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California’s Climate-Smart Farms

Provided by: Center for Ecoliteracy
Lesson Plans Grades 6-8

Synopsis

  • This collection of resources includes five lessons teachers can use to introduce students to the relationship between climate change impacts and agriculture, using California farms as examples.
  • Each lesson has three activities that each take about 50 minutes.
  • The lessons feature California farms, located in Marin, Sonoma, Yolo, Santa Cruz, and San Diego counties.
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Subjects: Biology, Earth and Space Sciences
Authors: Center for Ecoliteracy
Region: California
Languages: English

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Center for Ecoliteracy
The Center for Ecoliteracy advances the teaching and modeling of sustainable practices in K–12 schools. The organization builds partnerships and the capacity of K–12 schools to support healthy, sustainable school communities and food systems change in schools. The Center for Ecoliteracy leads systems change initiatives, publishes original books and resources, facilitates conferences and professional development, and provides strategic consulting. The organization works at multiple levels of scale, with local, regional, state, and national programs.

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