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Wetlands Issues

For Students 4th - 6th
In this wetlands worksheet, students write questions for topics in a game about the wetlands. Students write 5 questions for each topic.
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Earn Points with Technology

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students explore renewable energy by analyzing a diagram. In this fossil fuel lesson plan, students view a chart explaining the different energy consumption from automobiles and how they impact our environment. Students analyze a point...
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Water Wise

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Students calculate their family's water consumption. In this water usage instructional activity, students discuss the water they use in their homes. Students complete the 'water wise' worksheets to tally their family's use of water....
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Create, Design, and Invent with Plastic

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Students explore creative ways to reuse materials. For this ecology/art lesson, students create artwork using trash. Students view examples of folk art from around the world that used waste products as a main component.
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Put In the Correct Order (Recycling)

For Students 6th - 7th
In this recycling worksheet, students read 7 sentences about the recycling process that are out of order. Students write out the sentences in the correct order.
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Save the Earth: It's Everyone's Home!

For Teachers K - 3rd
Learners research ways to conserve and reduce energy and resources. In this reducing waste lesson, students work in teams to experiment with water and losing resources. learners brainstorm about ways to conserve and reduce energy and...
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You CAN Make a Difference!

For Teachers 5th - 8th
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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Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders use a variety of information resources to identify local environmental issues and examine the ways that people have tried to solve these problems. They read "Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs" and create a list of three...
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The Environment & Economy of SE Utah

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students compare and contrast the environment to the economy of Utah. In groups, they pick one environmental issue and identify its relationship to sustainable economic growth. To end the lesson, they share their findings with the...
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The Environment In The News

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers explore environmental issues. Using a newspaper, students scan headlines for articles related to environmental or sustainability issues. From the article title, middle schoolers predict the article's intent and then read...
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TE Activity: Cool Views

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students define preservation and conservation before listening to an article read by the teacher about John Muir and Gifford Pinchot, famous environmentalists. They complete a Venn diagram before deciding which side of this environmental...
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Personal Opinions, Part 1

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students interview their peers and teachers, in Spanish, about environmental issues. They write a response to their interviews and create a Venn diagram to identify similarities and differences between two cultural responses.
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How Did That Get There?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners evaluate the role of government in addressing land use and other environmental issues. They analyze the powers, responsibilities, and limitations of elected and appointed officials in the national legislative, executive, and...
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Traverse City Trouble Makers

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students investigate how to become advocates in an authentic environmental issue, in this case the invasion of the zebra mussel invasion of the Great Lakes. They complete graphic organizers during Internet research, while reading...
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Lesson Plans for "The Lorax" by Dr. Seuss

For Teachers K - 2nd
"The Lorax" by Dr. Seuss provides a great way to teach students about Earth Day, and environmental issues.
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Climate/Dust Bowl

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students read the novel " Out of the Dust" and identify environmental issues. They select one of those issues to research and create a slideshow explaining their research and present it to the class.
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Progression's Price

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students reflect upon their regional and national environments, analyze causes of environmental problems as well as their implications, and examine effects of population growth as they participate in "The Popcorn Game."
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Water Creative Writing

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students red and discuss an example of a biographical essay. They read The Last of the Falling Tide by Car Hiassen, answer factual questions concerning the work, and create their own story about a natural place they are familiar with ,...
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Environment -- Unit on Globalization and the Environment

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Young scholars examine the effect of human activities on the environment. They discover issues that are causing problems around the world. They participate in a debate using their own research.
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Health Issues Related to Space Experiments

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students participate in a science instructional activity that integrates connections between health issues on Earth and how those issues are related to studies conducted on the International Space Station. T
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Genetically-Modified Food

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students investigate the pros and cons of genetic engineering. They watch a short Bill Moyers video, conduct Internet research, create a poster, participate in a pro/con debate, and write an essay expressing their personal feelings on...
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Global Weather and the Greenhouse Effect

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students discuss how local weather patterns effect or relate to global weather and environmental changes, explore connected nature of our planet, and examine global weather patterns, their changes, and their possible connection to global...
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The Copper Basin Problem

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Young scholars view a video about how human actions impact the environment. They design a set of experiments to address some of the problems and issues raised by the video.
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Earth Ethics: Moral Puralism

For Teachers 9th - Higher Ed
Students analyze an environmental policy decision. Students describe the difference between consequence-based and duty-based ethics. Students argue the case for giving standing or consideration to values other than those of human...

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