Elementary School Lessons
Snohomish Conservation District offers two lesson series for elementary school classrooms. Watershed Week explores how water moves through our urban and natural landscapes, providing ecosystem services and picking up pollution along the way. Wheat Week uses an agricultural lens to teach classrooms about plant DNA, energy systems, the water cycle, and other foundational environmental science concepts. We ask that teachers plan together so we can teach lessons to multiple classes per day.
Watershed Week
We teach these lessons individually or as a four-part series, one lesson Monday through Thursday.
Fish Grow on Trees
Learn about producers and consumers in a stream environment and play a tangled food-web game.
MacroMayhem!
Investigate stream bugs in the classroom using a game of tag as a model. Identify how bugs can tell you about the water quality of our local streams.
Salmon of Puget Sound
Get to know the life cycle of Pacific salmon and identify natural and human threats to this important fish.
4 Rain Drops
Explore the water cycle, watersheds, and how green stormwater engineering can help reduce water pollution and flooding.
Wheat Week
A five-part series, one lesson Monday through Friday.
What is Wheat?
Explore wheat as a system and discuss how inputs and outputs affect the plant as a whole. Create wheat terrariums to observe throughout the week.
Water In Our World
Learn about the water cycle and play a game where students travel to various locations as a water drop.
Amazing Soils
Differentiate between soil textures based on particle size and permeability. Discover how soil is made and discuss its properties.
Wheat DNA
Learn about Norman Borlaug’s contributions to feeding the world in the 1970's. Explore plant breeding and DNA through a wheat germ DNA extraction.
Wheat Energy
Thresh a wheat plant and learn how it transfers energy to humans. Wrap up terrarium observations and find out how to care for wheat plants at home.
Ready to sign up for Watershed Week or Wheat Week? Email us at education@snohomishcd.org to get started!