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Los Angeles, California, United States
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Gen and Zoe both work at Title I schools in historically underserved communities in Los Angeles. Our school populations are predominantly students of color; many are soon to be first generation college students, and are often not native English speakers.
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Ecosystems/Ecology Poster Project
This product guides students through the creation of a poster of an ecosystem that illustrates all of the key concepts learned in a unit on ecology. Students begin by drawing abiotic and biotic factors (plants and animals) of an assigned/chosen ecosystem and then add various symbols and labels as they go to illustrate concepts such as food webs, trophic levels, transfer of energy, limiting factors, keystone species, and more. This project assesses student understanding of how ecosystems functio
8th - 12th
Biology, Environment, Science
CCSS, NGSS
CCRA.SL.4
, CCRA.SL.5
, CCRA.SL.6
+32
Kiss the Ground (Netflix Documentary) Movie Viewing Guide
This product is a viewing guide to the Netflix documentary movie “Kiss the Ground” about soil and climate change. Note that this movie guide accompanies the full documentary version (86 minutes)! The viewing guide is 20 questions: some are fill in the blank, some are short short answer questions asking students to record significant statistics from the documentary, reason cause and effect, or relationships between concepts elaborated in the film. Use this worksheet in your Earth or Environmental
6th - 12th
Earth Sciences, Environment, Health
NGSS
HS-ESS2-5
, MS-ESS2-2
, HS-ESS2-6
+5
FULL YEAR CURRICULUM: AP Environmental Science (9 UNITS - PACKET & SLIDES)
This purchase includes 9 unit plans, including a unit packet for students and complete, ready-to-use slideshow for each unit in the CED for AP Environmental Science (APES). NOW UPDATED TO INCLUDE a unit planning guide/overview for every unit as well! This bundle was designed for distance learning, but can easily be adapted for settings that are 100% online synchronous instruction, a hybrid model, or in person. ***Save money by buying this bundle! Pay the equivalent of BUY 7 UNITS, GET 2 FREE
9th - 12th
Earth Sciences, Environment, Science
AP Environmental Science - Unit 1: The Living World - Ecosystems PACKET & SLIDES
This purchase is a 5-day unit plan for the first unit in the CED for AP Environmental Science (APES): Unit 1: The Living World - Ecosystems. Provided with your purchase is a unit packet for students, a ready-to-use teacher slideshow, a planning guide/overview of the unit for teachers, and an answer key for teacher use. Great for distance learning or for use in the classroom! The unit breakdown is as follows: Part 1: Ecosystem Structure and Flow of EnergyPart 2: Primary Productivity and Energy
9th - 12th
Earth Sciences, Environment, Science
NGSS
HS-LS2-3
, HS-LS2-7
, HS-LS2-5
+2
My Octopus Teacher (Netflix Documentary) Movie Viewing Guide
This product is a viewing guide to the Oscar-award winning Netflix documentary movie “ My Octopus Teacher” about one man's beautiful relationship with an octopus, kelp forests, biodiversity and ecosystems in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of South Africa, as told by filmmaker Craig Foster. This documentary won Academy Awards for "Best Documentary Feature", "Best Documentary", "Producer of Documentary", and "Directing - Documentaries" in the 2021 Oscars! The viewing guide is 30 questions: some
6th - 12th
Biology, Earth Sciences, Environment
NGSS
MS-ESS3-2
, MS-ESS3-1
, HS-ESS3-3
+8
AP Environmental Science Unit 4: Earth Systems & Resources PACKET & SLIDES
This purchase is a 7-day unit plan for the fourth unit in the CED for AP Environmental Science (APES): Unit 4: Earth Systems & Resources. Provided with your purchase is a unit packet (with answer key) for students, a ready-to-use teacher slideshow, and a planning guide/overview of the unit for teachers. This unit is designed to be used for 100% online synchronous instruction, a hybrid model, or fully in person. The unit breakdown is as follows: Part 1: Plate TectonicsPart 2: SoilPart 3: Atm
9th - 12th
Earth Sciences, Environment, Science
NGSS
HS-ESS2-1
, HS-ESS1-4
, HS-ESS2-4
+5
AP Environmental Science Unit 6: Energy Resources & Consumption PACKET & SLIDES
This purchase is a 7-day unit plan for the sixth unit in the CED for AP Environmental Science (APES): Unit 6: Energy Resources and Consumption. Provided with your purchase is a unit packet for students (WITH ANSWER KEY), a ready-to-use teacher slideshow, a template for a renewable energy jigsaw activity, and a planning guide/overview for the unit. Great for distance learning! This unit is designed to be used for 100% online synchronous instruction, a hybrid model, or in person. The unit breakdow
9th - 12th
Earth Sciences, Environment, Science
NGSS
HS-ESS3-3
, HS-ESS3-2
, HS-ESS3-1
+3
"Flint's Deadly Water" (PBS FRONTLINE) Movie Viewing Guide
