Curriculum Resources
Topic: Agricultural Sustainability
Title: Community School Garden Network
Description: The curriculum section provides over one hundred garden-based lessons to create, expand, and sustain garden-based learning experiences. It offers practical ideas and resources for every level of garden-based learning from sprouting seeds to understanding the food system.
Location/Website: http://www.csgn.org/page.php?id=22 and http://www.csgn.org/page.php?id=32
Topic: Agricultural Sustainability
Title: Wacky Garden Helpers from your Kitchen
Description: Tips and information on food and supplies from your kitchen that help your garden grow, pamper your plants and drive away pests
Location/Website: http://www.organicgardening.com/pdf/WackyGardenDL.PDF
Topic: Consumption
Title: Facing the Future
Description: A collection of lessons that highlight human resource consumption, the implications and possible solutions to our consumption problem
Location/Website: http://www.facingthefuture.org/Curriculum/BuyUseToss/tabid/469/Default.aspx
Topic: Energy
Title: E21 or Energy Education for the 21st Century
Description: E21 or Energy Education for the 21st Century provides free media-rich curriculum for middle and high school educators and students including lesson plans and short videos focused on energy issues.
Location/Website: www.pspb.org/e21/
Topic: Energy/ Food Security
Title: Energy, Engines and the Environment Lessons
Description: This site is a collection of lesson plans and resources that focus on energy and the environment.Bottom site is Food Security
Location/Website: http://www.yale.edu/ynhti/curriculum/units/2004/4/ and http://www.yale.edu/ynhti/curriculum/units/2002/5/
Topic: Environmental Injustice/ Human Rights
Title: Americans who tell the truth
Description: Based on artist Robert Shetterly’s book, Americans Who Tell the Truth, which contains portraits and biographies of American activists. Offers curricula for middle and high school students on topics including environmental justice, political justice, and economic justice.
Location/Website: http://www.americanswhotellthetruth.org/
Topic: Environmental Injustice
Title: EJ curriculum by LEJ
Description: This is a unit on environmental justice sheroes and heroes. It asks studnets to research an environmental shero/hero.
Location/Website: http://www.lejyouth.org/educator/callingnature/freemodules/Environmental_Justice.pdf
Topic: Environmental Injustice
Title: Project-Based Learning and the Gulf Oil Spill
Description: A collection of resources and that highlight the impact of the Gulf oil spill.
Location/Website: http://www.edutopia.org/blog/oil-spill-project-based-learning-resources
Topic: Environmental Issues
Title: Edutopia’s Go Green
Description: Edutopia’s Go Green database contains a wide variety of searchable tools, resources and curriculum for bringing environmental issues to the classroom.
Location/Website: http://www.edutopia.org/go-green
Topic: Evnironmental Issues
Title: Facing the Future
Description: Download FREE Global Issues and Sustainability Curriculum
Browse Facing the Future's free curriculum downloads by subject, grade level, or resource type. For more information about how our curriculum impacts students and educators please visit What Educators Say. Downloads by subject
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Location/Website: http://www.facingthefuture.org/Curriculum/DownloadFreeCurriculum/tabid/114/Agg1389_SelectTab/3/Default.aspx#Download_Curriculum_by_Subject
Topic: Environmental Issues
Title: Green Education Foundation (GEF)
Description: Green Education Foundation (GEF) is a non-profit organization that provides environmental education resources for Pre K-12 classrooms and youth groups nationwide. GEF lessons are free, searchable and aligned with standards.
Location/Website: http://www.greeneducationfoundation.org/
Topic: Environmental Issues
Title: Green Faith
Description: An interfaith group that promotes environmental leadership. Offers a six-session curriculum for teenagers based on The Story of Stuff.
Location/Website: www.greenfaith.org
Topic: Environmental Issues
Title: Green Schools
Description: The Website of the Green Schools Initiative, offers curricula and activity ideas, including steps for doing environmental audits on schools. Also makes available a comprehensive Sustainability Curricula Directory.
Location/Website: www.greenschools.net
Topic: Environmental Issues
Title: KQED QUEST Earth Day Special
Description: Educator Guide
A resource for using QUEST video in the classroom
Watch it online http://www.kqed.org/quest/television/view/227 | 28:16 minutes
Location/Website: http://www.kqed.org/quest/files/download/33/107_EarthDay.pdf
Topic: Environmental Issues
Title: No Impact Man
Description: This project is derived from the book and documentary film, No Impact Man, about one family’s efforts to live a zero-waste lifestyle in New York City. Provides five lessons on consumption, energy, food, transportation, and water.
Location/Website: www.noimpactproject.org
Topic: Environmental Issues
Title: PBS Teachers
Description: PBS Teachers is PBS' national website for preK-12 educational resources. The site offers thousands of free lesson plans, teaching activities, on-demand video assets, and interactive games and simulations.
