Building a Storm Drain*
Create a storm drain cover that can keep trash out while letting water pass through in order to protect our waterways.
Duration: 45-60 minutes
Grades: 3-8
Tech at Home activity
Catch It If You Can*
Build and develop a scale drawing of a rain catchment system that will help conserve water. Explore challenges associated with drought in California and how water conservation can be part of a solution.
Duration: Five to six 60-minute sessions
Grades: 4-7
Lesson Plan
Responsible Reservoirs
In this activity, you’ll play a game that shows this complicated cause and effect relationship involved in major environmental decisions.
Duration: 20+ minutes
Grades: 5-8
Tech at Home activity
More Plastic, More Problems: Using Ratios to Get Real*
Design a device that removes garbage from the Pacific Gyre while minimizing the number of animals collected.
Duration: Five to seven 50-minute sessions
Grade: 6
Lesson Plan
Coastal Erosion: Designing and Debating Solutions*
Make an argument supported with evidence for a solution to the environmental issue of coastal erosion.
Duration: Five 60-minute sessions
Grades: 6-8
Lesson Plan
Emerging Tech*
Examine environmental issues through the lens of four emerging technologies. Then, students will consider the challenges these technologies might face if they were adopted in their own communities.
Duration: Three 60-minute sessions
Grades: 7-12
Lesson Plan
Connecting With Climate*
Learners will explore how to problem-solve when approaching large-scale, multidimensional issues like climate change.
Duration: 90 minutes
Grades: 6-12
Lesson Plan