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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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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
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
Environmental Science Current Event Project
Want your students to research and analyze science in the news? This product guides students to find an Environmental Science current event article that interests them, read the article, and analyze it. Students are provided with multiple websites to find an article on. They must identify the main idea and 5 facts from the article. They will then answer additional questions that prompt them to think about why the research from the article is important and how research on the findings should c
5th - 12th, Higher Education
Earth Sciences, Environment, Science
CCSS
CCRA.R.1
, CCRA.R.2
, CCRA.R.10
+15
Meat Production Methods Interactive Game - Clickable Google Slides & Notes
Have students explore the realities of the meat production industry with this interactive Google Slide game! Students will begin this "Choose Your Own Adventure" game by choosing between a running a CAFO (Concentrated Animal Feeding Operation) or a Free-Range Grazing farm. They will then move through the game as they make decisions about their meat production operation by clicking their selection on the Google Slide, which moves them to their next prompt to make a choice about. Students will
4th - 12th, Adult Education, Higher Education
Environment
NGSS
HS-LS2-7
, MS-LS2-3
, MS-LS2-5
+10
Mapping Thanksgiving Harvest (Interactive Map Analysis)
Looking for an assignment to give your students over Thanksgiving break or leading up to the holiday? Your students are sure to be THANKFUL for this fun and interactive Thanksgiving lesson. In this activity, students will investigate an interactive map showing where the main foods served during Thanksgiving are grown in the United States. They will answer questions that require them to read and interpret the data on the map, analyze statistics, and investigate what the harvest looks like close
5th - 12th
Environment, Informational Text
CCSS
RI.9-10.1
, CCRA.R.1
, CCRA.R.7
+5
Zero Waste Christmas Ornament Activity
Give the gift of sustainability to your students this holiday season! This holiday recycling activity has students design and construct a zero waste Christmas ornament or holiday decoration. First, students are provided with a background reading: the first paragraph discusses about how the holidays send more waste to landfill than any other time of the year, and the difficulties of recycling old or broken Christmas tree ornaments; the second paragraph introduces the concept of zero waste, or cra
4th - 12th
Environment, Informational Text
CCSS
RI.8.10
, RI.9-10.10
, CCRA.R.10
Environmental Impacts of Valentine's Day (Analysis + Educational Campaign)
Say "I love you" to Mother Earth this Valentine's Day with an environmental impact analysis of the holiday! This activity allows students to investigate five different negative impacts of Valentine's Day 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. Discover how various Valentine's Day traditions affect the environment. Students will read about five different en
5th - 12th
Environment, Science
CCSS
RI.9-10.10
, SL.9-10.4
, SL.9-10.5
+6
Community Map Project
Test your students’ ability to create a map and encourage productive class discussions with this creative Community Map project. This project is great for distance learning, hybrid models, or face to face lessons because it can be adapted for students to create their maps on paper or on Google Drawings. This resource is appropriate for students of many ages and across many subjects! We use it in science class but it would also fit into a social studies or geography course. The project yields
4th - 12th, Higher Education
Earth Sciences, Geography, Social Studies
"I have, Who has?" State Capitals (Digital & Printable Review Game!)
“I have, Who has?” is a classic review strategy used to engage students in a collaborative, interactive game! This “I have, Who has?”, which involves the recall of state capitals corresponding to each United States state, has been adapted for distance learning by creating these cards in a Google Slideshow. Each student is assigned one or more cards that has the name of a state capital, and beneath, a state to call out. Each student must listen for their classmate to call out the state that has t
4th - 8th
Geography, Other (Social Studies), Social Studies
Telling Time Google Form Assignment
This assignment will test a student's ability to read analog clock faces while also telling them a story of a bank robber. They must determine the time shown on a clock face at four times during their investigation as a detective, interviewing the bank teller, watching security camera footage in the bank, interviewing a witness, and finally, tracking down the robber. Your purchase gives you access to a Google Form that can be easily distributed to students during distance learning. The form gi
K - 3rd
Math, Measurement
CCSS
1.MD.B.3
, 2.MD.C.7
, 3.MD.A.1
+2
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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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