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.
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Apr 26
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Game: Blowing up your world
An intermediate activity focusing on individual responsibility for saving the planet.
FROM TEACHING GREEN: THE MIDDLE YEARS
Amphibians and Two Game Structures
Role-playing games which help elementary students develop an empathetic relationship to the natural world, while learning about the lives of amphibians.
Herpetology for High School Students
Giving young people opportunities for hands-on field experiences with local species results in a successful and authentic environmental education program.
Unleashing Blessed Unrest As the Heating Happens
How learning spaces can help to avoid the worst scenarios now before us for the heating of the planet, followed by four learning activities
Developing a Sense of Place Through Native Science Activities
Twenty five basic activities inspired by the writings of people who have lived close to the land. These activities aim to develop a deeper sense of place by going beyond Western science to observe and interact with nature qualitatively as well as quantitatively.
Salad Farmers
A first-grade class in New York City tries to grow their own food as part of an integrated unit that combined science, social studies and literacy.
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.
