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You CAN Make a Difference!
Students identify environmental issues affecting their community and determine ways they can address the issues. They explain that they can be catalysts for change regarding the environment in their own communities.
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Smart Decision!
Fourth graders use a Decision Making Model to analyze and solve an environmental problem of public concern. Groups review a real life environmental problem, and use a worksheet imbedded in this plan to guide their decision.
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Water Trash
Learners explain the ways plastic waste can affect the marine environment. They are able to describe things they can do to can down on plastic waste entering the marine environment.
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The Atrazine Dilemma
Students understand how farming practices and the topography of a region can effect the health and safety of all living things. Students play a game which helps them understand how the chemical Azatrine has spread in the watershed.
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The Five Finger Exercise
Students understnad the importance of keeping our rivers and streams pollution free by remembering the major rivers of northeast Kansas. The see how the rivers contain particles of every substance that drains into them.
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How Much Azatrine?
Students understand the connections among people, places, and environments in the local school and community, Kansas and its surrounding states, the U.S. and its region, and the world.
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Clean Kansas Water
Students gain an understanding of ways we can be responsible custodians of our water supply. Students explore the governor's clean water initiative involving the Lower Kansas/Republican river basin and the pollutants present there.
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Cool, Clear Water - Or Is It?
Students use a problem solving method to offer a solution to one of the water quality problems within the Kansas Lower Republican River Basin. Groups research a problem area, then produce a skit, poem, song or story to illustrate the...
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It's Not My Problem!
Students examine how rivers flow through the country to sea level. Students study how upstream pollution effects the water and people downstream.
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The Chemistry of Water / Industrial Waste at My High School
Students gain factual knowledge of the nature of industrial waste at on their school site. They gain process knowledge of the laboratory techniques and collection procedures for wastewater samples.
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Pollution Solutions: Questions of Quality
Students investigate variations in water quality.
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The Berenstain Bears Don't Pollute (Anymore)
Students listen to the story, The Berenstain Bears Don't Pollute (Anymore). They create a Venn Diagram comparing it with the story, The Lorax. Then students plan ways to become advocates for recycling.
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What We As Students Can Do To Save Our World
Students investigate air and water pollution, and the conservation of natural resources.
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Junior Engineering Surface Water
Students experience the effects of pollution and erosion on a model of a watershed and explore ways to change the outcome.
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Finding and Measuring What You Can't See
Students determine how scientists measure pollutants in food and the environment. Students discover how scientists remove one material based on its physical properties. Students figure out how much of a pollutant is present after...
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Reduce and Reuse
Students conduct a lunch waste audit by recording each item they throw away at lunch. They graph class lunch waste. They use this information to devise a plan of action to reduce lunch waste. There is also an activity to make paper.
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Back to the Earth
Students conduct an experiment in which they bury four objects (apple, lettuce, plastic and styrofoam) in the ground and come back to observe them a month later. They consider what biodegrades and how it affects our planet.
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Recycle
Students determine the weight of paper waste generated by the class. They brainstorm ways to reduce and recycle. They make their own paper to demonstrate recycling. This lesson plan is very effective in demonstrating how recycling works.
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Away with Waste!
Learners read and analyze the story Away on the Bay as a springboard to discuss water pollution. They may look into ways in which water can be cleaned and a watershed restored.
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Litter Detectives
Students develop a positive attitude against littering by creating solutions to help reduce littering.
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the New Explorers:Into the Depths
Learners explore the self preservation mechanism that is inherent in the Great Lakes. They examine how scientists are studying Great Lakes, and what their predictions are for these national treasures.
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Litter Recognition
Students identify litter, and discuss what to do with it. They analyze people's response to litter. Some people may ignore it, while others may pick it up. They observe student behavior as part of an experiment.