Swimming with Animals
Using simple swimming lessons to foster connections to other life forms and appreciation of what they have to teach us.
Mar 31
Mar 31
Singapore Sensory Trail
In this inter-cultural and inter-generational community project, expatriate students designed an interpretive trail to provide access to nature for visually impaired citizens of Singapore.
Mar 31
Moving Toward Sustainability? The Face of Environmental Education in Singapore
The challenges of educating for sustainability in one of the world’s most highly urbanized settings.
Mar 31
Water: Local Pollution, Global Confusion!
Activities for raising awareness of water quality problems and solutions, locally and globally, with middle school students.
Mar 31
Climate Change and Regional Geography
Climate change can bring an immediate and pressing relevance to the study of geography, coaxing new ideas out of worn textbooks.
Mar 30
Planet Transit: Profit or Survival?
A game of economic development choices and consequences for Grades 9 and up (ages 14+).
Mar 30
Stormwater Runoff: Understanding the Ecological Impacts of Changing Land Uses
In this unit for ages 10 to 14, students learn how land use changes can reduce the water quality of nearby lakes and streams, calculate runoff from their school grounds and investigate best management practices.
Mar 30
Green Tsunami Rising: Environmental Education’s Third Wave
How can environmental educators prepare to exploit the current surge of interest in all things “green” to promote environmental literacy? Mike Weilbacher offers tips for riding the next green wave.
Teaching Carbon Regulation in the High School Classroom
A simulation that compares carbon taxes vs. cap-and-trade and other carbon regulatory systems.
Mar 30
Making Natural Connections
Two lessons help students at all grade levels to draw interdisciplinary connections between social studies and ecology, and to integrate civics, science and mathematics.
