Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: The Lifestyle Project
This is a three-week project that has students explore and assess their personal lifestyle and how their habits impact on the environment. In the process, they learn that they too have a responsibility to minimize any negative impacts,...
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: The Lifestyle Project at West Chester University of Pennsylvania
This is a five-week project where students explore and assess their personal lifestyle choices and how their habits impact on the environment. They try making choices that have less of a detrimental effect on the environment, and...
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: The Lifestyle Project at the University of Redlands
This is a three-week project where learners explore and assess their personal lifestyle choices and how their habits impact on the environment. They try making choices that have less of a detrimental effect on the environment, and...
Other
Skidmore College: Lifestyle Project
A copy of an article published in the Journal of Geoscience Education. It describes how the Lifestyle Project got started, and how it is used with students to help them develop an awareness of how their daily habits and actions have an...
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: The Lifestyle Project at Malaspina University College, British Columbia
This is a three-week project where students explore and assess their personal lifestyle and how their habits impact on the environment. In the process, they learn that they too have a responsibility to minimize any negative impacts, and...
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian: Eight Ways That Climate Change Hurts Humans
Learn about eight major ways in which our negative impact on the environment also hurts people.
PBS
Pbs: Pov Borders: Environment
Point of View is television's longest running showcase for independent non-fiction films. This particular feature provides insight regarding alternative means of energy, transport, and the consumption of natural resources. Video, games,...
Government of Alberta
Alberta Environment: Climate Change: Creating Solutions for Our Future [Pdf]
This 181-page teacher's guide to climate change presents six mini-units that address how climate change happens, what its impact is, and what humans do to cause it. Students then look at ways they can promote and practice climate change...
C3 Teachers
C3 Teachers: Inquiries: Geography
A learning module on world geography. It includes several supporting questions accompanied by formative tasks and source materials, followed by a summative performance task. Students investigate where their community is located, where...
National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, University of California Santa Barbara
University of California: A Global Map of Human Impacts to Marine Ecosystems
Maps in different categories such as fishing, climate change, and pollution were pulled together into a composite map that shows the impact of humans on the world's oceans. Analysis at the time (2008) showed that 40% of the world's...
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...
Globio
Glossopedia: Environments
This article defines "environment" as a collection of animals and plants in a specific landscape and climate. The concept of differing types of environments is introduced. The impact of humans on environments and all environments'...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Fourth Grade Science: Life Science: Habitat Destruction
Looks at ways plants and animals, including humans, can impact the environment in this learning module.
E-learning for Kids
E Learning for Kids: Science: Pacific Ocean: Mexico: Why Must We Care for the Environment?
Join Mateo on his trip to Mexico. During his trip, he will teach all about conservation, and contributing to a healthy environment.
Other
Baltimore Co. Public Schools: Chesapeake Bay Food Webs (Online Research Model)
Food webs lesson, which focuses on Chesapeake Bay habitats, integrates biological concepts with literacy knowledge and skills. Lesson directs students to answer the question, how does a human-caused stress placed on the environment...
Unite for Literacy
Unite for Literacy: Community: Recycle With Uncle Roo
See how trash thrown carelessly away affects animals and the environment. Uncle Roo, a rooster, reminds us of why it is important to recycle and reuse. Includes audio narration in English and Spanish with text in English.
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: The Survival of the Sea Turtle
Video describes the struggle of infant sea turtles as they deal with hazards and predators in their environment. [4:26] Includes a short quiz and a list of additional resources to explore.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Environment
Through 10 lessons and more than 20 hands-on activities, students are introduced to the concept of an environment and the many interactions within it. As they learn about natural and human-made environments, as well as renewable and...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Product Development and the Environment
In this activity, students investigate the life cycle of an engineered product and how the product impacts the environment. They analyze a product using a simple life cycle assessment that assigns fictional numerical values for different...
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Mn Step: Animal Game Impact of Human Activity or Natural Disasters
A description of a lesson 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...
European Union
European Environment Agency: Nature and Wildlife
This site has the summary of a report on nature and wildlife in Europe. Read about the natural environment, changes resulting from human activity, or access a table of contents to read more.
Environmental Education for Kids
Eek!: Community Action & Citizen Science: Biomonitoring
Biomonitoring is the term scientists use to describe the use of plants, animals, or entire ecosystems to tell if our environment is polluted. Biomonitoring has been used by biologists and scientists to give us information about our...
Environmental Education for Kids
Eek!: Water Wonders: Mercury in Homes and Schools
Learn where mercury can be found at home and at school, how exposure affects humans, ways to protect yourself from it, and the damage it is doing to the natural environment.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Earth Science: Conserving Water Study Guide
This comprehensive study guide covers the main terms and concepts needed for an earth science unit on conserving water. Review questions are included at the bottom of the study guide.