This product is a viewing guide to the PBS FRONTLINE documentary movie “ Flint's Deadly Water" about the Legionnaire outbreak/epidemic during the Flint, Michigan water crisis, available to stream for FREE on PBS's website and YouTube. (Note: this refers to the 53-minute documentary film from Frontline: Season 2019, Episode 17) The viewing guide is 25 questions: 2 questions before the movie, 21 questions during the film, and 2 reflection questions after the movie. Some questions short answer ques
6th - 12th
Earth Sciences, Environment, Health
AP Environmental Science Unit 3: Populations PACKET & SLIDES (Full Unit)
This purchase is a 6-day unit plan for the third unit in the CED for AP Environmental Science (APES): Unit 3: Populations. Provided with your purchase is a unit packet for students, an answer key of the student packet, a ready-to-use teacher slideshow, and a planning guide/overview of the unit for teachers. Great for distance learning! This unit is designed to be used for 100% online synchronous instruction, a hybrid model, or in person. The unit breakdown is as follows: Part 1: Characteristics
9th - 12th
Earth Sciences, Environment, Science
NGSS
HS-LS2-1
, HS-LS2-2
AP Environmental Science Unit 2: The Living World - Biodiversity PACKET & SLIDES
This purchase is a 5-day unit plan for the second unit in the CED for AP Environmental Science (APES): Unit 2: The Living World - Biodiversity. Provided with your purchase is a unit packet for students, a ready-to-use teacher slideshow, and a planning guide/overview of the unit for teachers. Great for distance learning! This unit is designed to be used for 100% online synchronous instruction, a hybrid model, or in person. The unit breakdown is as follows: Part 1: Introduction to BiodiversityPar
9th - 12th
Earth Sciences, Environment, Science
NGSS
HS-LS4-6
, HS-LS4-4
, HS-LS2-6
+2
AP Environmental Science Unit 5: Land and Water Use PACKET & SLIDES
This purchase is a 9-day unit plan for the fifth unit in the CED for AP Environmental Science (APES): Unit 5: Land and Water Use. Provided with your purchase is a unit packet for students, a ready-to-use teacher slideshow, a virtual lab, a jamboard for a collaborative activity, an Among Us-inspired review game, a water tracker homework assignment, a teacher overview/planning guide, and updated now to include an answer key. This unit is designed to be used for 100% online synchronous instruction,
9th - 12th
Earth Sciences, Environment, Science
NGSS
HS-ESS3-3
, HS-ESS3-2
, HS-ESS3-1
+1
AP Environmental Science Unit 8: Aquatic & Terrestrial Pollution PACKET & SLIDES
This purchase is a 9-day unit plan for the eighth unit in the CED for AP Environmental Science (APES): Unit 8: Aquatic and Terrestrial Pollution. Provided with your purchase is a unit packet for students, answer key for the packet, a ready-to-use teacher slideshow, and a unit overview/planning guide. Embedded inside the teacher slideshow are further resources, including a Kahoot game to review wastewater treatment and a Quizlet set to review all of unit 8. Great for distance learning! This unit
9th - 12th
Earth Sciences, Environment, Science
NGSS
HS-ESS3-4
Evidence for Continental Drift Stations
This activity allows students to investigate five pieces of evidence to support the Theory of Continental Drift and record their evidence in an easy to understand digital notebook. Students will examine different types of evidence including an online Pangea puzzle activity, multiple short readings, and a video on spider distribution around the world. Students collect their findings by drag-and-dropping evidence onto a World Map in the attached interactive notebook. This ready-to-teach produc
5th - 12th
Earth Sciences, Environment, Science
NGSS
MS-ESS2-3
, MS-ESS2-2
, HS-ESS1-5
+2
Environmental Impacts of Christmas (Holiday Analysis + Educational Campaign)
Give the gift of sustainability to your students this holiday season! This activity allows students to investigate five different negative impacts of the holidays on the environment, then utilize their creativity skills and new knowledge to launch an educational campaign to raise awareness and suggest solutions on one issue of their choosing. Students will read about five different environmental impacts of the holidays and answer reading comprehension questions. Each environmental impact include
5th - 12th
Environment, Informational Text
CCSS
RI.9-10.10
, SL.9-10.4
, SL.9-10.5
+6
Environmental Impacts of Halloween (Analysis and Educational Campaign)
What’s the scariest part of Halloween? The environmental impacts (or teaching on Halloween)! This fun and interactive Halloween lesson is sure to be a TREAT for your students. This activity allows students to investigate five different negative impacts of Halloween on the environment, then utilize their creativity skills and new knowledge to launch an educational campaign to raise awareness and suggest solutions on one issue of their choosing. Students will read about five different environmen
5th - 12th
Environment, Informational Text
CCSS
RI.9-10.10
, SL.9-10.4
, SL.9-10.5
+6
Aquaculture "Deep Dive" (Nat Geo Article + Webquest)
