest cohort of the Climate Justice League left their November 6 kickoff meeting inspired. “The idea that one person can make a difference has been an inspiring addition to this learning experience, and I am motivated in figuring out how I can be a...

Rachel Stendahl Sows Seeds of Change

Nov 10, 2021 | Capital Region ESD 113

“Somebody should give Rachel Stendahl a medal.” That’s what a comment from a stranger on an article in The Daily Chronicle said about her achievements in education. Six years after starting her Adjudicated Youth Environmental Science Program for Lewis County and...

Implementing Green Chemistry and Sustainable Design Principles in Middle School

Nov 9, 2021 | NCESD 171

For a second time this year, the NCESD and Department of Ecology partnered up to offer a fully asynchronous Canvas Course designed to support teachers in learning about the principles of green chemistry and sustainable design. Teachers work their way through several...