Earth and Environmental Science · Week 35 · Sustainability and Civic Action
Reflecting on Our Place
Students revisit their week one place map and explain how their understanding of themselves and the valley has changed.
- Students will
- Students revisit their week one place map, use the aquifer budget to calculate how pumping changes the valley's water over 10 years, and explain how their understanding of themselves and the valley has changed.
- SEL skill
- Compare then and now feelings about a place and explain what changed them
- What it looks like
- Students recognize how their feelings about the valley have changed and name why.
- Content focus
- Reflecting on our place
- Format
- Think write pair share
Self-awareness
Self-awareness is noticing what you feel and think, and what you value and do well, and seeing how that shapes your choices. More self-awareness activities
What you get
A teacher guide with what to say, step by step, plus student pages and a supports page for students with diverse learning needs, including those with IEPs. Print or Project it, or assign it in Google Forms and Google Docs for Google Classroom. Your first 10 activities are free.
Standards
- HS-ESS3-6: High School Earth and Space Science performance expectation
- Science and engineering practice: SEP8 Obtaining, evaluating, and communicating information
- Crosscutting concept: CCC7 Stability and change
- CA Environmental Principles and Concepts: Principle IV: There are no permanent or impermeable boundaries that prevent matter from flowing between systems
- Literacy in science: WHST.11-12.9 Draw evidence from informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and research.
- Traditional course: Earth and Environmental Science
More self-awareness activities for Earth and Environmental Science
- Scientist of This Place Self-awarenessStudents map the land, water, and people that shape their lives and name the kind of environmental scientist they want to become.
- Where Our Water Comes From Self-awarenessTracing valley water from the Colorado River and the aquifer to the tap and reflecting on what we take for granted.
- Reading Climate Clues Self-awarenessAnalyzing ice core and tree ring evidence of past climates and noticing the feelings that arise when data points to change.
- Semester Reflection: Footprint and Handprint Self-awarenessStudents reflect on how their thinking about the environment changed and set a spring goal for a positive handprint.
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RoseThread Connect activities are drafted with the help of AI and shaped by educators. Students never have to share anything personal. Our five SEL skills are informed by CASEL's SEL Framework; RoseThread Learning is not affiliated with or endorsed by CASEL.