Light Detectives

Students become 'Light Detectives' to explore how different materials interact with light, categorizing classroom objects as transparent or opaque through a hands-on scavenger hunt.

Light Detectives

Students become 'Light Detectives' to explore how different materials interact with light, categorizing classroom objects as transparent or opaque through a hands-on scavenger hunt.

Colville Forest Explorers

An immersive 1st-grade GLAD unit focused on the Colville National Forest ecosystem. Students explore food chains, interdependence, seasonal changes, and local keystone species through visual charts, rhythmic chants, and rewarding literacy achievements.

Chelsea Moore

Muddy Minibeast Safari

A nature-based family event in the outdoor classroom designed for early childhood participants and their families. This event features a storywalk, bug hunting adventures, mud kitchen play, and sunshine sensory exploration to celebrate summer bugs and dirt.

Heidi Kaufman

Family Adventure Passport

A child-friendly, printable safari passport that families use to track their progress, record sensory discoveries, and complete hands-on nature challenges.

Heidi Kaufman

Spine Squad

A five-day modified animal classification unit focusing on the five main vertebrate groups, designed with extensive visual support, sentence frames, and tracing options for modified learning.

katie_conklin

Debugging Detective Agency

An interactive computer science lesson for K-2 students where they roleplay as 'Debugging Detectives' to identify and fix logical sequencing errors in physical algorithms to save a summer picnic.

Julie Gonzales

Safari Facilitation Guide

A comprehensive educator facilitation and setup guide for hosting the Muddy Minibeast Safari, complete with station blueprints, preparation checklists, schedules, and reflection prompts.

Heidi Kaufman

Ocean Zone Explorers

An immersive 1st-grade GLAD science and literacy sequence that guides young learners from the sunny surface to the deepest, darkest trenches, using cooperative learning, narrative inputs, and hands-on modeling.

Chelsea Moore

Bug Inspectors

An insect-themed science and vocabulary lesson where students inspect insect anatomy, identify bug types, and complete highly engaging puzzles including a labeling lab sheet and a comprehensive word search.

amy_oshea

Picnic Patrol Case File

A student-friendly printout where students write down answers, match correct algorithms, and document their completed cases as Debugging Detectives.

Julie Gonzales

Vowel Valley

A 3-day phonics intervention sequence for first graders focusing on the 'au' and 'aw' diphthongs through direct instruction, fluency building, and game-based learning.

Crystal Clapin

Sun and Space Experts

A 1st-grade science unit where students work in expert groups to explore Earth, the Moon, Jupiter, and Venus in relation to the Sun. Each group reads specialized text and sketches key observations to build collaborative knowledge.

Courtney McGregor

Picnic Patrol Activity Cards

Hands-on debugging task cards featuring broken picnic sequences (e.g., packing a basket, making a sandwich) for students to reorder and correct.

Light Detectives

Light Lab Teacher Guide