5th Grade Earth Science In-Class Programs
In-Class Programs for 5th Grade Earth Science
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| Provider Name | Resource Link | Provider Location | Abstract |
|---|---|---|---|
| Big Break Regional Shoreline | Naturalist in Class | Oakley | Can’t make it to Big Break? They'll come to you and bring Delta animals, plants, science, and history to life in your classroom. |
| CuriOdyssey | Build It and Break It! - In-Class | San Mateo | Build a wooden bridge and a paper tower, then test their strength until they collapse. Students will explore gravity, stress, and other forces that engineers have to overcome (or utilize) every time they construct a bridge or building. Let’s learn together as we build and break our very own structures. Also available as a field trip. |
| CuriOdyssey | Wind Powered Vehichles - In-Class | San Mateo | This activity is propelled by a fan or the students themselves! Students learn about engineering, gasses, friction, sails, forces, motion, and energy. By creating a vehicle which can be powered by wind, students gain understanding of design, why we use wheels, why we might not, and attempt to build a vehicle which goes straight, far, and/or fast with limited materials. |
| East Bay Regional Park District | Mobile Visitor Center | Oakland | Imagine a “closet on wheels,” filled with materials for teaching any range of nature-related topics. And it even comes with a professional nature educator! Groups of up to 30 students at a time engage in topics including: ~ Watersheds ~ Local Mammals ~ Reptiles and Amphibians |
| Golden Gate Audubon Society | Eco-Education Programs | Berkeley | The Eco-Education Program offers year-round environmental education to Title I (federally-funded) elementary schools in Oakland, Richmond and San Francisco. Golden Gate Audubon staff and volunteers work closely with teachers to provide opportunities for third, fourth and fifth grade students—and their families—to explore and learn about their local environment in the classroom and on field trips. Students discover how their lives connect with local habitats and ecosystems. Through creative, hands-on activities, they learn about the ecology of the local watershed, first in their classrooms and schoolyards and then on field trips to nearby creeks and wetlands, and finally to the Pacific Ocean. In each area, students learn about and help restore local wildlife habitats. Families are invited on the ocean trips, for many a first-time experience. |
| Happy Hollow Park & Zoo | The Water all Around Us | San Jose | What can wildlife tell us about the water all around? The water cycle Wildlife as a water indicator Vocabulary: Precipitation/Runoff/Watershed/Indicator species |
| Junior Center of Art and Science | Rocket Science: How Can We Use Air to Make Something Fly? | Oakland | Explore the states of matter, gravity, and energy in this exciting workshop where students will build, design, and test their rockets. Collaboration and inquiry are fundamental components of this class. |
| Kids for the Bay | School Wide Creek Education Program | Berkeley | KftB works with the school community to adopt, clean up, and restore a local creek habitat. The creek becomes an outdoor classroom for hands-on learning and environmental stewardship. Students learn about their connection to their local creek and discover reasons to care for their creek watershed. School-Wide Programs are a partnership between KIDS for the BAY and the entire elementary school, including the principal, teachers, students, and students’ families. These long-term, in-depth programs engage each grade level in environmental science and action while providing professional development in science education for each classroom teacher. KftB also provides curriculum, training, and an equipment resource center for the school to continue the program in future years. The lessons and activities for each grade level are directly tied to many California State Content Standards in science, language arts, social studies, and math. After a three year period of support for the school, the principal, teachers, students, parents and community partners continue the program independently as a completely integrated part of their school curriculum and culture. |
| Kids for the Bay | Storm Drain Rangers Program | Berkeley | The Storm Drain Rangers Program engages entire school communities in exciting environmental education projects to reduce trash in and around school campuses. Students and their teachers will learn about their local watershed, neighborhood-creek-bay-ocean connections, urban runoff pollution, and storm water pollution prevention in four hands-on Classroom Lessons that integrate science, math, and social studies. These students will then help KIDS for the BAY deliver a fun and informative School-Wide Assembly that will get the school community on board with important litter reduction projects. The Storm Drain Rangers Program is also a Teacher Training Program. Teachers learn alongside their students and receive both a curriculum guide and an equipment kit to teach the program to future students |
| Kids for the Bay | School Wide Watershed Action Program | Berkeley | KftB partners with a school for three years to engage the school community in connecting with their local watershed, inspiring the protection and restoration of their watershed, and increasing academic achievement. Students learn about their personal connections with their local creek, San Francisco Bay, and ocean watersheds and the local National Marine Sanctuaries through classroom lessons and field trips. Each class also implements action projects that positively impact the health of their watershed. Our School-Wide Programs are a partnership between KIDS for the BAY and the entire elementary school, including the principal, teachers, students, and students’ families. These long-term, in-depth programs engage each grade level in environmental science and action while providing professional development in science education for each classroom teacher. KftB also provides curriculum, training, and an equipment resource center for the school to continue the program in future years. The lessons and activities for each grade level are directly tied to many California State Content Standards in science, language arts, social studies, and math. After a three year period of support for the school, the principal, teachers, students, parents and community partners continue the program independently as a completely integrated part of their school curriculum and culture. |
