Unit Plan
Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Ap Environmental Science: Introduction

For Students 9th - 10th
An introductory module with interactive activities, class notes, lab activities, and review questions which cover advanced placement environmental science concepts.
Website
PBS

Kqed Quest: A Different Kind of Science and Nature Adventure

For Students 9th - 10th
A multimedia offering for teachers and learners to explore the latest science, nature, and environment stories.
Website
University of Wisconsin

The Why Files: Science Behind the News

For Students 9th - 10th
The Why? Files from the University of Wisconsin explains the science behind the news. The website, tackling issues in news headlines, provides a good mix of information and interactivity that takes the "chore" out of learning.
eBook
Other

University of Wisconsin: The Physical Environment

For Students 9th - 10th
Online textbook used in an introductory-level college geology course, illustrated and embedded with a variety of media. Suitable for advanced placement courses in the earth and environmental sciences.
Interactive
Concord Consortium

Concord Consortium: Stem Resources: Changes in the Environment

For Students 3rd - 5th
An activity to help students understand that as the environment changes, plants and animals must evolve to stay alive. Students watch as a mystery plants grow in a changing environment to see if they will evolve or go extinct.
Website
Teachnology

Teachnology: Environment Teaching Theme

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Enhance classroom studies about the environment with these lesson plans, activities, and more.
Unit Plan
Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: The Interdisciplinary Nature of Environmental Science

For Students 9th - 10th
This interactive module gives students the opportunity to study how environmental science integrates several different disciplines of science as well as economics and political science.
Unit Plan
Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Ap Environmental Science: Course Introduction

For Students 9th - 10th
An introduction to Environmental Science, an interdisciplinary field of study that integrates the biological and physical sciences in an effort to understand environmental systems, and the solutions to both man-made and natural...
Unit Plan
Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Introduction to Environmental Science

For Students 9th - 10th
With this collection of video tutorials and student assignments, students learn about the interdisciplinary science that focuses primarily on solving environmental problems.
Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Earth Science: Impact of Continued Global Warming

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] How continued global warming will impact the environment.
Website
New York Times

New York Times: Science

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] The New York Times maintains daily coverage of the latest in environmental news, including geology, global warming, wildlife and earthquakes.
Activity
Other

Siemens Science Day: Earth Science: Tragedy of the Commons

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students will play a game and explore the relationship between people and their environment and how people regulate their resources.
Website
University of California

Wise: The Web Based Inquiry Science Environment

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Enter a place where students and teachers can examine real world current science controversies. This resource allows teachers to choose and grade a project based on their curriculum. The students can...
Website
University of California

Wise: The Web Based Inquiry Science Environment

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] WISE provides a wide range of science inquiry projects that address contemporary and traditional topics in earth science, the life sciences, physics, and chemistry. Work is done online, and teachers can...
Interactive
BBC

Bbc Schools: Ks2 Bitesize: Science: The Living World

For Students 3rd - 6th
This landing page includes learning modules on the following topics of: animals, plants, microorganisms, life cycles and reproductions, food chains, habits, humans and the environment, adaptation, inheritance, and evolution.
Handout
NOAA

Noaa: Space Environment Center: Aurora [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
The science and some myths behind the aurora, also known as the aurora borealis in the Northern Hemisphere and the aurora australis in the Southern Hemisphere are explained.
Unit Plan
Center for Educational Technologies

Cet: Exploring the Environment: Ice Caps and Sea Levels

For Students 9th - 10th
Students have just completed climate science fieldwork studying Earth's ice caps and sea levels. Analyze the data to present a report to the U.S. Panel on Global Climate Change.
Website
US Environmental Protection Agency

Epa: Extramural Research Science Topics

For Students 9th - 10th
This EPA website has links to many science topics about which the Environmental Protection Agency has concerns.
Website
University of Guelph

Canada's Polar Environments

For Students 9th - 10th
This site is a set of images along with volumes of information make this site a treasure trove. The site has satellite images.
Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Earth Science: Effects of Air Pollution on the Environment

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] How pollution damages the environment.
Article
American Institute of Biological Sciences

Action Bioscience: Issues in Environment

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from American Institute of Biological Sciences provides a collection of articles on current issues in environmental science and human impacts on the environment. Several articles available in Spanish.
Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Earth Science: Effects of Air Pollution on the Environment

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] How pollution damages the environment.
Lesson Plan
National Institutes of Health

Nih Curriculum Supplement Series: Chemicals, the Environment, and You

For Teachers 7th - 8th
This comprehensive site from the Office of Science Policy offers a teacher's guide, lesson plans, and student activities that discuss the presence of chemicals in the environment and how they might affect one's body.
Unit Plan
E-learning for Kids

E Learning for Kids: Norway Vikings: How Are Animals Adapted to Their Environment?

For Students 5th - 7th
Learn about the patterns of adaptation in animals in response to changes to their environment. These can be in relation to things such as diet, survival against predators, or a change of habitat.

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