Environmental Writing Projects: Empowering Students, Documenting the Natural World
Writing based on hands-on research teaches environmental science and develops literacy skills for grades 6-12 students.
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Mar 30
Mar 30
Humane Education: A Foundation for Connecting with All of Earth’s Inhabitants
Activities to integrate humane values - especially the merits of kindness and empathy towards all creatures - into curricula for all grade levels.
Mar 30
Creating Earth Adventures: Self-Guided Programs to Connect Children with Nature
Creating self-guided outdoor learning experiences that help 5-12 year old children appreciate a specific natural area and understand its connections with a larger context.
Acting Out Energy Forms
A very active activity for grades K-8 which teaches about different forms of kinetic, potential, and renewable energy. Helps provide a context for teaching scientific principles related to energy transformations, chemical transformations, electricity and light, which are central to many clean energy technologies.
Mar 30
The Hawk in the Nest
A circle game similar to “The Farmer in the Dell”, which teaches children up to age eight about food chains within a given habitat. Builds students’ understanding of how energy is transferred through various creatures within a community.
Mar 30
From Seals to Snails: Understanding Eelgrass
Provides background information and activities for grades 5-8 on the protective role of the marine plant eelgrass, the complexities involved in cleaning up polluted watersheds, the effects of environmental stressors on eelgrass function, and the impact of declining eelgrass populations on fish.
Mar 27
Key Terms in Environmental Fields: Establishing a Foundation
An activity that helps high school students correct the misconceptions associated with key terms from environmental science and related fields. The activity engages, identifies and clarifies students’ understanding of basic definitions of these terms.
Apr 1
India’s Recycling: Challenges and Lessons
Lacking comprehensive state-sponsored recycling ventures, India has recently experienced an outgrowth of programs sponsored by local and international organizations whose mandate is to raise awareness about environmental issues and to promote recycling programs in India. Suhasini Jayakumar’s article explores this recent trend.
Apr 1
The “Who-Am-I” Project
A year-long independent set of tasks that gets middle school students thinking about their relationship with the natural world around them.
Apr 1
Earth and Religion: Seeking a Common Ground
A report on the interfaith/environmental conference “Earth & Religion: Crisis, Opportunity, Convergence,” held June 9-12, at Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York. The conference brought together those who were re-examining their faith traditions, in order to uncover an underlying Earth ethic that could form the basis of environmental action by their congregations.
