OELS Resources

Potential online teaching resources:

Walking Mountains Science Center - Online Learning Resources <-- These are awesome!

Aspen Center for Environment Studies - Online Phenology Resources

Weather and Climate Cloud Journal - Rubric and an example

Colorado Soundscape PBL - Colorado Soundscape: Public Website and PBL summary <-- This was one Ms. Leigh's favorite projects of her entire career. Here is her Great Sand Dunes example. Flash Nonfiction Thinking Maps

"Meet the Press" Climate Policy PBL

Ecosystems and Anthropogenic Influences PBL

Patterns in Human Migration PBL (intended to follow animal migrations and pair with ELA and SS)

Science Notebooks to Support Meaningful Learning

Nature Activities while at home

How are teachers connecting to the Outdoor Lab experience before or after their visit?

Evergreen Middle School: Growth Mindset + Outdoor Lab Reflection.

Found on the Ground at the Gazebo: Letters from a Friendly 7th Grader.

Dunstan Middle School: Outdoor Lab Logo Contest.

25 Books that show kids to care about the Environment.

PBL: Design the perfect luggage for Outdoor Lab.

Learning Targets during your visit.

Thank you for your patience as we transition into the NGSS standards and balance the learning needs of our 6th graders, High School Leaders, and Outdoor Lab Interns. Like all teaching, these are living documents. We are constantly striving to improve our curriculum with student outcomes and our mission at the core.

Preparing for the Day - Responsibility Check videos

Biosphere

• Windy Peak Tree Key
• Calves de indentificacion de arboles de Windy Peak Espanol
• Track Identification and Animal Behavior
• Birds of North America with Jason Ward
• Outdoor Life Magazine article - Colorado braces for Wolves
• Windy Peak - Teaching Cards
• Mt. Evans - Teaching Cards

Hydrosphere

• USGS: Science in your Watershed (map of US Watersheds)
• National Park Service: Ecosystem Drivers in Southwest Montane Forests
• Colorado State Forest Service: Colorado Watershed Management
• Windy Peak - Teaching Cards (Under Construction)
• Mt. Evans - Teaching Cards

Geosphere

• Windy Peak - Drake Durkee Bench and Drake Durkee Foundation
• Windy Peak - Teaching Cards
• Mt. Evans - Teaching Cards

Astronomy

• Video: Scale Model of the Solar System
• NASA - Astronomy Picture of the Day
• Windy Peak - Astronomy Teaching Cards: Meadow and Kawanis Astronomy Center
• Mt. Evans - Spectroscopy

Archery

• NASP National Archery in the Schools Program. NASP You Tube Channel
• Windy Peak - Teaching Cards (Half greenhouse and half archery)
• Mt. Evans - Teaching Cards

Mt. Evans History

• Tales of the Bar PD - PDF
  • Contains: Stories, Reflection Activities, and Dodge Lodge information.
• Mt. Evans - Teaching Cards

Windy Peak History

• In the Shadow of Storm Mountain; The History of Outdoor Lab, Windy Peak by Jackie Earnhart PDF
  • Contains: Stories, Reflection Activities, Information on historic buildings and tools.
• Tribal Map Before European Settlement
• Windy Peak - Teaching Cards

Greenhouse

• Video - The Extraordinary Life and Times of a Strawberry
• Windy Peak - Teaching Cards
• Tower Gardens for the Classroom and beyond!
• The Bees Waggle - Native polinator presentations for the classroom

Please email me directly with feedback, thank yous, or to add to resources: jason.harding@jeffco.k12.co.us