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Content-integrated Lessons & Activities for upper elementary grades
The lessons and activities were developed with classroom teachers as part of several grant funded projects to integrate content areas and provide environment-based, outdoor learning opportunities for students. Please peruse the list of activities to find immersive, integrated, outdoor educational experiences for your students.
| Sound through the Lens of Birds |
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Science SOL |
Math SOL |
English SOL |
Social Science SOL |
| Aububon |
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| Bird Song Bioacoustics |
5.2 |
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| Mapping Migration |
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5.8, 5.10 |
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USI.1, WG.1, US1.2, VS.2, USI.2, USII.2, WG.4 |
| Spectrogram Analysis |
5.1g, 5.2b |
5.1, 5.2, 5.5 |
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| Virginia Rocks & Field Geology |
| Activity | Science SOL | Math SOL | English SOL | Social Science SOL |
| Geology Field Investigations |
5.1, 5.7 |
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5.1, 5.5k |
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| Mapping Rock Density |
5.1 a, b, g; 5.7 |
5.2, 5.5b, 5.8a, 5.9b |
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VS.2, USI.2d |
| Rock Cycle Game & Analysis |
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5.2, 5.5, 5.15 |
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| Connecting Pollination to Habitats, the Landscape, and the Watershed |
| Activity |
Science SOL |
Math SOL |
English SOL |
Social Science SOL |
| Habitat Mapping |
4.4, 4.5, 4.9 |
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VS.1, VS.2 |
| Insect Investigations |
4.4, 4.5, 4.9 |
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4.1f |
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| Plant and Insect Life Cycles |
4.4, 4.5, 4.9 |
4.4 , 4.5, 4.14 |
4.4e |
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| Pollination Garden design and planting |
4.1l, 4.9 a,b |
4.13, 4.21 |
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| Pollination Station |
4.1, 4.4, 4.5 |
4.14 |
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| What Garden Plants are Good for Pollinators? |
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4.1, 4.4, 4.6, 4.9 |
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| What Plant Where |
4.1, 4.4, 4.5 |
4.7 |
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| Schoolyard Watersheds: Place-Based watershed awareness |
| Activity |
Science SOL |
Math SOL |
English SOL |
Social Science SOL |
| Picture Perfect Literacy |
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4,4, 4.5, 4.6 |
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| Roof Models |
4.1, 4.9 |
4.8 |
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| Runaway Rain |
4.1, 4.6 b, 4.9 a |
4.4; 4.7 a; 4.8; 4.16 |
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| Schoolyard Surfaces |
4.1, 4.9 |
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VS.1i |
| Watershed Models |
4.1, 4.9 |
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VS.2 |
| Watershed Journaling/Newsletter |
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4.7, 4.8 |
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| Developing Literacy and Observation Skills with Trees
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| Activity |
Science SOL |
Math SOL |
English SOL |
Social Science SOL |
| American Chestnuts |
3.1, 3.6, 3.10 |
3.3, 3.10, 3.17, 3.19 |
3.1 |
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| Fiction & Non-fiction book pairing |
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3.1, 3.4, 3.5, 3.6 |
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| Investigation Station (Tree shadow/ length) |
3.1 |
3.4 |
3.1 |
3.6 |
| Pillbug book & observations |
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3.1, 3.3, 3.6 |
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| Tree Haiku |
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3.1,3.8, 3.10 |
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| Tree ID by Leaves (leaf observations) |
3.1 |
3.1 a,b,c |
3.1 |
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| Tree Planting & Tree care |
3.4, 3.7 a, 3.8 c, 3.9 d |
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3.1 |
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| Using a tree guide |
3.1c |
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3.1, 3.4b & f, 3.6 e & f, 3.7 b |
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| Trees as Habitats |
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Science SOL |
Math SOL |
English SOL |
Social Science SOL |
| Build a Tree Journal |
3.1 k |
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3.1, 3.6, 3.8, 3.9, 3.10 |
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| Decomposition station |
3.1, 3.5, 3.6, 3.8 |
3.9, 3.10, 3.17, 3.20 |
3.1 |
3.6 |
| Evergreen Tree ID |
3.1, 3.4 |
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3.1, 3.3, 3.4 |
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| Forest layers |
3.1 a,c,h,j,k, 3.4 a & b, 3.5 b, 3.6 b |
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3.1, 3.2 |
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| Grapes of Class (States of matter) |
3.1, 3.3c, 3.9 |
3.17 |
3.1 |
3.6 |
| How the forest grows (tree measurements) |
3.1, 3.8, 3.10 |
3.9, 3.17 |
3.1, 3.2, 3.4, 3.6, 3.7 |
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| Making a time capsule |
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3.1, 3.10 |
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| Making bird feeders |
3.10 |
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3.1 |
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| Properties of leaves |
3.1, 3.3 |
3.3 |
3.1 |
3.6 |
| Schoolyard Trees in Winter (Trees as habitat) |
3.1, 3.4, 3.6, 3.10 |
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3.1, 3.2 |
3.6 |
| Schoolyard Trees (Math- Tree Perimeter) |
3.1 a, c, h, k |
3.9, 3.14, 3.17 |
3.1 |
3.6 |
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Seed to Superlative (tree life cycle) |
3.8, 3.10 |
3.9, 3.17 |
3.1 |
3.6 |
| Seeds in Different Soils Experiment |
3.1, 3.7, 3.8 |
3.9, 3.17 |
3.1 |
3.6 |
| Tree planting & Tree Care |
3.4, 3.7a, 3.8c, 3.9d |
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3.1 |
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| Incredible Journey (Project WET) |
3.9 |
3.3, 3.7 |
3.1, 3.2 |
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These materials were developed as part of the following grant projects:
Tree Fund
Chesapeake Bay Trust
Clarke County Education Foundation
and with support from The Foundation for the State Arboretum of Virginia, Clarke County Public Schools, and Blandy Experimental Farm.
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