California Education and the Environment Initiative (EEI)

. CalMatters : What we know so far about school reopenings in California https://buff.ly/2Gvuwky

Students examine the seasonal cycles of 2 CA rivers in upper-elementary #science unit The Dynamic Nature of Rivers. The lesson Flow and Flooding: River Control explores the phenomenon of floods and human activities along the Smith and Merced rivers https://buff.ly/34fbd8p #ExploreEEI

Environmental education gains weight in a return to school marked by Covid https://buff.ly/2GkwPXw

12th-grade #Civics unit Active Voices: Civil Society and the Environment explains how civil society makes it possible for people, individually or in association with others, to bring their influence to bear on government in ways other than voting and elections https://buff.ly/2Rhyk8P #ExploreEEI

California Students Lacking Tech Access Less Motivated for Remote Learning Than Peers https://buff.ly/2Gdyoqh

Expert Alert: Learning in Outdoor Digital Spaces; Educator’s creative curriculum comes in handy during the pandemic. https://buff.ly/35SzYa5

The Journey of a Nugget is a 4th-grade #history story about the geologic formation of gold and the changes in nature, like erosion, that affect deposits of minerals https://buff.ly/2IavsuD #ExploreEEI

Rubbish education goes virtual; The Butte Environmental Council’s Recycling and Rubbish Education program workshops for kindergarten through 12th-grade students have gone virtual.

Renaming state parks can tell a more inclusive history of CA https://buff.ly/3oPnMj5

Take a Virtual Trip Through California’s Majestic State Parks; The PORTS program connects K-12 students to CA’s diverse cultural, natural, and historic resources through virtual field-trip experiences. https://buff.ly/34I3UX1

Outdoor Learning Benefits Students at all Levels https://buff.ly/3jQR90J

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A story about a child and her father shopping for strawberries illustrates the factors influencing the availability of food in 2nd-grade #history reader The Mystery of the Missing Strawberries https://buff.ly/2GZGHmL #ExploreEEI

Academic testing looks very different in California during distancing learning https://buff.ly/37XhR59