Students, working in teams with family and/or community members, use cultural and community knowledge in concert with science and engineering practices, disciplinary core ideas, and crosscutting concepts to identify and explain environmental issues directly affecting their communities (e.g., lack of urban greenspace, access to fresh produce, decrease in pollinators, water contamination, lead paint in buildings, plastics in waterways, heavy metal/pesticide contamination in soils). First, students will establish a team using design principles and communication best practices based on key authentic community engagement principles (Cisneros et al., 2021). Student teams will start by using community asset mapping approaches to identify a project focus. 

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Teacher Materials

• Family & Community Environmental Action Project 3 Dimensions Table