Partner stories
These stories are a collection of educator professional learning experiences and opportunities provided by ESD, CBO and Tribal School partners.
ClimeTime partners offer a variety of methods in supporting teacher professional development for climate education. These stories highlight partner successes in educating teachers across Washington state about the many ways in which climate science and the focus on local phenomena-based learning can engage both teachers and students.
By sharing these stories, ClimeTime hopes that educators, students, and anyone invested in rigorous and experiential science learning will be inspired to explore how they can engage with climate science in their region. ClimeTime values the work of Washington’s students, teachers, and community-based partners, and seeks to celebrate their commitment to engaging learning experiences.
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Learning to Live with Rising Seas
From high school students calculating the sea level rise resulting from climate change to kindergarteners tackling plastic pollution, EarthGen’s professional development workshops are bringing environmental learning and action to Washington classrooms. “Living with...
PEI’s Solar Energy Workshop Brings Educators and Energy Professionals Together
Educators in southeast Washington joined Pacific Education Institute FieldSTEM Coordinators Megan Rivard and Amy Dawley for an adventure in solar energy this February. Through a series of three synchronous Zoom sessions and asynchronous tasks via Canvas, participants...
Student Green Congress
The Chehalis Basin Education Consortium, a watershed education program at Capital Region ESD 113 joined forces with two other local watershed programs for the annual event Student GREEN Congress from March 11th through March 17th. Student GREEN Congress is an...
Teachers Tackle Food Waste with PEI’s Solutions Oriented Learning Storylines
Nehemias Chalma, Compost Facility Manager at Natural Selection Farms, spoke to teachers in both English and Spanish cohorts about using compost to support healthy soil. Where does good food go bad? This question gave educators in ESD 105, NCESD, and PSESD something to...
6th and 7th Graders Explore Bioplastics as an Alternative to Traditional Plastics
The room was a buzz as students pulled their bioplastics from the cabinet where samples had been left drying over the weekend. Some sounds of disappointment could be heard across the room as well as some exclamations of “Check it out!” Eighteen middle school students...
Wishkah Valley Tree Planting
Great morning tree planting to improve habitat for salmon and minimize erosion with thirty 7th and 8th grade students from Wishkah Valley School on January 20th, 2022. Beautiful site on the Satsop River in Montesano. We partnered with the Grays Harbor Conservation...
Trees & Climate Change: An Elementary ClimeTime Series
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!
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
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...