Skip to content

Posts tagged ‘science’

Connecting Students with Special Needs to the Environment

Learn how to integrated environmental education into the curriculum in ways that supplement and enrich the learning experiences of students with disabilities.
From "Teaching Green: The High School Years."

Read more

Hemlock Holmes: Tree Detective

Teach elementary students about trees and their ring patterns by solving environmental science mysteries.
AN EXCERPT FROM GREEN TEACHER'S SPRING 2013 ISSUE.

Read more

Doing Business in Birmingham

This award-winning project leverages technology to help students understand and promote sustainability within the local business community.
AN EXCERPT FROM GREEN TEACHER'S SPRING 2013 ISSUE.

Read more

Two-Eyed Seeing As a Way of Knowing

Two-Eyed Seeing (also known as integrative science, native science, and ecological metissage) is a term describing a way of understanding the world from two cultural perspectives – Western scientific knowledge and native science.
AN EXCERPT FROM GREEN TEACHER'S SPRING 2013 ISSUE.

Read more

Sustainable Futures: An Interdisciplinary Unit at the Australian Science and Maths School

Students at a specialized senior science and math high school in Australia enjoy an interdisciplinary curriculum, within a new building where more than half of the floor spaces is comprised of open-concept Learning Commons. The authors describe in detail the sustainable gardens project that asks students to consider local conditions in choosing their design and which flora and fauna to include. Includes a rubric which can be applied to similar projects elsewhere.

Read more

Dig, Measure and Observe

Independent work stations develop science skills during guided reading group instruction in the primary grades.

Read more

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.

Read more

The Peanut Pageant

Engaging students in contemporary science controversies.

Read more

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.

Read more

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.

Read more