PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Welcome to City Farm
You're in charge of an urban farm and need to run the farm sustainably for 5 years. Play this interactive game and learn about sustainable practices by growing crops, protecting them against unforeseen problems, and determining how best...
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Ap Environmental Science: Plate Tectonics,natural Resources
Through interactive activities and readings, students learn that natural resources can be renewable or nonrenewable, but sustainable use and management must be applied to ensure they are available for the long term.
Other
Derm: Water Cycles and Catchments
Students develop an understanding of the water cycle and water catchments. This learning module is divided into introductory, developmental, and culminating activities, and also has several assessment strategies. Resource sheets...
Columbia University
The Earth Institute at Columbia University
Bringing people together to discuss Earth's environmental problems, The Earth Institute addresses climate change, environmental degradation, poverty, disease, and sustainable use of resources.
Other
Worldwatch Institute
This website offers current, sophisticated, topic-specific environmental research on the political and ethical consequences of not building a sustainable environment. From leading scientists to news about law and politics, the website...
Other
Fao: International Year of Natural Fibres 2009
An organization aiming to raise awareness of the importance of natural fibers. Plants and animals play an important role in contributing to food security and poverty alleviation worldwide. Find out about how natural fibers provide...
Other
University of Idaho: Principles of Sustainability
This online open course is a digital walkabout on the primary concepts, principles, and issues of sustainability. Rather than lectures, the course has eight Chapters, each with several Parts that detail the Chapter topic area. The course...
Other
Freie Universitat Berlin: Everyday Objects [Pdf]
In our daily lives we are surrounded by objects which have specific roles and functions. Some are relatively simple, like a drinking cup. Others are much more complex, like a mobile phone. This wonderful 56-page handbook presents...
Practical Action
Practical Action: Squashed Tomato Challenge
Challenge students to take on a real-life problem affecting people in Nepal. Many farmers living on the mountainside there grow fruit and vegetables, including tomatoes. To earn a living, they need to sell these at the local market. The...
Other
Australian Acad. Of Science: Food Waste: Preventing Multi Billion Dollar Problem
The top priority when it comes to food waste is to avoid generating more. Food waste includes all food intended for human consumption that never reaches us, as well as edible food that consumers throw away. As it rots in landfills, food...
Other
The Great Green Wall
The Great Green Wall is an African-led movement with an epic ambition to grow an 8,000 km natural wonder of the world across the entire width of Africa. A decade in and roughly 15% underway, the initiative is already bringing life back...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: City Farm
Players learn about sustainable practices by growing crops, protecting them against unforeseen problems, and determining how best to conserve resources in this interactive game.
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: Making Everyday Objects Out of Mushrooms: Environmentally Friendly Design
In this activity, you will use mushroom roots to grow a biodegradable material that can be molded into a product of your liking, like a flowerpot.
US Environmental Protection Agency
Epa: Learn the Issues: Green Living
This site provides real-world issues as well as the scientific research and technology used to support the EPA's mission to protect human health and safeguard the natural environment.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Investigating Biodiversity in Your Schoolyard
In this field lab, students will investigate the biodiversity around their school and record and document the information they find. The students will compare their information to those of their classmates, develop multiple hypotheses...
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Plastic Waste Production
Plastic waste is a huge problem with many potential solutions. In this lab exercise, students will use data to predict the amount of plastic waste in the next ten years and engage in communication that leads to effective decisions for...
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Energy Cost of Engine Idling
An open-ended modeling exercise for students about sustainability and energy behaviors and impacts.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Learning Sustainability With Sim City
Helps educators develop SimCity-based lesson plans that will encourage students to think critically about the challenges facing modern cities. SimCity is a city-building simulation computer game where players become the mayor and design...
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Finding the Personal Voice of Sustainability
Students explore a more personal connection to sustainability and environmental concerns by reading an article, and rewriting it into a first-person monologue which they will perform.
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: Navigating Our Global Future
As globalization and technological advances bring us hurtling towards a new integrated future, Ian Goldin warns that not all people may benefit equally. But, he says, if we can recognize this danger, we might yet realize the possibility...
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: Less Stuff, More Happiness
Writer and designer Graham Hill asks: Can having less stuff, in less room, lead to more happiness? He makes the case for taking up less space, and lays out three rules for editing your life. [5:50]
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: Silk, the Ancient Material of the Future
Fiorenzo Omenetto shares 20+ astonishing new uses for silk, one of nature's most elegant materials- in transmitting light, improving sustainability, adding strength and making medical leaps and bounds. On stage, he shows a few intriguing...
Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences
Powerhouse Museum: Eco Logic: Creating a Sustainable Future for Australia
Students learn about current social, environmental, and economic issues. The resource consists of information and resources about the conditions, qualities, and goals to support a sustainable future.
Crown Copyright (UK)
Gov. Uk: Environment Agency
The official site for the environmental protection of England and Wales. Provides research data, business environmental performance, and tips for environmental care.