HR: 1340h
AN: ED53A-0321    [Abstracts]
TI: From Creeks to the Classroom: Hands-on Curriculum Units on the Web
AU: * Salter, I Y
EM: irene@archwayschool.org
AF: Archway School, 1940 Virginia Street, Berkeley, CA 94709 United States
AB: Archway School is in the process of developing 6 curriculum units to teach middle school students about the ecology and environmental science of the San Francisco Bay Area. This is being accomplished through integrated classroom, field trip, and creek restoration project activities. The creek where restoration work takes place becomes an outdoor laboratory for a wide array of classroom lessons tied to both National and California Science Education Standards. The entire curriculum, including all lesson plans, assessments, and examples of student work are being made available, free of charge, to teachers and educators via the Internet. Although the units were initially developed to teach about the natural and geological history of the San Francisco Bay Area, classroom activities are structured such that they could be used at any school and restoration work could be undertaken at any creek in the country. This presentation will showcase the curriculum and provide information so that educators may bring it home to their own institutions. Teachers will get a "tour" of 3 of the 6 curriculum units (Ecology, Watersheds, Earth History) and then have an opportunity to view activities that highlight the strengths of the program.
UR: http://www.mysciencebox.org
DE: 0805 Elementary and secondary education
DE: 0820 Curriculum and laboratory design
DE: 0845 Instructional tools
DE: 1165 Sedimentary geochronology
DE: 1879 Watershed
SC: Education and Human Resources [ED]
MN: Fall Meeting 2005