Overview to Field Research: Field Research is the collection of data and observations outside of a traditional laboratory, classroom, and workplace setting. These Field Research Activities provides the structure for students to learn more about what is going on in their local context (at home, at school, or in the community) for a specific environmental issue. To Complete a Field Research Activity, Select Your Grade Level Below:
Overview to WebQuests: WebQuests are a self-directed learning tool that helps learners construct their own learning by determining which sources are most useful. In a WebQuest the learner can:
Choose the Order: Learners can explore resources in any order that they want!
Choose the Length of Time for Learning: Learners might glance quickly through the content on one link and linger longer on another.
To learn more about transportation related issues and topics utilize the Transportation Webquests:
Bay Area Air Quality Management District: Lesson plans for reducing impacts from transportation for 4th and 5th graders. Curriculum guide has additional lessons on other topics of sustainability.
Learning Lab: Search “Transportation” for interactive and engaging lesson plans by subscription.
K: Bodies in Motion Get kids moving with series of pantomimes teaching methods of transportation
1st-2nd: Let’s Ride Together lessons teach about traffic and how it forms.
3rd-4th Grade: Transportation Trends is a 3 lesson unit on how people get around through history.
3rd-5th Grade: Fueling our Future combines energy and fuel in a six student-centered lesson unit.
K-5 Safe Routes to School: Alameda County’s Guide on Walk or Rolling to school. Each grade band educator guide includes six activities that incorporate Common Core Standards and environmental health themes.
2nd-3rd: Intersections Galore!
4th-5th: Greenhouse in a Bottle
Spare the Air: A variety of lesson plan resources for K-8 on: Bike and Pedestrian Safety, Climate Change and Transportation, and Outside the Bay Area.
California Academy of Sciences:
6th-10th: Places, Trains, or Bicycles: Being a Low Impact Traveler
6th-10th: Building Better Buses: Transportation Design Challenges
6th-8th: Buses and Biofuels Video based lesson plans on carbon emissions and biofuels
EPA:
5th-8th: What’s in a Label? Exploring Fuel Economy and the Environment for middle school
9th-12: What’s in a Label? Exploring Fuel Economy and the Environment Teaches students to understand fuel economy and environment labels
Aquarium of the Bay: High school subject units of study including: Biology, Chemistry, and Marine Debris Prevention. There is also a unit dedicated to Discovering the Bay Hybrid Ferry, a great local case study.
Learning Lab: Search “Transportation” for interactive and engaging lesson plans by subscription.
9th-10th: Transforming Transportation
9th-12th: Fueling our Future