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Exploring the Environment - On-line educational modules from the NASA Classroom of the Future.
Air Quality Lesson Plans and Data (K-12) - Material designed to provide Texas educators with the background, activities and resources to teach the subject of air quality in the classroom.
The Bean Files - A science teaching resource for upper primary students, emphasizing sustainable agriculture. Focus is on Downsanup Downs, a farm in the grain belt of Western Australia. From the Centre for Legumes in Mediterranean Agriculture.
The Environmental Cyber School House - The Environmental Cyber Schoolhouse offers an interactive, web-based curriculum for 7th, 8th and 9th graders that teaches students about basic science and clinical research through interactive materials about lead poisoning and asthma.
The Countryside Foundation for Education - A UK educational charity that aims to inform and encourage debate about the countryside. Offers "Brings the Countryside into the Classroom" teaching materials for primary and secondary schools and in-service teacher training sessions.
Eelgrass Habitat - Eelgrass habitat centered curricula emphasizing vocabulary with a student activity and self-test. Grades 7 - 10.
Soil Safari - An educational project exploring and learning about soil, water resources, ecosystems, and the landscape. Free expedition packs (traversing England's Lower Kennet Valley) are available together with teacher's notes. Target audience is 8-11 year-olds.
Project Wild - Information about and sample materials from an interactive, interdisciplinary wildlife conservation and environmental education curriculum. Supported by U.S. natural resource agencies, designed for U.S. K-12 use.
The Leopold Education Project - An innovative, critical thinking, conservation and environmental education curriculum based on the classic writings of renowned conservationist Aldo Leopold.
Hands-on Experiments to Test for Acid Mine Drainage - Teaches kids about acid mine drainage and other environmental topics through a series of hands-on experiments.
Bridging the Border Education Project - Aims to develop environmental education resources using the River Tweed (UK) as a focus. Website has curriculum outlines relevant to both the Scottish and English curricula, events, things to do, and relevant internet links.
Facing the Future Teachers' Corner - Curriculum addressing sustainability, population, consumption and global issues is available in print and on line. Curriculum includes activities, discussion questions, research assignments and resources.
Earth Partnership for Schools: Schoolyard Habitat Restoration - Guides to conducting class activities and projects in ecological restoration, teacher summer institutes, woodland restoration curriculum for teachers, newsletter, and other curriculum resources. From UW-Madison Arboretum.
KHS-AP Environmental Science - Advanced Placement Environmental Sciences site at Kingston High School, New York, includes information on labs, field trips, and other class content.
HLMA's "Sustaining Penn's Woods" curriculum - Pennsylvania-specific forest education program developed for 5th-10th grade teachers to meet PA's academic standards for environment and ecology.
Nature Transformed: The Environment in American History - Teacher resources and topical essays on a wide range of topics in American environmental history.
Photo Synthesis Productions - This site describes the work of a non-profit filmmaking collective dedicated to making environmental issues engaging and relevant, especially to youth.
Gulf of Mexico Educator Resources - A collection of curricula, lesson plans, activities, and tutorials sponsored by the USEPA.
Plan-It Earth - "Pairing Learners And Nature with Innovative Technology for the Environmental Assessment of Resources Trends and Habitats" is a program designed to involve high schools in a hands-on, minds-on, tested environmental sciences program tailored to meet the needs of high school. From the Illinois Dept. of Natural Resources.
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