Grade Span | K-2

Workshop Description | Participants will learn about the benefits of native plant restoration and practical ways to engage students in this process. Creating wonder and excitement about the systems that surround the school.

Presenters | Amanda McCraw and Jivan Dhaliwal

Session Materials | Slide Deck

Recording Not Available

Grade Span | 3rd - 5th Grade

Workshop Description | Engage in wondering around a phenomenon about plants and learn how to turn student wonderings into driving questions. Special attention will be given to supporting English learners during the activity.

Presenters | Kate Bilse, Nathan Inouye, Annie Ransom, and Sarah Raskin

Session Materials | Slide Deck | Handouts

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Grade Span | 7th - 12th Grades

Workshop Description | This workshop is designed to introduce teachers to important Community Partners in their regions around mosquito abatement and how to use this local phenomena in your classroom to support analyzing data, engineering and finding solutions.

Presenters | Lissa Gilmore and Mena Parmar

Session Materials | Slide Deck

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Grade Span | 9th - 12th Grade

Workshop Description | Participants will engage in a session that focuses on dynamic ecosystems through the iconic Monarch butterfly. This workshop provides a 5E lesson sequence on how the Monarch population has changed over time, due to environmental and human impacts. There is a particular relevance to the extreme climate disruption of recent wildfires and how this negatively impacted Monarch populations. The lesson sequence supports Life Science NGSS content standards, and includes Science and Engineering Practices as well as Cross-Cutting Concepts, as well as California's Environmental Principles and Concepts. All Curriculum and resources will be made available to all participants.

Presenter | Elizabeth Shaw

Session Materials | Slide Deck

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Grade Span | K - 4

Workshop Description | Teachers will engage with 2nd and 4th grade NGSS aligned lesson sequences about using models to assist students with exploring and explaining their understanding about how animals survive and respond to their environment.

Presenters | Tara McCullough and Erin Levi

Session Materials | Slide Deck | Resources

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Grade Span | 2nd - 12th Grade

Workshop Description | Participants will learn more about the Salmon/Trout in the Classroom Program, also known as the California Aquarium Education Program (CAEP). We will explore the importance of salmon as keystone species, program connections and local citizen science extensions. Participants will leave equipped with resources to start the process to bring Aquarium Education to their own classroom!

Presenters | Sandi Starr, Andrea Ames and Mena Parmar

Session Materials | Slide Deck| Resources

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Grade Span | 5th - 9th Grade

Workshop Description | Have you been wondering how to incorporate local (or global) environmental problems into your classroom that are both engaging and meaningful? Join us for this two-part workshop where educators will participate as adult learners and reflect on strategies to engage students in any outdoor setting, including one’s own schoolyard. Through science doing and scientific thinking, students will learn to better understand the human impact on biodiversity in their local environments and the world around them. The first session will focus on student engagement, scientific thinking and data collection in a schoolyard. In the second session, participants will get to hear the successes and challenges of leading students through meaningful environmental literacy projects from three middle school educators.

Presenters | Amy Roe, Tom Arnold, Adria Bray and Sharyl Limbaugh

Session Materials | Slide Deck

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Grade Span | 9th - 12th Grades

Workshop Description | Participants will use the crosscutting concepts to strengthen a nature journaling experience.

Presenters | Shannon Clark, Erik Lucas and Sally Finch

Session Materials | Slide Deck | Handouts | Resources

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Grade Span | K - 5th Grades

Workshop Description | This workshop is designed to help educators teach nature journaling to kindergarten - fifth grade students. Educators will have an opportunity to nature journal as well as learn how to encourage students to be more keen observers and ask questions. Educators will learn how to prompt younger students to include words, numbers, and pictures with their observations.

Presenters | Andrea Ames and Lissa Gilmore

Session Materials | Slide Deck | Handouts

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Grade Span | K - 12th Grades

Workshop Description | In this workshop participants will:

• Explore the environmental principles and concepts

• Review 5E environmental literacy lessons

• Plan for a 5E environmental literacy lesson

Presenters | Michelle Roy, Bonnie Crum, Kristen Urquidez, Jamie Viveros

Session Materials | Slide Deck

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Grade Span | 5th - 9th Grade

Workshop Description | In the second session, participants will get to hear the successes and challenges of leading students through meaningful environmental literacy projects from three middle school educators.

