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Environmental and Land Use Law Curriculum from the Washington State Bar AssociationThe Washington State Bar Association Environmental and Land Use Section has prepared a curriculum for use in high school classroom presentations.
The curriculum, Environmental and Land Use Law: Engaging Students in Their Communities, provides opportunities for attorneys to present engaging activities on environmental and land use law in high school classrooms. The curriculum provides visiting attorneys and teachers with four interactive, age-appropriate lesson plans, along with a Power Point presentation, a student handout on careers in law, and extension activity ideas and resources. The curriculum is flexible and adaptable to help teachers make environmental and land use law relevant to their existing classroom curriculum and to their community.
The WSBA Environmental and Land Use Law Section developed this curriculum as an educational resource for teachers and/or lawyers who visit high school classrooms as part of Law Day, Law Week, or for other activities. Visiting lawyers are encouraged to use this curriculum in partnership with the classroom teacher, so that together they can develop a presentation that fits within the context of the classroom curriculum. Today's teachers must choose lessons that are aligned with the Washington State Essential Academic Learning Standards, a set of standards for each subject matter that provides information on what students must learn and be capable of demonstrating at different grade level benchmarks. The lesson plans in this curriculum are aligned with learning standards in civics, economics, geography, social study skills, and communication and are appropriate for teachers of government, environmental science, business, law, and other subject areas.
The curriculum was written by Kristen Clapper Bergsman of Laughing Crow Curriculum (Seattle, WA) and Martin Fortin Jr. of Cispus Learning Center (Randle, WA).
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