This activity asks students to complete a Deep Dive to analyze a National Geographic interactive article about aquaculture through guided webquest questions and analysis (graphic organizer). By the end of this lesson, students will be able to compare benefits and drawbacks of aquaculture on four scales: environmental, ecological, economic, and impact on humans. This lesson was originally designed for AP Environmental Science, to satisfy topic 5.16 Aquaculture in the new Course & Exam Descripti
9th - 12th, Higher Education
Earth Sciences, Environment
NGSS
HS-ESS3-3
, HS-ESS3-2
, HS-ESS3-1
+1
Flint, Michigan Water Crisis Digital Learning Packet (Environmental Justice)
This is a digital learning packet focused on the causes, effects, and implications of the Flint, Michigan Water Crisis. Students are asked to use internet resources to collect evidence, analyze sources, and argue their opinion. This packet introduces students to water quality issues through a social justice and environmental justice lens and could be used in a science, English, history, or social studies setting. The packet consists of 6 different tasks that students can complete independentl
6th - 12th
English Language Arts, Environment, Social Studies
CCSS, NGSS
RI.9-10.1
, RST.9-10.1
, WHST.9-10.1
+2
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Mission Blue (Netflix Documentary) Movie Viewing Guide
This product is a viewing guide to the Netflix documentary movie “Mission Blue” about the life and work of Dr. Sylvia Earle, an oceanographer and marine biologist. The viewing guide is 30 questions: some are fill in the blank, some are short short answer questions asking students to record significant statistics from the documentary, reason cause and effect, or relationships between concepts elaborated in the film. Use this worksheet in your Earth or Environmental Science or Ocean/Marine Scienc
6th - 12th
Earth Sciences, Environment
NGSS
HS-LS2-7
, MS-LS2-3
, HS-ESS3-2
+6
"Plastic Wars" (PBS FRONTLINE) Movie Viewing Guide
This product is a viewing guide to the PBS FRONTLINE documentary movie “ Plastic Wars” about the history of plastics and plastic recycling, available to stream for FREE on PBS's website and YouTube. (Note: this refers to the 54-minute documentary film from Frontline: Season 38, Episode 15) The viewing guide is 30 questions: 3 questions before the movie, 25 questions during the film, and 2 reflection questions after the movie. Some questions are fill in the blank and some are short short answer q
6th - 12th
Earth Sciences, Environment
Which Bin? Recycling: Google Slides Review Game
Want to improve your students’ recycling skills? Practice sorting waste items with your class using this fun, interactive Google Slide activity. This product consists of a Google Slide deck where students are shown various waste items and must select what bin to put the item in - either compost (green bin), recycling (blue bin), or trash (black bin). With the Slide Deck in presentation mode, students must select the image of the correct bin on each slide and once successful, will automatically
PreK - 12th, Adult Education, Higher Education
Environment, General Science
NGSS
5-ESS3-1
, HS-ESS3-2
, HS-ESS3-4
+1
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About the store
Experience
Gen and Zoe both work at Title I schools in historically underserved communities in Los Angeles. Our school populations are predominantly students of color; many are soon to be first generation college students, and are often not native English speakers.
Teaching style
Project-based learning
Hands-on, experiential learning
Real-world phenomena
Awards & shining teacher moments
Winners of the 3M National Teaching Fellowship
Teach for America Alum
My own education history
Gen is a graduate of Duke University, where she studied Biology and Earth and Ocean Science.
Zoe is a graduate of UC Berkeley, where she studied Neurobiology, Psychology, and Spanish, and has a Master's degree in Urban Education from Loyola Marymount University.
They both hold Single Subject Biology Teaching Credentials in the state of California.
Additional biographical information
Hi! We are Gen and Zoe, two environmental science teachers living and teaching in Los Angeles, California. We love hands-on, interactive, student-centered learning anchored in real-world phenomena that centers environmental/social justice. We center our teaching around the communities in which we teach, so you'll find some products that are specific to Los Angeles in our store. In our own classrooms, we strive for project-based learning by having students work towards a culminating goal multimedia project at the end of each unit! We post everything from one-day lessons to full unit plans. We love making visually appealing products that are ready to use and easy to understand. From our own experience, we know that the best products develop through fruitful collaboration, and we love working together to share our lessons, developed with love, with all of you! Feel free to contact us with any questions, comments, or requests! We love to read your feedback :)
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