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Cultivating Connection: CASE's Environmental Literacy Committee Brings Science to Life Across California
California science educators are transforming environmental education through collaboration and shared experiences. At the heart of this movement is CASE and its Environmental Literacy Committee, which is focused on building bridges between…
Seeds to Solutions - A New Environmental Literacy Resource for Grades K-12
Seeds to Solutions offers free, California-specific environmental lessons for K–12 students, empowering them to explore challenges like wildfires, water, and air quality while developing real-world solutions.
CASE Celebrates the 2025 Earth Day Bookmark Contest Winners and Runner-Ups
CASE is proud to recognize the winners and runner-ups of our inaugural Earth Day Bookmark Contest! With nearly 1,000 student submissions across TK–12, this contest showcased the creativity and environmental passion of California’s young artists.
Teaching Towards a Sustainable Future
In response to California's new AB 285 climate education mandate, a team of educators developed a Solutions Mapping workshop to help teachers visualize the causes and solutions to climate change across disciplines. By encouraging collaborative…
Embracing the Environmental Principles and Concepts
The CASE Environmental Literacy Committee empowers educators to foster environmental literacy through workshops, tools like iNaturalist, and California’s Environmental Principles and Concepts (EP&Cs). Join their online EP&C workshop on April 2,…
Earth Day Every day, activities beyond April 22
Make Earth Day more meaningful with strategic planning and cross-curricular activities. Explore how to turn Earth Day into a year-round celebration of sustainability and action in the classroom and beyond.
“Counting Carbon” to Combat Climate Change
Explore Megan J. Sulsberger's CASE session on teaching climate change with STEM-based activities. Learn how to empower students to understand CO2 emissions, carbon sinks, and take action for sustainability.
The Leaf Detective: A CASE Book Report
As an educator, I am forever looking for the perfect attention-grabbing hook for my lesson. How do I enthrall my students, encourage them to ask questions, and evoke curiosity? The Leaf Detective: How Margaret Lowman Uncovered Secrets in the…
Peaks and Valleys: A landscape study of environmental literacy implementation in and out of California’s TK-12 classrooms
The report, Peaks and Valleys: A landscape study of environmental literacy implementation in and out of California’s TK-12 classrooms, provides a baseline for the state’s educators and policymakers, who have identified environmental literacy as a key…
Using High Interest Books to Teach Environmental Science Concepts
At a recent meeting of CASE’s Environmental Literacy Committee, we were discussing the power of using engaging reading books as a way to introduce, explore, and teach environmental literacy. We discussed several books that we have successfully used…