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Lesson Plan
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Learning Sustainability With Sim City

For Teachers 9th - 10th
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...
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Website
Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences

Powerhouse Museum: Eco Logic: Creating a Sustainable Future for Australia

For Students 9th - 10th
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.
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Website
Other

Planet Ark: World Environmental News

For Students 9th - 10th
Welcome to Planet Ark's daily Reuters World Environment News - the most comprehensive source of environmental news on the Net. To read previous news stories, please use the search engine below to find stories relating to any...
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Lesson Plan
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Designing a Sustainable Guest Village

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This lesson introduces students to their task of designing a permanent guest village within the Saguaro National Park. The design must provide a true desert experience to visitors while also emphasizing sustainable design, protection of...
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Website
The Environmental Literacy Council

Environmental Literacy Council: For Students

For Students 9th - 10th
Environmental Literacy Council wants to build a fundamental understanding of the systems of the world, both living and non-living, along with the analytical skills needed to weigh scientific evidence and policy choices in young people....
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Professional Doc
The Environmental Literacy Council

Environmental Literacy Council: Teacher Resources

For Teachers 9th - 10th
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...
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Unit Plan
Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Ap Environmental Science: Terrestrial Biomes and Land Use

For Students 9th - 10th
How we can live sustainably on our natural resources while also preserving enough nature so these resources can be replenished represents one of the most important questions in environmental science. Through learning about terrestrial...
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Online Course
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Mit: Open Course Ware: Courses: Civil Environmental: Ecology I: The Earth System

For Teachers 9th - 10th
College-level online course highlighting the fundamentals of ecology. Course topics include coevolution of the biosphere, geosphere, atmosphere, and hydrosphere; photosynthesis and respiration; and the carbon, nitrogen, and water cycles....
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Interactive
Other

Planet Cork: Educating Primary School Children in Sustainable Development

For Students 3rd - 5th
Cartoon character Corkie wants all children to know about one of nature's unique gifts-cork! Find out what makes cork an environmentally friendly renewable resource with many special qualities and uses that can help us keep planet Earth...
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Unit Plan
Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Environmental Worldviews, Ethics, and Sustainability

For Students 9th - 10th
Through this interactive module, history has shown that the multifaceted aspects of nature have been overlooked many times in the past. And thus, our pursuit to control our environment has failed and left us wanting. What does the future...
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Website
Other

Royal Saskatchewan Museum: Can We Live Sustainably? [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource provides an overview of the human footprint on the Earth. How is Man affecting Earth, what are the causes of stress, and more importantly, what are the solutions. PDF (requires Adobe Reader).
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Unit Plan
Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Populations, Biodiversity and Politics of Sustainability

For Students 9th - 10th
Students explore the value of biodiversity, the impacts that humans are having on the Earth's biodiversity, and measures that can be taken to preserve biodiversity.
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Lesson Plan
Smithsonian Institution

National Museum of Natural History: Does Our Background Shape Our Thinking About Environmental Issues? [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A instructional activity where students explore the positive and negative impacts of human activities on the environment today and in the distant past, and examine how attitudes towards the environment might be shaped by one's...
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Activity
Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Making Everyday Objects Out of Mushrooms: Environmentally Friendly Design

For Students 9th - 10th
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.
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Handout
Other

Centre for Alternative Technology: Information Service

For Students 9th - 10th
Information and advice on sustainable living. Provides data for people that might want to use technology in the construction or conversion of their home into an environmentally sustainable structure.
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Online Course
Cosmo Learning

Cosmo Learning: Sustainable Living

For Students 9th - 10th
A collection of video lectures from a unique course taught at the University of California, Los Angeles on sustainable living. The lectures range in topics from food systems to organic gardens. The lecturers also vary in their expertise...
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Lesson Plan
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Using Art to Teach Environmental Responsibility

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students use art to consider the effects of industrial culture on the environment, and envision how to create a more positive and sustainable future.
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Website
Columbia University

Nasa: Sedac: Water Resources and Consumption

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] A collection of twenty-four data sets from SEDAC (Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center) that examine water resources and issues around the world. They look at dams and reservoirs, floods, drought,...
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Website
Other

Worldwatch Institute

For Students 9th - 10th
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...
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Website
Other

Grace Communications: Food Print

For Students 9th - 10th
An environmentally conscious group brings to light the relationship between food, water and energy, and the importance of sustainability. The site looks at issues such as animal welfare, social justices, food policy, the industrial food...
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Website
Columbia University

The Earth Institute at Columbia University

For Students 9th - 10th
Bringing people together to discuss Earth's environmental problems, The Earth Institute addresses climate change, environmental degradation, poverty, disease, and sustainable use of resources.
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Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Engineers Speak for the Trees

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students begin by reading Dr. Seuss' "The Lorax" as an example of how overdevelopment can cause long-lasting environmental destruction. Students discuss how to balance the needs of the environment with the needs of human industry....
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Website
Other

Shft: Curating the Culture of Today's Environment

For Students 9th - 10th
A platform which identifies and exemplifies ways in which to achieve sustainable living through film, design, art and food.
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Website
Other

U.s. Green Building Council: Leadership in Energy & Environmental Design

For Students 9th - 10th
LEED is a program for green building certification. Buildings are rated on a points system in one of five categories, including building design and construction, interior design and construction, building operations and maintenance,...