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Teachers
Caring for the Kenai is a unique environmental contest and a wonderful educational opportunity for your students; and it's a cinch to incorporate into your curriculum. Teachers who use CFK as an aspect for their lesson plans have said, "the great thing about Caring for the Kenai is that it's not just another thing to cram into your overflowing curriculum, but something that can be substituted for other projects as a real-life, hands-on, community-oriented opportunity."
Events...
Environmental Education Resource Inservice
Resources...
2008 Timeline - Important dates to remember
Oral
Presentation Judging Rubric
This document provides snapshot of how students are judged during the Oral
Presentation of the finalists.
We also encourage students and teachers to view the past two year's oral presentations. You can find them at the following addresses. Please note you will need Windows Media Player to view the presentations.
2005
mms://mediastream.kpbsd.k12.ak.us/archive/2005/cfk/2005CaringfortheKenai.wmv
2006
mms://mediastream.kpbsd.k12.ak.us/archive/2006/cfk/2006CaringfortheKenai.wmv
Caring for the
Kenai and national standards...
Caring
for the Kenai is an important local program, but how does it connect to national
standards and lifelong environmental education? The answer to this question
has been addressed by the North American Association for Environmental Education
(NAAEE) who have developed four strands of contest standards that detail the
cross-curricular relationship between environmental education and the major
disciplines of language arts, math, geography, economics, and history.
These strands are summarized
below with direct links to the national standards of each subject area. In
addition, examples have been showcased from the Caring for the Kenai contest
that model and illustrate specifically how these students connected their
projects to the major NAAEE strands as well as national standards in other
subject areas.
Content Standards Correlation
to CFK Project
Example Student Project
Caring for the Kenai meets all Alaska standards for science and english.
For Science:
Caring for the Kenai meets all Alaska Content Standards, (A-D). A- A student
should understand scientific facts, concepts, principles, and theories. B-
A student should possess and understand the skills of scientific inquiry.
C- A student should understand the nature and history of science. D- A student
should be able to apply scientific knowledge and skills to make reasoned decisions
about the use of science and scientific innovations.
To view AK Content Standards for Science, visit http://www.eed.state.ak.us/contentstandards/Science.html
For English:
Caring for the Kenai meets all Alaska Content Standards, (A-E). A- A student
should be able to speak and write well for a variety of purposes and audiences.
B- A student should be a competent and thoughtful reader, listener, and viewer
of literature, technical materials, and a variety of other information. C-
A student should be able to identify and select from multiple strategies in
order to complete projects independently and cooperatively. D- A student should
be able to think logically and reflectively in order to present and explain
positions based on relevant and reliable information. E- A student should
understand and respect the perspectives of others in order to communicate
effectively.
To view AK Content Standards for English, visit http://www.eed.state.ak.us/contentstandards/English.html
