Additional Resources

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• An Educator's Guide to the Meaningful Watershed Educational Experience (MWEE)
• A Framework for K-12 Science Education: Practices, Crosscutting Concepts, and Core Ideas
• MWEE Planning Tools Toolbox: The Planning Tools Toolbox has resources you can use to help plan a MWEE.
  • Planning tools include:
    • Think Cloud (PDF, 59 KB)
    • Incorporating Outdoor Field Experiences (PDF, 117 KB)
    • Environmental Literacy Model (PDF, 112 KB)
    • Audit Tool (PDF, 347 KB)
• MWEE Student Worksheet Toolbox: The Student Worksheets Toolbox has resources you can use to help guide student-directed learning. These resources are designed to be used by or with students and can be printed out and used as worksheets, or you could enlarge them and create a collaborative working space in your classroom.
  • Student worksheets include:
    • Asking Questions and Planning Investigations (PDF, 77 KB)
    • Claim, Evidence, Reasoning (PDF, 81 KB)
    • Moving from Claims to Informed Action (PDF, 76 KB)
    • Choosing an Action Project (PDF, 147 KB)
    • Environmental Action Planning (PDF, 314 KB)