The CHSSP has a number of materials to support the integration of California’s Environmental Principles and Concepts into your classroom. These resources that reflect our understanding of the importance of using an environmental lens to investigate the past and to build an environmentally-sustainable and just future.
Curriculum
- Primary source sets for elementary, middle and high school classrooms, aligned with HSS Framework and California's Environmental Principles and Concepts
- Current events-based reading and classroom activities, from the CHSSP's Current Context series
- Two-page worksheets with visual and written primary sources, HSS Framework inquiry questions and environmental analysis, by grade level
Webinars
- Introductory webinar on teaching for environmental literacy in the HSS classroom
- High School: The Influence of the Environment in Modern History
- Middle School: Environments and Civilizations
- Elementary: History and Place
Additional Resources
- Environmental Justice Report for K-12 classrooms, developed by the California Subject Matter Project
- 25 classroom questions to investigate the role of the environment in history
- Source magazine "Environmental Literacy in History-Social Science"
- Framework Rollout presentation on teaching for environmental literacy in the HSS classroom
- HSS Framework inquiry questions that connect to environmental principles
Many of these resources were developed with the generous support from Ten Strands and the California Environmental Literacy Initiative.