Protecting Our Watersheds!
4th Grade Curriculum
Theme: Food Webs & Ecosystems
Nine immersive lessons ranging from soil and weathering to coastal marine ecosystems. Students experience hands-on learning through classroom experiments culminating in an end of the year field trip to visit the lower San Luis Obispo Creek Estuary along the Bob Jones Trail including local interactive field journal activities.
Lesson 1
Soil
English Lesson Plan
Plan de Lección de Español
Soil Scientist Interview
Soil Art Activity
Lesson 2
Weathering
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Lesson 3
Erosion & Deposition
Lesson 4
The Gold Rush and our Watersheds
Lesson 5
Local Ecosystems
Lesson 6
Food Webs
Lesson 7
Plant and Algae Adaptations
Lesson 8
Animal Adaptations
Lesson 9
Coastal Marine Ecosystems
Harold J. Miossi Charitable Trust & San Luis Coastal Unified School District Partnerships
“We appreciate the Miossi Charitable Trust and Creek Lands Conservation for helping San Luis Coastal Unified School District to engage students in outdoor nature experiences” -Kimberly McGrath, Assistant Superintendent for Educational Services at (SLCUSD)
“This opportunity to support SLCUSD at a level that can engage every student in learning to love and protect Central Coast ecology is in keeping with the legacy Harold J. Miossi wanted to leave” -Howard Carroll, Trustee of the Harold J. Miossi Charitable Trust
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