Virginia Tech
Digital History Reader: Can Humans Control the Natural World?
The course of industrialization and migration of society forced a shift within the natural world. Through context, writing assignments, reports, articles, visual materials, and bibliographical resources this unit dives into the question,...
PBS
Pbs Teachers: Rivers of Destiny
This site explains the importance of rivers in the natural balance of life on Earth, and describes what happens when people begin to tamper with rivers. This will also help students identify options for dealing with the outcomes of human...
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Ap Environmental Science: Course Introduction
An introduction to Environmental Science, an interdisciplinary field of study that integrates the biological and physical sciences in an effort to understand environmental systems, and the solutions to both man-made and natural...
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Ap Environmental Science: Introduction
An introductory module with interactive activities, class notes, lab activities, and review questions which cover advanced placement environmental science concepts.
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Ap Environmental Science: Energy Use and Energy Sources
This interactive learning module will focus on the fundamentals of energy and energy sources, renewable and nonrenewable, that support the human population. Students will also explore our dependence on nonrenewable fossil fuels to...
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Human Impact
In this comprehensive interactive tutorial you will learn how we can reduce our carbon footprint by using alternate energy sources.
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Hhmi: Biointeractive: The Anthropocene: Human Impact on the Environment
Use this interactive to explore key human impacts on the environment and how they have affected Earth's landscape, ocean, atmosphere, and biodiversity. The column on the left-hand side of the screen lists different human impacts on the...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Human Impact
This tutorial provides some insight to the study of human impacts on water supplies.
Other
Alaska Sea Grant: Investigation 4 Human Impact Survey
Students examine and record data about the impact human activity has on a local aquatic environment in this teaching unit. They then analyze the information and develop a plan for improvement. The unit depends on being able to take the...
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: The Habitable Planet: Unit 9: Biodiversity Decline
This is an extensive learning module on biodiversity and its decline. It looks at ways biodiversity is threatened, the possibility of another mass extinction, the causes and consequences of habitat loss, factors that drive biodiversity...
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Ap Environmental Science: Science, Matter, Energy, Systems
Through interactive activities, reading exercises, and lab activities, students study how science, matter, energy, and systems are interrelated.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Survival of a Species
Given scenarios, illustrations or descriptions, the student will describe how long-term survival of species is dependent on changing resource bases that are limited.
Other
University of Montana: Wilderness Connect: Threats to Wilderness
Climate change, overuse, fire suppression, pollution, invasive species and disease, lack of public awareness, and technology are threatening our wilderness areas. These problems are discussed and suggestions are made as to what can be...
The Wonder of Science
The Wonder of Science: K Ess3 3: Environmental Solutions
This NSTA vetted source includes resources to teach ideas on reducing the impact of humans on the environment. Included are assessment ideas, videos, examples, lesson plans, and photos of student work.
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: Plum Landing
Invite students to visit ecosystems around the world with this collection. This collection includes activities for the classroom, after school, and families. Also included is games.
PBS
Pbs: River Rewilding: Evaluating Impacts on Ecosystems and Communities
A units that follow a community as they work through Grand River Revitalization Efforts. Investigate how these efforts impacts the social, economic, historic, and biology of the Grand River.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Wildlife Biology
In this What's Up in the Environment? video segment, learn how various indicator species are used to monitor the environmental condition of the Everglades.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Dustin Madden: Science Teacher
In this video profile produced for Teachers' Domain, meet teacher Dustin Madden, an Inupiaq who hopes to inspire students to take an active role in protecting the natural environment by giving them a foundation in math and science.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Ecosystem Change and Insect Visitation Rates
In this field investigation, learners develop a question and investigation regarding an environmental change and its effect on insect visitation rates to a plant community.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Mn Step: Animal Game Impact of Human Activity or Natural Disasters
A description of a activity where students first listen to a story where they begin to think about and discuss the impact humans and natural disasters have on the environment. They then play a board game. This requires preparation...
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Investigating Habitats: Human's Influence on the Land
Students will investigate two different habitats; one habitat is maintained in its original natural state while the other habitat is a manicured golf course. Students will identify and compare the diversity of plants and insects in those...
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Using Plant Surveys to Study Biodiversity
An extended field investigation intended as launch into several concepts in environmental science including biodiversity, human impacts on natural systems, and energy transfer in ecosystems.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Climate Change Is About Water
Through a range of voices and multimedia materials, discover the story of climate change and its impacts on water in Bolivia. Case studies bring the explanatory analysis of vulnerability and the social, economic and cultural impacts of...