Into the Outdoors
Into the Outdoors: Black Bear Biology
Presents information about the black bear. Watch the accompanying video to learn how this omnivore's adaptation allows it to survive and reproduce. Site also includes lesson plans about the black bear. [10:22]
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Global, Environmental, & Outdoor Education Council: Homepage
The goal of GEOEC is to promote professional development and support for teachers in teaching global and environmental topics. Resources include lesson plans, curriculum resources, articles and professional development opportunities.
Into the Outdoors
Into the Outdoors: Comparing Fish Life Cycles
A video exploring life cycles of different species living in the same ecosystem and the influence of the ecosystem on the animal's life. Students will learn about comparisons in the animals' sexual maturity age, quantity of eggs laid,...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Life Science: Outdoor Air Pollution
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Air pollution is due to chemical substances and particles released into the air mainly by human actions. This pollution affects entire ecosystems around the world....
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Printable Lesson: Litterbug Clean Up!
In this printable lesson plan, children will learn about the environment by going outdoors and picking up litter. Use this printable lesson plan, video clips, science notebook pages, and support materials from the PBS KIDS show Elinor...
EL Education
El Education: The Ware Wanderers Guide to the Outdoors
In this lesson students explore local outdoor adventure sites and then use written descriptions and photographs to present information in a guide community members can use to learn more about rivers, trails, and other natural areas.
Cynthia J. O'Hora
Mrs. O's House: Early Spring Outdoor Investigation Mystery
Students will use their observation skills to determine what happened in photographs provided.
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: Detention or Eco Club: Choosing Your Future
Growing up surrounded by gangs in South Central Los Angeles, Juan Martinez wasn't exposed to the great outdoors. One day in high school, he was given the life-changing choice between detention or Eco Club. He chose nature and has since...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Life Science: 12.24 Air Pollution
Learn about some sources of outdoor air pollution.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Ecology/geography Classification
This outdoor lesson helps middle schoolers better understand ecological and geographical classifications by teaching it simultaneously in science and geography class. Presenting the two classifications together will help reinforce the...
Cynthia J. O'Hora
Mrs. O's House: Positive Weather Reports
After reviewing local weather reports, young scholars will think about whether the presentation of the reports is driving folks to not participate in outdoor activities. The class will create new weather reports that will turn negative...
Cynthia J. O'Hora
Mrs. O's House: Biodiversity Exploration Investigation
A scientific task sending students into the great outdoors to discover a plant they do not know and record observations of that new plant.
Scholastic
Scholastic: Professional Development Tutorial: Increasing Vocabulary
This tutorial is a sample lesson plan from a Scholastic Red session on vocabulary development.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Mn Step: The American Red Squirrel an Outdoor Inquiry Lesson
For this activity, pupils are presented with red pine cones that have been partly eaten by the American Red Squirrel, a fact that is not divulged to them at this stage. After a discussion of the possibilities, the class takes a walk in...
Michigan Reach Out
Reach Out! Michigan: Animal or Plant
This site provides a basic lesson plan from Reach Out! Michigan comparing plants to animals.
National Endowment for the Humanities
Neh: Edsit Ement: The First Great Awakening
In the middle of the 18th century, a series of evangelical religious revival movements swept across colonial America. Known as the First Great Awakening, the movements were characterized by emotional religious conversions from a state of...
BioEd Online
Bio Ed Online: Detecting Air Pollution
In this lesson students are asked to create model air pollution detectors to sample particles in indoor aiand outdoor air.
BioEd Online
Bio Ed Online: There's Something in the Air
Many kinds of gases and particles travel through, and become dispersed in air. Substances in air become concentrated in enclosed spaces. In this lesson to model the movement of pollutants through the air and particle concentration,...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Introduction to Environmental Challenges in China
Through an overview of some of the environmental challenges facing the growing and evolving country of China today, students learn about the effects of indoor and outdoor air pollution that China is struggling to curb with the help of...
Primary Resources
Primary Resources: Pe
Primary Resources provide pdf and html documents for lessons that include: warm-up activities, dance & gymnastics, invasion games, striking & fielding games, net/wall games, fitness & athletics, outdoor & adventurous...
California State University
A Bird's Eye View
With this lesson plan students will create a chalk drawing of an outdoor scene from a bird's-eye view. Lesson includes links to perspective drawing techniques and examples.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Getting to the Point
In this lesson, learners learn how to determine location by triangulation. We describe the process of triangulation and practice finding your location on a worksheet, in the classroom, and outdoors.
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: How Architecture Helped Music Evolve
As his career grew, David Byrne went from playing CBGB to Carnegie Hall. He asks: Does the venue make the music? From outdoor drumming to Wagnerian operas to arena rock, he explores how context has pushed musical innovation. [16:00]
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Life Science: Indoor Air Pollution
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Recall that air pollution is due to chemical substances and particles released into the air mainly by human actions. When most people think of air pollution, they...