https://www.franklinswcd.org/swiftlets This link offers free Environmental Education lessons that align with Ohio Department of Education standards. Please check them out and feel free to share. Hopefully this will help during this Stay at Home protocol.
Please contact Gallia SWCD if you have ideas for the next Farm City Day as we will have planning meetings this fall, 2019.
Soils presentations -the students get to feel the texture. They also test the soils for water filtration rates and ID the soil type. Educational standards KPS1, 3ESS1, 4PS1, 6ESS4, 6ESS5, 7ESS1
Enviroscape- demonstrates the water cylce in 3-D format and helps educate people/children about where their drinking water comes from and where their waste water goes. Educational standards KESS1, aLS1, 2ESS2, 2LS1, 3ESS3, 4LS1
Ground Water Model-demonstrates how water moves underground and contaminates that could pollute the water. Educational standards KESS1, 1LS1, 2ESS2, 2LS13ESS2, 4ESS1, 5ESS3, 6ESS5, 7ESS1
Streamulater– shows floods, stream movement, oxbows, meandering streams, erosion, water cycle. Educational standards KESS1, 1ESS1, 2ESS2, 2LS1, 3ESS2, 4ESS1-3, 5ESS3, 7ESS1
Commuinty Garden- hands on planting, weeding, watering, & harvesting (might add composting in 2019) Educational standards KLS1, 1LS1, 1LS2, 2ESS2, 3LS3, 4LS1, 5LS2, 6ESS4, 7ESS1, 7LS1, 8LS1
(K-5)Lorax storyboard– allows students to place the felt pieces on the board as we read the story with the theme of forestry conservation. Educational standards KLS1, 1LS1, 1LS2, 4LS1
Arbor Day Presentations (4th grade gets free trees 1st or 2nd week of April) Other grades can request presentations. The last Friday of April. Please call to schedule AHEAD of time, Thanks!
Augmented Reality Sandbox- (new 2019) middle & high school teachers can borrow for a week. Terms that might be discussed during the lesson (topography, contour lines, erosion, deposition, surface elevation, floodplain, hydrology, & land forms. Educational standards 4ESS1-3, 6PS4, 7ESS1, 7PS3, 8ESS3, etc.
Rock Cycle Lesson- (new 2019) metamorphic, sedimentary & igneous rock. Educational standards 3ESS1, 4ESS2, 4PS1, 6ESS1-5, 8ESS2-3
Tree Kit- take you studnets outside with this kit of 12 tree & shrub identification pocket guides, 7 tree measuring sticks, 12 animal guide books, and some animal sounds cds. Educational standards KLS1, KLS2, 1LS1, 1LS2, 3LS1, 4LS1
Emeral Ash Borer Kit- samples of the tree pests donated by ODNR Division of Forestry Educational standards KLS2, 1LS1-2, 2LS1, 3ESS3, 3LS2
Water Testing Kits- 50 test bags & manual guide. Educational standards 7ESS1
Flossy Milking Cow Display- promotes dairy farmers donated by local FFA chapters. Educational standards KLS1, 1LS2, 3LS1-3
Harvest kit –promotes Agriculture donated by Farm Bureau
Dairy DVD —promotes dairy farmers donated by American Dairy Association
Life Cycle Books- free to borrow for classrooms: ant, bat, beaver, bird, butterfly, crayfish, earthworm, flower, frog, honeybee, misquito, salmon, spider, tree, wolf Educational standards KLS1, KLS2, 1LS1, 1LS2, 3LS1-3, 4LS1, 5LS1, 5LS2
other books- Curious Critters, State Coloring pages, Lorax, The Giving Tree, Why Would Anyone Want to Cut Down a Tree?
Commuinty Garden- hands on planting, weeding, watering, & harvesting (might add composting in 2019) Educational standards KLS1, 1LS1, 1LS2, 2ESS2, 3LS3, 4LS1, 5LS2, 6ESS4, 7ESS1, 7LS1, 8LS1
(K-5)Lorax storyboard– allows students to place the felt pieces on the board as we read the story with the theme of forestry conservation. Educational standards KLS1, 1LS1, 1LS2, 4LS1
Arbor Day Presentations (4th grade gets free trees 1st or 2nd week of April) Other grades can request presentations. The last Friday of April. Please call to schedule AHEAD of time, Thanks!
Augmented Reality Sandbox- (new 2019) middle & high school teachers can borrow for a week. Terms that might be discussed during the lesson (topography, contour lines, erosion, deposition, surface elevation, floodplain, hydrology, & land forms. Educational standards 4ESS1-3, 6PS4, 7ESS1, 7PS3, 8ESS3, etc.
Rock Cycle Lesson- (new 2019) metamorphic, sedimentary & igneous rock. Educational standards 3ESS1, 4ESS2, 4PS1, 6ESS1-5, 8ESS2-3
Tree Kit- take you studnets outside with this kit of 12 tree & shrub identification pocket guides, 7 tree measuring sticks, 12 animal guide books, and some animal sounds cds. Educational standards KLS1, KLS2, 1LS1, 1LS2, 3LS1, 4LS1
Emeral Ash Borer Kit- samples of the tree pests donated by ODNR Division of Forestry Educational standards KLS2, 1LS1-2, 2LS1, 3ESS3, 3LS2
Water Testing Kits- 50 test bags & manual guide. Educational standards 7ESS1
Flossy Milking Cow Display- promotes dairy farmers donated by local FFA chapters. Educational standards KLS1, 1LS2, 3LS1-3
Harvest kit –promotes Agriculture donated by Farm Bureau
Dairy DVD —promotes dairy farmers donated by American Dairy Association
Life Cycle Books- free to borrow for classrooms: ant, bat, beaver, bird, butterfly, crayfish, earthworm, flower, frog, honeybee, misquito, salmon, spider, tree, wolf Educational standards KLS1, KLS2, 1LS1, 1LS2, 3LS1-3, 4LS1, 5LS1, 5LS2
other books- Curious Critters, State Coloring pages, Lorax, The Giving Tree, Why Would Anyone Want to Cut Down a Tree?
Skins & Skulls Trunk– allows a close up look of wild animals and covers terms like: camouflage, nocturnal, carnivore, omnivore, herbivore, endangered, extinct, etc.Educational standards KLS1, KLS2, 1LS1, 1LS2, 3LS1
Bat Trunk, Bear Trunk, Bird Trunk, Tree Trunk– partnership with ODNR-Division of Wildlife to bring to classroom– terms like hibernation, migration, growth rings, leaf rubbings, etc.
Bat Trunk, Bear Trunk, Bird Trunk, Tree Trunk– partnership with ODNR-Division of Wildlife to bring to classroom– terms like hibernation, migration, growth rings, leaf rubbings, etc.