Practical Action
Climate Change - Who's In Control?
How can both individuals and governments respond to climate change and take responsibility to reduce its effects on our environment? Here you will find three lessons filled with discussion, debate, and role-playing...
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Trash! How Cities Work: Dealing with Garbage in the US and India
Students identify how different cultures deal with the challenge of trash. Read an excerpt from a chapter book based on real life written from the Southern Indian perspective. Describe the life of a street child in Southern India....
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Mapping the Effects of War
Students examine how war can lead to environmental health crises. They read an article, conduct research on a region from the article, and create a poster to depict the geographic region and the environmental health effects of the conflict.
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Environmental Security and Ecological Intervention
Young scholars examine environmental changes . In this investigative lesson students view a film then complete and activity that includes a debate.
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Innate Behavior
In this innate behavior activity, students compare inherited behavior and instinctive behavior. Students also look at behaviors resulting from internal and external cues. This activity has 4 short answer, 4 matching, 4 true or false, and...
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United States -- Soviet Cooperation
High schoolers examine the competition between the United States and Russia to put the first man in space. In groups, they use the internet to identify areas in which the two countries cooperated with one another to promote space...