Location/Website: www.pbs.org/teachers/
Topic: Environmental Issues
Title: Project Learning Tree (PLT)
Description: Project Learning Tree (PLT) creates pre K-12 curriculum to increase students' understanding of our environment. PLT is a program of The American Forest Foundation and many lessons focus on forest ecology. Free lessons available online.
Location/Website: www.plt.org/
Topic: Environmental Issues
Title: Teacher's Domain at KQED
Description: Enter Teachers' Domain using the KQED log-in window below. Once logged in, find local KQED resources by clicking on the Special Collections tab located on the Teachers' Domain landing page. Here you will find the KQED Science Media Collection, a grouping of Teachers' Domain resources which incorporate Bay Area themes, specifically designed for Bay Area educators. These resources contain high-quality, lesson plans, background essays, and other media extracted from popular KQED shows like QUEST, SPARK and Jean-Michel Cousteau: Ocean Adventures. Be sure to keep checking back as new resources and collections will be added! You will also have access to the thousands of other Teachers' Domain resources in the larger archive. Registration and access is completely FREE!
Location/Website: http://www.kqed.org/education/digitalmedia/teachers-domain.jsp
Topic: Environmental Issues
Title: The Ecology Center
Description:
The Ecology Center's mission is to promote environmentally and socially responsible practices through programs that educate, demonstrate, and provide direct services. On their website they provide a large searchable database of lessons focused on a wide range of accessible environmental issues.
Location/Website: http://ecologycenter.org/tfs/search.php
Topic: Environmental Issues
Title: Tom McKeag BioDreamMachine
Description: Welcome to our website! We hope you enjoy your visit. This is a site for K-12 teachers and students looking for ways to use nature as an inspiration and guide for problem-solving. Whatever you want to call it, bio-inspired design, biomimicry, or biomimetics, it is a fascinating subject... and it is rich in solutions to some of our planet's most pressing problems.
Besides, what could be cooler than using hippo sweat as a sun block, or designing buildings based on bubbles, or having a sharkskin swimsuit? We hope you will let us help you build your next BioDreamMachine.
Location/Website: http://biodreammachine.org/
Topic: Environmental Issues/ Human Rights
Title: Calling Nature Home: Restoring Environmental Justice in an Urban Wetland --
Environmental Education Curriculum
Description: LEJ's unique K-12 curriculum focuses on environmental health and justice, with lesson modules that directly address the daily lives of urban children and youth. While the modules were created for the natural areas in southeast San Francisco, many of the activities can be applied to any wetland area. The 2nd edition has been completely revised, and each module is matched to California State standards.
Location/Website: http://www.lejyouth.org/educator/res.html
Topic: Environmental Issues/ Human Rights
Title: Edliberation Resources - Environment and Social Justice
Description: This site offers free, downloadable lesson plans and activities that focus on environmental issues and human rights.
Location/Website: http://www.edliberation.org/resources/records/edsearch?getCategory=Social Justice: Environment
Topic: Environmental Issues/ Human Rights
Title: Facing the Future
Description: Facing the Future is a Seattle-based organization that develops K-12 curriculum focused on global and sustainability issues. Topics include energy, consumption, water, and human rights and the website offers many free curriculum downloads.
Location/Website: www.facingthefuture.org
Topic: Environmental Issues/ Human Rights
Title: Small Science
Description: A collaboration of scientists, artists, students, and anyone else interested in science, this project produces small zines and web comics on a variety of topics . Read online, download zines, and share your ideas here!
Location/Website: http://smallsciencezines.blogspot.com/
Topic: Environmental Issues/ Human Rights
Title: The Learning Network
Description: The Learning Network provides teaching and learning materials and ideas based on New York Times content. Teachers can use or adapt the Learning Network’s free lessons across subject areas and levels.
Location/Website: http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/category/lesson-plans/
Topic: Environmental Issues/ Human Rights
Title: Oxfam Education
Description: Oxfam Education offers a huge range of ideas, resources and support for developing the global dimension in the classroom and the whole school. All of the resources here support Education for Global Citizenship – education that helps pupils understand their world and make a positive difference in it.
Oxfam Education offers a huge range of ideas, resources and support for developing the global dimension in the classroom and the whole school. All of the resources here support Education for Global Citizenship – education that helps pupils understand their world and make a positive difference in it.
Location/Website: http://www.oxfam.org.uk/education/
Topic: Environmental Issues/ Human Rights
Title: PBS Teachers
Description: News Hour Extra provides free current events resources for busy teachers including news stories (10th grade level), pictures, maps, videos, lesson plans, and student stories.
