Essay examining the cultural and environmental changes spanning 300 years in the pre-Revolutionary South as three worlds, Native American, European, and African collide. Site includes guiding questions for student discussion and scholars...

Learners 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.

An inquiry-based science unit for middle school students centered on how human activities affect environmental changes related to land use. The lessons integrate technology and lab activities while teaching about today's land use and how...

Lessons for K-12 based on a series of maps teaches learners about the environmental changes resulting from mining in South Dakota, 1878.

The World Wildlife Fund offers a comprehensive overview of climate change, also known as "Global warming." Content includes basic information about the process and its effect on the environment, the science to back it up, conservation...

In this field investigation, students develop a question and investigation regarding an environmental change and its effect on insect visitation rates to a plant community.

Learning module introduces students to the human dimensions of global environmental change: human actions that initiate changes in the structure and operation of the biosphere; the consequences of these actions on terrestrial ecology;...

An entire site of resources specifically for environmental science and how it is linked to human health. Topics include water pollution, air pollution, climate change, and chemicals.

The signs of global climate change are becoming more and more evident. The EPA provides an excellent guide for students that acquaints them with the basic causes, effects on people and the environment, and solutions that they can engage...

Students learn about water management, treatment and purification- global issues that must be addressed to ensure a continued supply of safe water for the growing human population and for the organisms with which we share this planet.

Making Climate Change Relatable to Teens: The goal of my Earth and Environmental Science course is to provide students with the scientific principles, concepts, and methodologies required to understand the interrelationships of the...

A series of videos accompanied by student activity sheets explore the impact of climate change on the ocean and the animals that live in and around it: sea turtles, jellies, whales, shore birds, lobsters, and coral.

Students will build models that explain how small changes in the Earth system's components and processes can produce measurable global effects.

This site is an interesting article about Lake Baikal in Russia. This unique lake is helping scientists to learn more about the patterns of ecological change in the world and about the history of the world.

Find out about the devastating effects climate change is having on Florida's coral reef ecosystems.

Read and take action to fight global warming with these 6 tips, complete with links and other climate change resources.

[Free Registration/Login Required] A collection of twenty-six data sets from SEDAC (Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center) that examine land use and how human activities have impacted on land cover. They look at agriculture, loss of...

This superb site has detailed information about the composition of the atmosphere, how it is always changing, how it protects life on earth, and the destructive impact human activity has on it. There is an atmosphere design lab, as well...

A large collection of lessons on prairie agriculture for Pre-K to Grade 12, organized into grade level groups. They cover such topics as foods that come from agriculture, animal farming, soils, and environmental issues. These lessons on...

Resource for teachers and students on Rachel Carson and environmental consciousness in which author Linda Lear discusses Carson's work, Silent Spring, and how it changed public perception and raised evironmental awareness. Lots of...

Lesson plans for K-12 using maps that show the distribution of wooded land in 1873. Students examine the impact of humans on the environment.

An interesting site that shows early photographs by Henry Chandler Cowles and George Damon Fuller and others. The images range from ecological settings to the consequences of human changes to the environment.

Article explaining the importance of carbon as the basis for life, carbon dioxide's role in photosynthesis and respiration, carbon in the ocean and lithosphere, the impact of human activities on the carbon cycle, carbon that seems to be...

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.