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Big Changes in the Big Apple: Crash Course Kids #38.1

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Students investigate weather-related phenomena including the cause of rain, evaporation, snow, and wind. Students also explore how a coat helps us stay warm in the cold and how blocking the sun to make a shadow causes the temperature to decrease.

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Science ABCs - American Chemical Society

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Outer London primary school teachers describe the activities and expectations used to develop strong, confident writers. Students with limited experiences of books leave year 2 knowing how to vocalize and organize their thoughts to prepare for writing tasks.

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IMPORTANT UPDATE:Effective July 1, 2020, the EEI Curriculum will be migrated to a password-protected SharePoint site. Here are the instructionsfor how to obtain access to the new EEI SharePoint site, for which you will need to have a Microsoft account(available to anyone). Contact us at eei@calrecycle.ca.gov if you need technical assistance with accessing the site.

The California Education and the Environment (EEI) Curriculum contains a wide array of resources to support your transition to the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS). The EEI Curriculum uses the environment as an authentic, engaging, and highly effective context in which students can more readily see the relevance of science and engineering to their lives. Although the EEI Curriculum was based on California's 1998 science content standards, it contains diverse instructional resources that, if thoughtfully integrated, can enrich lessons and units of study focused on California's NGSS.

California's new Science Curriculum Framework provides several examples of how the EEI Curriculum can be integrated into NGSS-focused instruction.

New! Inventory of EEI Curriculum Resources Spreadsheet

The EEI Curriculum includes a vast array of readings, photos, maps, information cards, and activities on topics ranging from air to water. While the EEI Curriculum wasn't written for NGSS, you can "harvest" EEI resources for your NGSS lessons. Access this Google Sheet and search for resources to add to your NGSS units of study. For example, if you teach 5 th grade and are looking for a reading about rivers, you could add a filter to search for units at reading level 5. Then add another filter to look for readings. Then search for the term "river." Likewise, you could search for all resources related to the word "woodland" by searching on this term. Keep in mind that photos in a 1 st grade unit may still be useful for high school teachers and vice-versa so feel free to search beyond your grade level. This spreadsheet currently includes resources from the EEI science units. We will add resources from the history/social science units by fall of 2019.

EEI/NGSS Correlation Spreadsheet

Now you can search for EEI Curriculum content to support NGSS Performance Expectations (PE's). Access this Google Sheet and sort by: NGSS grade level, PE, EEI Unit, or unit reading level. The spreadsheet includes a brief EEI unit description and hyperlinks to the EEI unit webpages and correlation guides.

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Next Generation Science Standards Correlation Guides

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Next Generation Science Standards: Introduction to Three Dimensional Learning

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