Location/Website: http://www.pbs.org/newshour/extra/
Topic: Environmental Issues/ Human Rights
Title: The Population Connection
Description: Population Connection is a national grassroots population organization that educates young people and advocates progressive action to stabilize world population at a level that can be sustained by Earth's resources. Free K-12 curriculum available online.
Location/Website: www.populationconnection.org
Topic: Food Security
Title: Healthy Neighborhoods, Healthy Kids
Description: The Healthy Neighborhoods/Healthy Kids project was initiated in 2003 by Smart Growth Vermont, in partnership with Shelburne Farms’ Sustainable Schools Project. It was designed to introduce school students to concepts related to community design, public safety, civic engagement, and personal health, focusing on the relationship between the "health" of our neighborhoods and our personal well-being. By using SSP’s framework of Education for Sustainability (EFS) and tools from Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe’s Understanding by Design, in conjunction with Smart Growth Vermont’s research and understanding of Vermont’s settlement patterns and the relationship between neighborhood development and design on public health and safety, this project was developed to support current curriculum and the goals of education standards while engaging students in developing sustainable communities.
Location/Website: http://store.shelburnefarms.org/category/education_resources/
Topic: Geography
Title: The Map as Art: Contemporary Artists Explore Cartography
Description:
Location/Website: http://www.amazon.com/Vertical-Farm-World-Grows-Up/dp/0312611390/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1271363314&sr=8-2
Topic: Human Rights/ Economic Development
Title: Pennies for Peace
Description: Offers a curriculum, developed by the Pearson Foundation, based on Greg Mortensen’s book, Three Cups of Tea. Lessons are targeted for content standards in Social Studies, Language Arts, and Mathematics.
Location/Website: www.penniesforpeace.org
Topic: Sustainability
Title: Beyond Benign
Description: A non-profit group that promotes sustainable science. Provides resources, lesson plans, and experiments based on the “12 Principles of Green Chemistry.”
Location/Website: http://www.beyondbenign.org/
Topic: Sustainability
Title: Buy, Use, Toss - a closer look at the things we buy
Description: This website has access to free, downloadable curriculum. With a focus on sustainability issues.
Location/Website: http://www.facingthefuture.org/Curriculum/DownloadFreeCurriculum/tabid/114/Default.aspx
Topic: Sustainability
Title: California Academy of Sciences
Description: Lesson Plans: Topics in Sustainability
Location/Website: http://www.calacademy.org/teachers/lounge/?p=600
Topic: Sustainability
Title: Ecoliteracy
Description: Website of the Center for Ecoliteracy, which looks at ecological topics such as school gardens, school lunches, and sustainability. Offers instructional resources including a high-school-level discussion guide for the documentary film, Food Inc.
Location/Website: www.ecoliteracy.org
Topic: Sustainability
Title: No Impact Project Lesson
Description: A collection of lessons that focus on reducing carbon footprints and having as small an impact on the earth as possible.
Location/Website: http://noimpactproject.org/educators-middle-high-school-environment-curriculum-html/lesson-plan-3-of-5-food/
Topic: Sustainability
Title: UN Cyber School-bus
Description: UN Cyber School-bus provides leveled curriculum, interactive projects, games and readings on topics such as urbanization, nuclear arms, reforestation and human rights. Location/Website: http://www.un.org/cyberschoolbus/cur.html
Topic: Sustainable Architecture
Title: Cooper-Hewitt’s Educators’ Resource Center
Description: Cooper-Hewitt’s Educators’ Resource Center provides teachers with resources and lesson plans to engage students in the design process including green design.
Location/Website: http://www.educatorresourcecenter.org
Topic: Sustainable Architecture
Title: Kids Gardening
Description: Kids Gardening is an online hub for resources, curriculum, classroom projects and ideas related to gardening with young people.
Location/Website: http://www.kidsgardening.com/
Topic: Water
Title: Project Wet.org
Description: Educate. Empower. Act. The mission of Project WET is to reach children, parents, educators and communities of the world with water education. We invite you to join us in educating children about the most precious resource on the planet — water.
Location/Website: http://www.projectwet.org/water-education-project-wet/project-wet-publications/project-wet-curriculum-activity-guide/
Topic: Water
Title: Safewater.org
Description: A series of lessons that focus on the importance of water as a resource
Location/Website: http://www.safewater.org/lessons-members#owp
Topic: Water
Title: Water.org
Description: A series of lessons that focus on the importance of water as a resource
Location/Website: http://water.org/learn-about-the-water-crisis/lessonplan/
Topic: Water/ Environmental Issues
Title: US Geological Survey
Description: A guide for teaching about Coastal Wetlands
Location/Website: http://www.nwrc.usgs.gov/fringe/ff_index.html
