If These Walls Could Teach
“Integrate the sustainable features of a school
facility with the school’s educational mission.”
- USGBC
Goals for Northside Elementary
Use static signage and interactive displays together
Educate the end user about the building
Add picture of dashboard
Goals for Northside Elementary
Use static signage and interactive displays together
Connect the static and active signage
Connect the static and active signage
Placement of signage
Placement of signage
Connect the static and active signage
Educate the end user about the building
Integrate sustainability into the required curriculum
Teachers Deliver content on many levels
Visual/Spatial Learner – Pictures and Images
Auditory Learner – Sounds
Verbal Learner – Speaking
Kinesthetic Learner – Hands-on
Mathematical Learner – Logical Learner
Understand Educational Styles
Students Retain:
•
10%
of what they read
•20%
of what they hear
•
30%
,
if they see visuals and hear an explanation
•
50%
,
if they watch someone do something while explaining
•Almost 90%
,
if they do the job themselves, even if only as a
simulation.
Federation of American Scientists (2006):
“Harnessing the power of video games for learning”
Delivery and Retention
SOCIAL STUDIES
SCIENCE
MATH
K.G.2 Understand the interaction
between humans and the environment.
K.G.2.1 Explain how people adapt to weather conditions.
K.G.2.2 Explain ways people use
environmental resources to meet basic needs and wants (shelter, food, clothing, etc.)
K.P.2 Understand how objects are described based on their
physical properties and how they are used.
K.P.2.1 Classify objects by observable physical properties (including size, color, shape, texture, weight and flexibility). K.P.2.2 Compare the observable physical properties of different kinds of materials (clay, wood, cloth, paper, etc) from which objects are made and how they are used.
K.MD.3 Classify objects into given
categories; count the number of objects in each category and sort the categories by count.
K.CC .1-3 Know number names and the count sequence
K.CC.4-5 Count to tell the number of objects
K.CC. 6-7 Compare numbers K.OA.1-5 Understand addition as putting together and adding to; and understand subtraction as taking apart and taking from.
Lesson Plan Development
SCIENCE
K.P.2 Understand how objects are described based on their
physical properties and how they are used.
K.P.2.1 Classify objects by observable physical properties (including size, color, shape, texture, weight and flexibility). K.P.2.2 Compare the observable physical properties of different kinds of materials (clay, wood, cloth, paper, etc) from which objects are made and how they are used.
Lesson Plan Development
SCIENCE
K.P.2 Understand how objects are described based on their
physical properties and how they are used.
K.P.2.1 Classify objects by observable physical properties (including size, color, shape, texture, weight and flexibility). K.P.2.2 Compare the observable physical properties of different kinds of materials (clay, wood, cloth, paper, etc) from which objects are made and how they are used.
…develop the unit
using the 3 Little Pigs
to
talk about the materials that the pigs used to
build each house. This seems like a perfect
connection to using the building … Any
suggestions?
Lesson Plan Development
SOCIAL STUDIES
K.G.2 Understand the interaction
between humans and the environment.
K.G.2.1 Explain how people adapt to weather conditions.
K.G.2.2 Explain ways people use environmental resources to meet basic needs and wants (shelter, food, clothing, etc.)
SCIENCE
K.P.2 Understand how objects are described based on their
physical properties and how they are used.
K.P.2.1 Classify objects by observable physical properties (including size, color, shape, texture, weight and flexibility).
K.P.2.2 Compare the observable physical properties of different kinds of materials (clay, wood, cloth, paper, etc) from which objects are made and how they are used.
Lesson Plan Development
Science and Social Studies together with a Literacy connection
Using the building and common building materials
Highlighting the sustainable aspects
Folding it into what the teachers are already planning
Three Pigs Teaching
Solution
MATH
K.MD.3 Classify objects into given
categories; count the number of objects in each category and sort the categories by count.
K.CC .1-3 Know number names and the count sequence
K.CC.4-5 Count to tell the number of objects
K.CC. 6-7 Compare numbers K.OA.1-5 Understand addition as putting together and adding to; and understand subtraction as taking apart and taking from.
The Math is
ALWAYS
there!
Kindergarten Unit Example
Math is always there
Lesson Plan Development
Math is always there
Integrate presentations and building tours
Current lesson plan presentations
Curriculum
SOCIAL
STUDIES
SCIENCE
MATH
5.G.1 Understand how human activity has and continues
to shape the United States.
5.G.1.2 Explain the positive and negative effects of human activity on the physical environment of the United States, past and present.
5.G.1.3 Exemplify how technological advances (communication, transportation and agriculture) have allowed people to overcome geographic limitations.
Plans and pictures showing how the school site was different before and after development. Discuss where we grow things in agriculture and school gardens. Discuss waste removal and landfills.
Incorporate information on landfill diversion and current composting program.
Discuss local material use as method of “overcoming” geographic limitation
5.P.3 Explain how the properties of some materials change as a result of heating and cooling.
5.P.3.1 Explain the effects of the transfer of heat (either by direct contact or at a distance) that occurs between objects at different temperatures.
(conduction, convection or radiation)
5.P.3.2 Explain how heating and cooling affect some materials and how this relates to their purpose and practical applications.
Heat transfer: teach when, how, and why the mini blinds should be adjusted.
Investigate rooftop garden
Investigate heat transfer by creating experiments with different roof top types and colors – plants Examine solar hot water system and preheat tank. Explain how heat transfers from sun to glycol to water. Discuss and examine passive solar heating Examine common building materials and reactions to thermal expansion. Discuss mitigation.
5.MD.2 Make a line plot to display a data set of measurements in fractions of a unit. Use operations on fractions to solve problems involving this
information presented in line plot.
5.OA
Write and interpret numerical expressions. (5.OA.1-2); Analyze patterns and
relationships (5.OA.3)
5.NBT
Understand the place value system (5.NBT.1-4); Perform operations with multi-digit whole numbers and with decimals to hundredths (5.NBT.5-7)
Depending on how data is displayed on the Dashboard - Convert like measurement units within a given
measurement system . Understand the place value system
Perform operations with multi-digit whole numbers and with decimals to hundredths Apply and extend previous understandings of multiplication and division to multiply and divide fractions
Incorporate water meter locations into word problems covering all operations noted above
Continue the lesson plan development and cross course integration
Develop long term and short term projects
Next Steps
Garden Roof
Analemma
Expand to other schools, higher grades and more advanced course study
Social Studies
HS Civics and Economics:
CE.E.1 Understand economies, markets and the role economic factors play in making economic decisions
CE.E.1.1 Compare how individuals and Governments utilize scare resources
CE.E.1.4 Analyze the ways in which incentives and profits influence what is produced and distributed in a
market economy
