Create and Use NGSS in your Schoolyard Habitat
Learn to create schoolyard habitats and the tools to use NGSS Science and Engineering Practices in the School Garden.
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Details:
When: September 16, 2021, 9:00am - 3:00pm
Where: Ceres Community Project Garden
1005 North Gravenstein Hwy, Sebastopol, CA, 95472
Fee: $45.00
Lunch Provided: @Jamsjoybungalow
When: September 16, 2021, 9:00am - 3:00pm
Where: Ceres Community Project Garden
1005 North Gravenstein Hwy, Sebastopol, CA, 95472
Fee: $45.00
Lunch Provided: @Jamsjoybungalow
Pollinators are essential to our environment. The ecological service they provide is necessary for the reproduction of over 85% of the world’s flowering plants, including more than two-thirds of the world’s crop species. Unfortunately, in many places, the essential service of pollination is at risk from habitat loss, pesticide use, and introduced diseases.
In the morning:
Using your School Garden as Habitat
Join Xerces staff members Maddy Kangas and Deedee Soto as they give a broad overview of the current status of monarchs and other pollinators. Learn how school gardens can play an important role in providing habitat for pollinators as we discuss:
Using your School Garden as Habitat
Join Xerces staff members Maddy Kangas and Deedee Soto as they give a broad overview of the current status of monarchs and other pollinators. Learn how school gardens can play an important role in providing habitat for pollinators as we discuss:
- habitat creation and restoration
- plant selection
- site preperation
- school wide management
- NGSS science practices
- observations through investigations
- collecting and communicating information
- constructing explanations
- designing solutions for real world problem solving
After Lunch:
Using NGSS Science and Engineering Practices in the School Garden
Learn how to use a school pollinator garden ecosystem for your students to engage and communicate as scientists. Through modeling participants will engage in NGSS science practices making observations through investigations, collecting and communicating information, modeling, and constructing explanations and designing solutions using the workshop site garden. Participants will further learn about various NGSS tools and environmental education resources for exploring school garden opportunities across grade bands.
Using NGSS Science and Engineering Practices in the School Garden
Learn how to use a school pollinator garden ecosystem for your students to engage and communicate as scientists. Through modeling participants will engage in NGSS science practices making observations through investigations, collecting and communicating information, modeling, and constructing explanations and designing solutions using the workshop site garden. Participants will further learn about various NGSS tools and environmental education resources for exploring school garden opportunities across grade bands.
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Maddy Kangas
At the Xerces Society, Maddy serves as the Monarch Butterfly Conservation Planner and NRCS Partner Biologist for the Central Coast of California, providing technical assistance on monarch conservation and habitat creation for producers, landowners, and land managers. Her previous work has included integrated pest and pollinator management, habitat restoration, and community outreach and education. Maddy completed her master’s degree in natural resources and environmental sciences at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign where she researched both native bee community composition and pest insect presence within agriculturally-based pollinator habitat recreations. |
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Deedee Soto
As a Pollinator Conservation Planner and NRCS Partner Biologist, Deedee works in the Central Valley of California providing support to agricultural producers, ranchers, and landowners on the planning and implementation of projects to benefit pollinators. Deedee also has diverse experience in botany and rangeland management; prior to joining Xerces, she worked for several years as a botany and range technician with the Forest Service in Colorado and Washington. She holds a bachelor’s degree in botany and environmental biology, with a minor in rangeland management, from Humboldt State University. When Deedee isn't at work, you can catch her botanizing outdoors! |
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Laura Powell
Laura is a former Secondary Science and History Social Studies teacher serving English Language Learners. Leveraging her Masters in Education: Curriculum, Teaching, and Learning, she historically works on environmental education curricula programs including Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) California state adopted curricula. Laura has planned, coordinated, and presented over a hundred curricula programs and NGSS educator workshops for state environmental education curricula projects. Laura has an immense amount of experience coaching and teaching educators in environmental education, science standards and instruction, and second language acquisition strategies and is focused on designing solutions for real world problem solving. |
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This workshop is hosted in partnership with Gold Ridge RCD. The Mission of the Gold Ridge Resource Conservation District is to work in partnership their community to conserve and protect the natural resources on which we all depend.
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QUESTIONS? Contact info@schoolgardens.org