"Making Progress" is a one page, fictional, reading passage about students clearing the trash from a vacant lot near the school and planting a garden to beautify the neighborhood and show they care. It is followed by constructed-response...

Find out why brush piles are beneficial to a habitat.

[Free Registration/Login Required] A literary text about a boy named Tyler who realized that he needed to pitch-in and help keep the park clean. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.

[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about working together to make the Earth a better place. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.

This resource provides basic information and photos of the Timber Wolf.

From July, 2006, photographic slideshow graphically detailing the tsunami that hit the Indonesian island of Java.

Female Alaskan Hares nurse their young for an extended period, providing them with enough nutrition to grow extraordinarily quickly during the short Alaskan summer. There is an average of six furry little hares in a litter, and females...

Kindergarten students will participate in schoolyard cleanup and learn to tell the difference between safe and unsafe litter.

In this lesson, learners will examine the litter they produce in their classroom and that their families produce at home, and identify ways they can reduce waste and recycle more.

Did you know that used bottles and cans often end up in landfills or worse, in our lakes and oceans or on the ground as litter! This pollution hurts birds, turtles, and other wildlife. These are some of the reasons why we should use...

[Free Registration/Login Required] A 2nd grade unit on how people and weather can change habitats. Topics include too much and too litter rain (flooding and drought), lightning and fire, and land, water, and air pollution. This flipchart...

Arizona Woodrats (or Packrats) typically have litters of two young, which can be born at any time of the year. Newborns weigh about 10 g. Learn more about the Neotoma devia, more commonly known as an Arizona Woodrat, in this easy-to-read...

The Southern Short-tailed Shrew is a highly active, primarily nocturnal predator. It is most common in moist, well-drained hardwood forests or pine stands, especially where deep organic litter provides easy burrowing for shelter and...

Pinyon Deermice reproduce from mid-February through mid-November, giving birth to litters of 3-6 blind, hairless young that weigh about 2.3 g each. Learn more about the Peromyscus truei, more commonly known as a Pinyon Mouse, in this...

Meadow Voles have a remarkable reproductive output: they are the world's most prolific mammals. Females can breed when they are a month old and produce litters of 3-10 pups every three weeks for the rest of their lives. Learn more about...

Jaguarundi are uniformly colored, rather than spotted, and are either reddish brown or dark gray. Both colors can appear in the same litter of kittens. Learn more about the Puma yaguarondi (Herpailurus yaguarondi), more commonly known as...

[Free Registration/Login Required] A literary text about a boy named Tyler who decides to do his part to help keep his community park clean. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.

Define and explore the concept of environmental citizenship through a series of literacy-based multimedia, online and hands-on learning experiences. Discover how responsible citizens can help protect their local communities by...

A short discussion of several different types of pollution and of the harm that it can do to the Earth. Includes a two-question reading-comprehension quiz.

This lesson plan is designed to teach young children about healthy and hazardous marine and freshwater environments and be able to describe the effects of the pollution of plastics on wildlife.

This is a site for the basic information on pigs. It gives you the life cycle, why they are raised, facts about their diets, the different species. Along with all that there are a few more interesting facts.

Lectica was a kind of couch or litter, in which persons, in a lying position, were carried from one place to another. They were used for carrying the dead as well as the living. The Greek lectica consisted of a bed or mattress, and a...

In this classroom activity, students discuss how people and pollution affect the environment. Then they demonstrate ways to recycle, reduce, and reuse.

This lesson plan is designed to teach young children identify the types of pollution, the sources of the pollution, and how they can protect the environment from further pollutants.