| Kids for the Bay | School Wide Urban Wilderness Classroom Program | Berkeley | KftB works with every teacher and every class of students at a school to design, create, study and maintain the Urban Wilderness Classroom, an outdoor wilderness habitat located on the school campus. Working with KftB, each grade level is responsible for the design of a different habitat of the wilderness. Once the wilderness is developed, KIDS for the BAY leads lessons for each class to study the various habitats of the wilderness and to cultivate and maintain them. School-Wide Programs are a partnership between KIDS for the BAY and the entire elementary school, including the principal, teachers, students, and students’ families. These long-term, in-depth programs engage each grade level in environmental science and action while providing professional development in science education for each classroom teacher. KftB also provides curriculum, training, and an equipment resource center for the school to continue the program in future years. The lessons and activities for each grade level are directly tied to many California State Content Standards in science, language arts, social studies, and math. After a three year period of support for the school, the principal, teachers, students, parents and community partners continue the program independently as a completely integrated part of their school curriculum and culture. |
| Kids for the Bay | Environmental Action Projects | Berkeley | Environmental Action Projects provide the exciting, empowering opportunity for teachers and students to take action to help solve environmental problems in their communities. Each project includes engaging hands-on activities that focus on a particular environmental problem and the solutions to that problem. Each Environmental Action Project is three hours of instruction and action. Environmental Action Project options: ? Reducing Plastic Marine Debris – School Campus Clean-Up ? Reducing Plastic Marine Debris – No Waste Lunches ? Our Watershed and Water Conservation ? Environmentally Safe Pesticides ? Safe Bay Food Consumption ? Ocean Acidification and Energy Conservation ? Creek Restoration ? Creek Water Quality Testing ? Reduce, Reuse, Recycle and Rot |
| Kids for the Bay | Watershed Rangers Program | Berkeley | In the Watershed Rangers Program, students will learn about the importance of the San Francisco Bay watershed and how we can all play a part in keeping it clean and healthy. In this exciting, hands-on program, students will take direct action to prevent storm drain pollution and divert our solid waste stream through reducing, reusing, and recycling. |
| NASA Ames Research Center | Speakers Bureau | Moffett Field | Volunteers from Ames Research Center are available to speak to your group about NASA, earth and space science, space technology, life sciences, and aeronautics. (does not include astronauts) huong.nguyen@nasa.gov. |
| Oakland Zoo | School ZooMobile - Wildlife CSI | Oakland | The illegal wildlife trade is the fourth most lucrative global market, with hundreds of millions of plants and animals captured each year, then traded on the black market. While the problem can seem daunting, there are ways we can help! Using our observation skills, students will learn how to identify items found in the illegal wildlife trade and help develop possible solutions. Rather than feel powerless, students will learn new skills and problem-solving techniques, empowering them to be stewards for wildlife around the globe! |
| Roots and Shoots | Roots and Shoots Service Learning Projects | Berkley | Roots and Shoots helps your classroom improve the environment by supporting groups that are doing service learning projects. You can start your own projects or join existing projects in your area. |
| StopWaste.org | The StopWaste Ambassador Program | Oakland | Your students will become ambassadors who take action to educate their peers on environmental topics and become role models for younger students throughout Alameda County. With technical assistance provided by StopWaste educators, students develop and implement waste reduction action projects. Technical assistance is provided through teacher trainings, action project kits, educator stipends and more! StopWaste works with middle and high school classrooms and environmental clubs. |
| StopWaste.org | The 4Rs Student Action Program | Oakland | Bring fun and educational action projects into your classroom. Engage your students in addressing real environmental issues at your school and in their community by putting the 4Rs (Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, Rot/Compost) into practice.Over the course of three, two-hour visits, students will: 1) examine and analyze their waste, 2) design and implement a 4Rs action project, and 3) communicate their results to their community. Teachers may select an action project from one of three thematic focus areas: The 4Rs & My Watershed, The 4Rs & My Wasteshed, The 4Rs & My Foodshed, |
| The Gardens at Heather Farms | Native Plants, Native People | Walnut Creek | With artifacts, games, stories, and crafts, we'll bring the past to life and discover how the first Californians lived. Discover the unique ways Native Americans used native plants to improve their everyday lives. Students will prepare acorns and play games just like Native American children. Secondary students focus on ways Native Americans minimized their impact on the environment and used natural resources. |
| The Gardens at Heather Farms | Wonderful Worms In-Class | Walnut Creek | Through experiments and observation we'll investigate the hidden life of this fascinating recycler and create a classroom worm bin. (Also available as a field trip) |
| The Gardens at Heather Farms | Do the Rot Thing: Soils and Composting In-Class | Walnut Creek | Dig in and investigate the secrets of soil as we learn the"rotten truth" about decomposition, solve a compost critter mystery, cook up a compost experiment and discover our role in conserving this precious resource. (Also available as a field-trip) |
| West Contra Costa Waste Management Authority | Classroom Presentation | San Pablo | This is an in-person interactive presentation for your classroom by Republic Services Recycling Coordinators. Available Grades: Available for grades K – 12 Duration: Classroom presentations are around 30-45 minutes long |