Environmental Education (Acorns)

GPS BOXES

Welcome to a new Environmental Education year 2010-2011

We have designed boxes that contain experiments that correspond to the science unit you are studying. We call them GPS BOXES (since they follow our GPS standards for Science).

The table below describes the GPS for each grade and the contents of the boxes. Click on the topic to read the instructions of the activities.

THIS SCHECULDE IS STILL BEING UPGRADED. IT IS NOT 100% CORRECT YET

	Kindergarten	First grade	Second grade
September	Plants Key to steam and leaf Cards Garden Plot Hot to grow	Plants Garden Plot Hot to grow	Stars and Constellations
October	Insects and Spiders	Weather Patterns	Sun and Moon
November	Day and Night Skies	Changes in Water	Causes of change
December	Rocks and Soils	Light and Shadows	Properties of Matter
January	Physical Properties	Sounds	Sources of Energy
February	Motion	Magnets	Pushes and pulls
March	Gravity	No EE BOX, but we need the volunteers for the puppet show	Butterflies Wed March 9th Presentation Instructions
PRESENTATIONS	Reptile Presentation March 31st and Friday April 1st	Pollution Play (puppet show) Wed March 30th
May	Parents and Offspring	Animals and habitats	Frog Frog Life Cycle

BACK TO Environmental Education

We are always looking for class volunteers. It is a great way to get into the classroom, sometimes on a monthly basis, and do fun activities with your child. Please contact any of the team members below if you are interested.

The Environmental Education team

Maureen Richards - Kindergarten Coordinator maureen.richards@yahoo.com
Christy McAllister - 1st Grade Coordinator christy.mcallister@me.com
Sarika Bahatia- 2nd Grade Coordinator sarika.bhatia@gmail.com
Kristan Goldfein -3rd Grade Coordinator kristan.goldfein@gmail.com
Liliana Brenner - 4th Grade Coordinator and Vice President of EE liliana@brenner-family.net
Vicki Anderson - 5th Grade Coordinator vfanderson@gmail.com

Thank you so much for your support,

Liliana Brenner
VP Environmental Edducation