Geographypods
Geographypods: Patterns in Environmental Quality and Sustainability
This collection of five learning modules looks at issues related to environmental change and sustainability. Topics addressed include changes in the atmosphere, soil, water, and biodiversity, and what can be done to counteract this and...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Environmental Public Health: How Does Your Environment Affect Your Health?
In this self-paced lesson, students learn how environmental factors affect the health of living things, including humans.
Idaho State University
Idaho State University: Environmental Geology: What Is Environmental Geography?
Explore the General Introduction to Environmental Geology, Environmental Ethics, The Environmental Crisis, and Fundamental Concepts of the Environmental Sciences in this class resource. Lesson plans and activities are offered to help...
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Florida Dept. Of Education: Conservation of Renewable and Nonrenewable Resources
In this learning module, students learn to differentiate between renewable and nonrenewable resources, and identify resources that fit into each category. It explains the environmental effects of using nonrenewable resources, such as...
Princeton University
Princeton: Outdoor: Environmental Careers
A guide to outdoor and environmental careers from Princeton University. Information on types of careers, books, and general resources.
Other
U.s. Green Building Council: Leadership in Energy & Environmental Design
LEED is a program for green building certification. Buildings are rated on a points system in one of five categories, including building design and construction, interior design and construction, building operations and maintenance,...
Idaho State University
Idaho State University: Global Processes, Resources and Our Ecological Footprint
An extensive report on the creation of our ecological footprint on the earth and how it impacts the global processes and natural resources.
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Environmental Worldviews, Ethics, and Sustainability
Through this interactive module, history has shown that the multifaceted aspects of nature have been overlooked many times in the past. And thus, our pursuit to control our environment has failed and left us wanting. What does the future...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Bingo! Using Environmental Print to Practice Reading
Contains plans for two lessons that teach environmental print to students using bingo games and matching cards. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to sites used in the lessons as well as...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Lesson Plan: Environmental Print
This lesson introduces students to the concept of reading through common items from the community. Through examining these items (environmental print), students will practice their reading skills and begin to see themselves as competent...
Other
Environmental History: Between Science and Philosophy
Gain a perspective on the origins of the contemporary environmental crisis, where an awareness of the environment came into being.
Other
Pesticide Action Network: Environmental Impacts
An environmental action agency provides information on events that demonstrate how pesticides may wreak havoc on the environment and threaten the food web for years. Examples of effects on honeybees, bats, and frogs are provided.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Environmental Public Health: Human Impact on Water Quality
In this lesson, students explore human impact on water resources, investigate the quality of their community's water supply, and consider ways to clean up and avoid further pollution. (Note: Some of the links may no longer work and...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Environmental Public Health: Understanding Air: Air Pollution & Modeling Pollutants With Lego Bricks
In this instructional activity, students learn about the chemical reactions that release various pollutants into the atmosphere and what happens when pollutants in the air are exposed to sunlight. They model incomplete combustion using...
Cosmo Learning
Cosmo Learning: The Atmosphere, the Ocean, and Environmental Change
A collection of video lectures from a course that explores the physical processes the control Earth's atmosphere, ocean, and climate that is taught at Yale University. The course covers topics like clouds, rain, severe storms, regional...
Other
Itc: Ecological Evaluation for Environmental Impact Assessment [Pdf]
Find out how environmental degradation and the depletion of natural resources induced by human activities have attracted steadily growing concerns in the last decades.
National Institutes of Health
National Institute of Environmental Health Services: Lead Poisoning
This comprehensive resource explains everything from the characteristics of a lead atom to symptoms of lead poisoning.
Other
Patagonia: A Bear's Journey (An Animal Migration Resource)
A resource about one grizzly bear's 50-mile migration that underscores the environmental issues associated with shrinking wildlife habitats.
Climate Literacy
Clean: Ecological Footprint
Students explore their own ecological footprint in the context of how many Earths it would take if everyone used the same amount of resources they did. They compare this to the ecological footprint of individuals in other parts of the...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: La'ona De Wilde: Environmental Biologist
In this video profile produced for Teachers' Domain, meet La'ona DeWilde, an environmental biologist who integrates her Athabascan heritage and her Western scientific training to help remote Alaskan villages address environmental issues.
Choices Program, Brown University
Choices: Teaching With the News: Global Environment: Considering u.s. Policy
Through videos and handouts, students gain a better understanding of what U.S. policy should be concerning global environmental issues. They willexplore four divergent policy options on the question of U.S. global environment policy and...
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: Goo Be Gone: Cleaning Up Oil Spills
Oil spills devastate wildlife and our precious water resources. Test the absorptivity of different materials (sorbents) to discover which ones are best at removing oil from water in this brief lab.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Global Trends Quiz
In this interactive quiz from NOVA, take the Environmental Challenge and test your knowledge of human impact on the world's natural resources and climate.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Exploring Environmental Change
Students explore the connections that can exist in a natural environment, and examine how changes to the environment, particularly those caused by human activity, can affect those connections.