Environmental Education
- Climate Change (16)
Sesame Street in Communities is an online community for sharing Sesame Street’s free educational resources with the adults in children’s lives.
This website provides lesson plans on how to teach geology in the school yard by using maps, google earth, and different materials found outside.
Recycle Rex is a spokesdinosaur for CalRecycle (Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery). His message is simple: “Recycle, reduce, reuse, and close the loop.” Recycling is one of the easiest and best things we can do for Planet Earth. By recycling and then buying recycled products for home, school and play, we can really make a difference.
Here, students can interact with a city that recycles and will learn how and what to recycle.
The Rainforest Alliance provides educational resources to help students understand how important the rainforest is to our collective well being. The website provides lesson plans, rainforest presentations, articles, and profiles of native species to offer student opportunities for direct action.
Project Learning Tree (PLT) is a program of the American Forest Foundation that uses forests to engage young Americans and provide them with environmental education. PLT provides curriculum, programs, and other resources to educators so that they can introduce their students to an array of complex
Oceans For Youth Foundation is a non-profit that promotes underwater education and respect for the ocean in today’s youth. The foundation funds and organizes programs with a variety of education tools that help the next generation become more environmentally aware and interested in the preservation of the ocean. The website provides games, coloring books, and video to engage with its young users.
NeoK12 is a website that provides free online educational videos, lessons, quizzes, games, and puzzles about energy sources. The website discusses topics ranging from renewable energy to geothermal power.
National Environmental Education Foundation strives to advance environmental knowledge among health professionals to improve the public’s health with a special emphasis on children. This organization hopes to prevent serious health conditions such as child obesity by connecting children to nature and improving their physical activity.
National Center for Science Education (NCSE) offers resources on teaching about socially contentious issues, including a unit of climate change lessons developed and vetted by their NCSE Teacher Ambassadors. NCSE also has a range of helpful tips and strategies, from how to answer tough questions about evolution to how to testify at a school board meeting.
NASA’s Earth Math is a mathematical guide to earth science and climate change.
NASA’s Climate Kids offers content, links to games, and a discussion guide for teachers to present the evidence for climate change throughout the planet.