Environmental Literacy Council offers teacher resources for a variety discrete subjects and grade levels in this website. Teachers looking for classroom activities, labs, and quizzes about environmental science that are reviewed by...

In this activity, students will be given a hypothetical piece of property to study and apply the requirements of the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) to make recommendations about the possible land use.

Invite your students to sing, dance, and learn alongside their favorite PBS KIDS friends! Discover new and fun ways to integrate music into lessons, routines, and activities to inspire everyday learning. The curated songs center around...

This informative lesson plan site explains how to use art in the classroom to teach science. Thirty-one plans are provided on various ecological topics. As the art is made the students are implicitly learning the ecology principle.

An impressive collection of lessons on climate science and climate change. The entire book can be downloaded. As well, each activity has its own page with some combination of background information, PowerPoints, images, maps, glossaries,...

Explore the autumn scene while learning math, literacy, and science at the same time! These fall-themed resources highlight ways to make traditional fall activities -- like visiting the apple orchard, going on nature hikes, and...

Discover how the structure of DNA relates to its hereditary function in these videos from the American Masters film Decoding Watson. The first video, "DNA Structure and Function," [2:07] can be used with all middle and high school...

Dinosaur Train sparks children's interest in life science and natural history. As they explore a variety of animals, children develop the inquiry skills and knowledge needed to help them think, talk and act like paleontologists. Choose...

Site contains a science-based literacy activity that explains how to use electricity in a safe manner. A worksheet is provided.

Part of Houghton Mifflin's excellent Scientists in the Field series Tracking Trash introduces Dr. Curtis Ebbesmeyer, a "trash tracker", who studies where trash goes when it is "spilled" in the ocean, to determine the direction of ocean...

Inspire civic awareness, promote student activism and examine the rights and responsibilities of American citizenship by exploring stories of how ordinary citizens accomplished extraordinary changes.

Explore the autumn scene while learning math, literacy, and science at the same time! These fall-themed resources highlight ways to make traditional fall activities - like visiting the apple orchard, going on nature hikes, and collecting...

A nine-part learning module on using the acronym RUNNERS to learn active reading strategies through text, videos, a PowerPoint, a web link and a quiz.

In this activity, students use their science knowledge and apply it using physical activity! Learning about the stages of matter, solid, liquid and gas, students perform an exercise for each as the teacher calls out an object such as...

In this segment from Nature, Scientists travel to the top of Mount Kilauea to collect molten lava samples for testing.

To be scientifically literate, students must be able to express themselves appropriately. Learn how to help struggling students master specific vocabulary and be able to use it in their science writing activities.

Explore the crossroads of art, science, and pop culture with PBS Idea Channel. Hosted by Mike Rugnetta, the Idea Channel launched in 2012 and has since posted over 100 videos, with more added every Wednesday. The program has quickly...

Background information: This activity is an extension of the children's exposure to states of matter in the Scott Foresman science series for Grade 2. This lesson has a Literacy component. Using the book by Dr. Seuss, "Bartholomew and...

Let the power of imagination and inference serve as a "time machine" to bring Benjamin Franklin into the classroom! History and science come to life in a dialogue with Franklin the inventor, developed through lesson activities that...

Accept the mission to take down toxins in this game. Students learn how to reduce toxins in their home, by completing three fun activities such as making your own eco-friendly product. Complete the mission and earn a badge.

This site features activities that revolve around "Teaching With Pourquoi Tales." Students will learn more about these types of old legends that deal with the natural world.

Follow this six-step method and you'll have a good understanding of what a good scientific research paper involves and how it is organized. There are plenty of samples for you to look at. This explanation is also very helpful for...

An interdisciplinary math, science, and language arts lesson that engages students in an exploration of statistics. Through a study of various forest climates, students utilize data collection and analysis, classification, and graphing....

A lesson plan in which students explore plant communities and observe different types of soil and weather conditions in an attempt to determine cause and effect relationships. Includes discussion questions, extension activities and web...