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Common Core 4th Grade Environmental Science Lesson Plans For California Teachers, Gillian Schoenfeld
Common Core 4th Grade Environmental Science Lesson Plans For California Teachers, Gillian Schoenfeld
Natural Resources Management and Environmental Sciences
This project and its analyses were conducted to assist California fourth grade elementary school teachers in adjusting to teaching Common Core standards and science curriculum in their classrooms. The project included the creation of lesson plans, which could be utilized throughout the state of California.
As the Common Core standards, California’s Next Generation Science Standards for K- 12, were just proposed in June of 2013, these lesson plans would help teachers update their lessons and provide them materials and concepts of how to do so. These lessons provide higher-order thinking for students, which is the whole concept of the new …