The Clean Air Game
A fun, active outdoor game for helping students visualize how human activities enhance the natural greenhouse effect.
FROM: TEACHING ABOUT CLIMATE CHANGE
Posts from the ‘Activities’ Category
Apr 26
The Carbon Dioxide Game
A fun, active outdoor game for helping students visualize how human activities enhance the natural greenhouse effect.
FROM GREEN TEACHER'S SPRING 2003 ISSUE
Apr 26
Birdathons: Counting for conservation
By organizing a bird count as a class or club project, you will not only raise students' awareness of migratory bird conservation but may also be able to raise money for school environmental projects.
Game: Blowing up your world
An intermediate activity focusing on individual responsibility for saving the planet.
FROM TEACHING GREEN: THE MIDDLE YEARS
Apr 26
The Mathematics of Trash
Multiplication and graphing exercises for upper elementary students which demonstrate the magnitude of waste produced by modern society.
Apr 26
Teaching Sustainability with Two Buckets
Constructing, and experimenting with, self-watering container-based food gardens can serve as a springboard for introducing concepts of sustainability, permaculture, and systems thinking to grades 5 and up.
Apr 26
Sustainable Design for a Bountiful Future
Creative and critical-thinking activities for engaging teenagers in "humanity’s 21st century group project"—sustainable design. Students learn about sustainability in the production and consumption of material goods, and apply their knowledge to design sustainable products.
Apr 26
Tales from the Trail
Writing about a personal outdoor adventure for an eco-tourism web site can promote both ecological awareness and language skills for students aged 14 and up.
Apr 26
Biosphere Education
Programs that encourage young people to become empathetic are an important complement to those that help make ecological connections.
Apr 26
An Inquiry Lesson in Resource Conservation
An interactive learning activity for grades K-4 and adaptable for higher grades, which helps students grasp the interrelated concepts of resources, depletion of nonrenewable resources, and resource conservation.
