Keep Iowa Beautiful
I’m working with Keep Iowa Beautiful and the Waste Commission of Scott County to provide educators with a program guide and resources for teaching…
- Service learning
- Litter free schools
- Character
- Environmental education
…all organized around the Iowa Core and the Common Core State Standards. I’m using this post to run things by the Steering Committee, get reactions and involve them in pulling it together. I’ll make changes to the resources and continually update the committee as the program comes together. Download the Clean and Green k-2 Timeline; help us stay on task by posting comments to this page.
On March 31, the Steering Committee met for the first time and requested that the guide include a separate matrix for each grade level. The committee met again July 7; download the Clean and Green Committee notes.
Here are the resources we are using to develop the program guide–
- Environmental books and DVDs from University of Northern Iowa
- Celebrate Urban Birds Kit from Cornell University
Right now we’re focusing on Kindergarten–
- Download the Cricket Thermometer Lesson Plan
- Download the “Thinker’s Scavenger Hunt” Lesson Plan
- Download “The Worms Escaped!” Lesson Plan
- Download the People to People Lesson Plan
- Download the Collaboration with Nature and Math Lesson Plan
- Download the Exploring the Rainbow and Nature Lesson Plan
- Download the Program Processing Form Lesson Plan
- Download the Program Processing Form
- Download Litter is Waste Out Of Place Lesson Plan
- Download Composting with worms Lesson Plan
- UNI book list for environmental education
- Flat Stanley recycled art project with activities; the OFFICIAL Flat Stanley Project (he’s been all over the world!)
- Download the Papermaking Lesson Plan
- Download the Photographing a Math Problem Lesson Plan
- Download the Making Connections Lesson Plan
- Download the Power Animal Puppets Lesson Plan (making puppets)
- Download the Nature Recycles, Shouldn’t We All? Lesson Plan
- Download the Critter Building Lesson Plan
- Get the Edible Aquifer Instructions
and Second Grade–
- Download Collect and Recycle Lesson Plan
- Download Recycled Art Lesson Plan
- Download The School is a Mess Lesson Plan
- Download the Celebrate Urban Birds Lesson Plan
- Beginning Playground Pickup—Lesson from one of these sources–Save Our Earth: Alternative Uses for Common Trash or The School Rubbish Patrol
- Square of Life–Field Trip to Your Square (two hours)
- Square of Life–How Are We Alike and Different? (two class periods)
- Square of Life–Making a Class List (one hour)
- Square of Life–Reconstructing the Squares (2-3 hours over a 2-week period)
- Making Maps—(A Different Point of View from Discovering Barnegat Bay, No Student Left Indoors: Creating a Field Guide to Your Schoolyard, p. 98)
- School and Playground Map—Making Maps—A Different Point of View; Where I fit in My School
Download the KIB Matrix by clicking here, or on the grade level you want to look at.