• Recognizing the impact of society on human health and environmental conditions

Positively Paper
In this lesson students will understand the chemical processes involved in recycling paper and recognize the environmental issues in using and recycling different kinds of paper.

Earthwise Choices for a Healthy Planet
Nine lessons (in PDF format) cover topics relating to soil, composting, worm composting, reuse, recycling, plants, bugs, and birds.

A Philanthropic Puppet Project:  Garbage—A Puppet's Paradise
The purpose of this lesson is to teach students about different types of puppets so they can make their own puppets out of recycled materials.

Don't use it all up!
Students will demonstrate an understanding of the fact that individuals place demands on natural resources; demonstrate an understanding of the visual demonstration of sponges and water represents human resource consumption; and construct examples of how they can conserve natural resources.

Why We Recycle
By completing this lesson, students will learn about recycling, and in the process demonstrate their reading comprehension skills, including reading strategies, inference, literal meaning, and critical analysis.

Waste Not, Want Not
The issue of solid waste disposal is among the major environmental problems challenging us today. This unit has lessons to help students understand why there is a need to reduce, reuse, and recycle trash.

Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
Students will explain how different resources are recycled.

Trash Pizza
Municipal solid waste is collected in landfills. The amount of land available for landfills is limited in many areas. Students will create a trash pizza circle graph to represent the different categories of solid waste sent to landfills.

Rah! Rah! Recycle
This two week unit on recycling will help children understand: the need to recycle, what can be recycled, and what will happen to their earth if we do not recycle.

Energy Conservation
Students will identify examples of wasteful energy use, define conservation, and identify ways to conserve energy.

Environmental Fair
Students need to become aware of the environmental concerns of the earth.

Planet Earth
This is an introductory lesson in measuring individual, family, and community involvement in caring for the earth. It includes using questionnaires, interview techniques, statistical information, graphing skills, and being able to compare and contrast beginning and ending results.
 

Kids For Saving Earth This website provides free environmental education curriculum by mail and online. Conservation, endangered species, rainforests, forests, toxic waste sites, health issues, and many more ecological concerns are covered on this website. Earth day should be every day!

Environmental Coloring Sheets These coloring sheets can help kids learn about the environment and what can be done to keep it clean.

Earth Day Arcade This website has four interactive games about recycling and pollution.

Recycle Zone: Fun Zone This website has interactive games and quizzes about reducing, reusing, and recycling.

Earth 911 This website gives access to games and activities, books and lesson plans, and other tools to help students learn about the environment.

Conservation Information for Kids This website from the United States Department of Agriculture has activities and information about conservation.

Edible Soil This website has a recipe for edible layers of soil.

EPA Water Pollution Prevention and Conservation This website offers information about water pollution and conservation. It has lesson plans, but the lessons are more appropriate for upper elementary grades.

Science Online A must see! Great site for links to Blueprint Skills, Lesson Plans, Topical Sites, Interactive Websites for Students and Worksheets

Science Clips You will find an alphabetical list of science interactive movie clips.

Suggestions for English Language Learners (ELLs):
(E/B=Entering/Beginning, D=Developing, E=Expanding)

E/B: Students will classify litter collected outside, dividing it between recyclable and nonrecyclable materials; D: ...and will use the collected data to predict, then calculate how much is recyclable and how much is not; E: ...and will start a school wide recycling program.
E/B: Students will fill in a graphic organizer, placing homes from their native country under the appropriate climate zone;
D: ...and will compare a teepee and an igloo and draw conclusions as to why they were built as they were; E: ...and will be given a climate and be asked to develop two different kinds of housing for that climate.
E/B: Students will read (or teacher will read aloud) The Giving Tree and apply its principles to everyday life. Students will make a personalized version of the story by making a book; D: Students will make displays demonstrating the products made from trees; E: Students will research and map forested areas of the world.
E/B: Students will listen as the teacher reads the book The Giving Tree aloud. Students will then use a graphic organizer to diagram how each problem is solved and how each solution creates new problems. Students will use pictures in their diagrams, labeling each picture with either "problem" or "solution"; D: ...and will write simple sentences to go along with their pictures; E: ...and will write more complex sentences to go along with their pictures.

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