Presenters | Amy Roe, Tom Arnold, Adria Bray and Sharyl Limbaugh

Session Materials | Slide Deck

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Grade Span | 7th - 12th Grade

Workshop Description | Participants will engage in a community of learners, discussing how, where, and when they take students outdoors. The Salinas Union High School District will share their story about developing sustainable partnerships with local informal science educators. Dialogue will focus on barriers to taking students on field trips as well as solutions to remove barriers. This session is designed for all 7th - 12th grade formal and informal science educators and administrators.

Presenters | Robin Mendenhall and Will Franzell

Session Materials | Slide Deck | Handouts | Resources

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Grade Span | TK - 2nd Grades

Workshop Description | Learn how to link local phenomena to Next Generation Science Standards and Environmental Principles and Concepts

Presenters | Adrienne Nau and Laura Lutz

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Grade Span | 3rd - 6th Grades

Workshop Description | Students often think that being in nature means you have to be at the ocean or in a forest. This session focuses on specific, yet simple, activities that get your students to explore nature in their schoolyards so they begin to understand the connection between themselves and the environment right outside their classrooms. Through drawings and poetry, students develop their observation and writing skills along with environmental science content. And here’s the bonus, getting your students actively engaged in nature supports children’s social-emotional health and well-being!

Presenters | Lesley Gates and Renee Miller

Session Materials | Slide Deck

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Grade Span | 5th - 8th Grade

Workshop Description | In this workshop, participants will use the lens' of the crosscutting concepts to enrich nature journaling.

Presenters | Sinead Klement and Stephanie Davis

Session Materials | Slide Deck | Handouts | Resources

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Grade Span | 7th - 12th Grades

Workshop Description | Participants will engage in a session that focuses on easy ways to get students to connect with the Environmental Principles & Concepts. River ecology will be the main focus, but these simple activities can be used in many other teaching environments.

Presenters | Davin Aalto and Nikki Luckin

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Workshop Description | Nature journaling is about exploring nature, then documenting your experience in a journal with words, sketches, and numbers. Adopting this practice for yourself will make teaching this to your students easier and more organic. Melinda will teach strategies to help you to see more in nature, simplify the process of recording, quite the inner critical voice so you can focus on observation. You’ll deepen your capacity to observe and discern and catalyze curiosity and wonder in the world around you. Artistic ability is not required (—it’s a skill that will develop with practice).

Bring a nature item (leaf, plant, fruit, etc), your sketchbook and a pen

Presenter| Melinda Nakagawa

Organization | Home - SPARK IN NATURE

Session Materials | Slide Deck | Handouts | Resources

Recording Not Available

Workshop Description | Participants will be introduced to the practice of biomimicry through the Function Scavenger Hunt activity. In this 45 minute activity, participants will learn to “see” function in natural objects. Learning how nature functions helps us to create sustainable technologies. For example, how does the structure of a gecko’s foot allow it to climb walls without using glue, or how do termite mounds ventilate without external energy?

Presenter| Rosanna Ayers

Organization | The Biomimicry Institute

Session Materials | Slide Deck | Handouts | Resources

Recording Not Available

Workshop Description | Participants will be introduced to the Project WET (Water Education Today) in a brief overview before diving into an exploration of two Project WET activities. One delving into how groundwater supplies are monitored by engaging in a simulation challenging you to develop and use a model of well data to determine a likely source of contamination for a community water supply. A second activity will involve a physical simulation that can stimulate a class exploration of factors that affect water equity and access in California and around the world.

Presenter| Brian Brown

Organization | California Project WET (Water Education Today)

Session Materials | Slide Deck

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Workshop Description | This room will be open for networking. Come discuss what you learned, connect with other environmental educators and share resources.

Facilitator | CELP Leaders