GLO #5 Environmental Sustainability

GLO #5 Environmental Sustainability

Students will apply knowledge of environmental sustainability in their personal, professional, and civic life.

• Understanding of ecosystems and environmental issues
• Conservation and preservation of natural resources
• Seeking solutions and taking action to address environmental problems
• Identify energy sources and conservation methods
• Examine economic and environmental impact of traditional and alternative energy sources

Thank you to Susan Johnson for sharing about the outdoor learning space available.

Our plan is to call the Middle School Office to reserve the space and borrow the key.

Our responsibility will be to make sure we put everything in it's appropriate space and keep it clean. if we run out of anything, please let Susie know.

Next year we will be also creating a committee with MS and elementary teachers discussing:

• Scheduling
• Maintaining and updating the space and materials
• Keys at both schools

Please let me know if you are interested in being a HP representative.

We are also in need of a rep on the District R3 Committee that meets once a month.

We have begun a number of things aligned to this GLO. Please comment on other things we are doing as a school.

• Composting
• Garden
• Camp St. Croix
• Use of outdoor learning space 
• Integrated Units of Inquiry- See enduring understandings and essential questions below!

2nd Grade

Choices affect the environment.

How do peoples past, present, and future choices affect the local and global environment?

What can I do to make a difference to the environment?

How can I get others to change their habits to impact the environment?

 Living things grow and change.

How do living things grow and change?

How do I help living things grow and change?

How do human, animal, and plant life cycles compare?

3rd Grade

Water is a natural resource required for the survival of all living things.

 What is the water cycle and how is it impacted by outside forces?

 How does water consumption affect life?

 How can we influence world- wide water stewardship?

4th Grade

Geography influences people’s lives past- present- future.

 What is my place in this world?

 What caused landforms to be formed and changed?

 Do people change landforms or do landforms cause people to change?

 How does geography and its changes impact settlement and life?

Things we do can affect the environment and we can make choices to reduce our impacts.

How do the choices we make in our everyday lives impact our local and global surroundings?

 What is our responsibility as citizens in conserving natural resources and exploring alternative energy forms?

 How does availability of natural resources impact/affect life? (global, power)

5th Grade

Interactions within environmental systems affect the survival and quality of life for all living things.

How are environmental systems impacted by humans and natural events?

What are the interactions within an ecosystem?

How do choices affect the environment?

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Kindergarten

  Animals interact with their families and the environment. 

Trees provide a natural resource that improves life.

1st Grade

 Weather all over the world influences living things

Pebbles, Sand, and Silt