GREEN EDUCATION
This page provides 3 different news sources for students to glean from, dozens of links to green education sites for kids, parents, and teachers. Includes interactive sites for youngsters. These education links provide programs, games and activities to shape youth for the awareness needed to survive the future.
There are many curriculum ideas. Some of these are past due for updating, but still contain a great deal of useful information and ideas.
Special note to kids
Trust us, there's something here for you if you're patient enough to find it
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Ranger Rick | National Wildlife Federation for Kids -
Action for Nature | encourages young people to take personal action to better their environments and to foster love and respect for nature -
Web Rangers | National Park Service's site for kids of all ages -
From nesting Atlantic Puffins in Maine to Arizona's hungry hummingbirds, you can follow along live 24/7. -
Children of the Earth | An Adventure in Environmental Education -
The Greens | A site for kids about looking after the planet -
Wolf Ridge Environmental Learning Center | Learning, Just as Nature Intended -
National Geographic for Kids -
EEK! | Environmental Education for Kids -
NASA's Climate Kids has received a "Great Website for Kids" award in the science category from the American Libary Association. -
Big City Mountaineers | Mentoring Urban Youth Outdoors -
https://pbskids.org/games/nature/ -
Science Kids is the home of science & technology on the Internet for children around the world. Learn more about the amazing world of science by enjoying our fun science experiments, cool facts, online games, free activities, ideas, lesson plans, photos, quizzes, videos & science fair projects. -
Smokey Bear | Only you can prevent forest fires -
Earth Rangers | provides children with the opportunity to protect animals, to improve the environment and to make a difference -
Rustle The Leaf | Environmental Comics -
SCA | The Student Conservation Association | Trailblazers Wanted -
Nationall Institute of Environmental Health | Kids' Pages -
Ollie's World | Ollie Saves the Planet -
Our Climate Our Future is a project of the Alliance for Climate Education. ACE's mission is to educate young people on the science of climate change and empower them to take action. Since 2009, ACE has educated two million students and trained over 4,000 student leaders. -
Maggie's Earth Adventures | Free program for Grades 1-7 -
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Kids for Saving Earth provides educational materials, posters, and a highly acclaimed web site featuring environmental education curriculum and activities -
We are a community of over one million moms and dads united against air pollution – including the urgent crisis of our changing climate – to protect our children’s health. We fight for Justice in Every Breath -
We are women from every corner of the planet living climate action through everything we do. We need you. Will you join the movement? -
A growing group of sustainability-minded dads, who don't support a lot of BS, refuse to spoon-swallow media sound-bytes, like to offer their kids a sense of context and discernment, while teaching them how to think on their feet, roll-up their sleeves and get things done. -
There’s no such thing as a typical Mothers Out Front leader. We’re unified by the drive to protect all children from the climate crisis that impacts their health today and a livable climate for them tomorrow. -
Girls Scouts | Choose your adventure. Claim your spot today! -
Global Stewards | Eco tips for a healthy planet -
Boy Scouts of America -
Global Impact | Useful stats. . .watch the numbers change -
SITES FOR RECYCLING
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provides students, teachers, school administrators, local recycling coordinators and community activists with the tools that have been developed by their peers to achieve zero waste in their K-12 school systems. -
National Geographic Kids | Recycle Roundup -
Looking for ways to help recycle at your local playground? We have put together the following list of links and information about recycling, and what you can do to help. Feel free to save this page and share with others that can use this information -
Science Kids | Fun Science and Technology for Kids - New Zealand -
there is a good chance that you’ve heard some myths and rumors about how and why to recycle that are not completely true. -
Explore Recycle City to see how its people reduce waste, use less energy, and save money by doing simple things at home, at work, and in their neighborhoods -
try an eco-friendly way to get rid of things rather than throwing them in the trash. -
The Recycling Journey | I Want To Be Recycled -
america recycles day | November 15 -
Kids Against Plastic is committed to helping schools succeed in their efforts to fight single-use plastic and have created all of the resources a school (with pupils leading the way) needs. And they are all freely available to any school wishing to get involved. All schools have to do to get started is REGISTER.
KITS & CURRICULA
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Our Climate Our Future Our Climate Our Future is an award-winning video experience that educates young people on the science of climate change and empowers them to take action. -
Alliant Energy Kids | Lesson plans and interactive web-based activities -
Audubon Adventures | Engaging students grades 3 through 8 with nature -
A collection of passionate science and environmental educators devoted to improving the quality of outdoor science education. BEETLES (Better Environmental Education, Teaching, Learning & Expertise Sharing) is devoted to creating: versatile environmental education professional learning materials; student activities for use in the field; a collaborative, resource-sharing network of environmental educators; and additional resources for field instructors, leaders, and classroom teachers. All BEETLES resources are based on current research and understandings about how people learn, and tested by dozens of programs in diverse settings all over the country (and beyond!). Although BEETLES materials have been designed for residential outdoor science schools, they’ve been snatched up and used successfully in a wide variety of outdoor science education settings. -
CAMEL is a FREE, COMPREHENSIVE, INTERDISCIPLINARY, MULTI - MEDIA RESOURCE for educators, providing over 300 interdisciplinary topic areas and numerous resource types to give the educator the tools they need to teach CLIMATE CHANGE causes, consequences, solutions and actions. The educator is able to create courses, textbooks, administer exams & surveys, invite others and collaborate around teaching materials, strategies and assessment. CAMEL was created by the National Council for Science and the Environment with funding from the National Science Foundation. -
Captain Planet Foundation | supports high-quality, hands-on environmental stewardship projects that have enabled more than 1.1M youth across the U.S. and around the world make significant environmental improvements to their schools or communities -
Center for Environmental Education | Blueprint for a Green School -
Guidance in Teaching About Climate and Energy Climate and energy are complex topics, with rapidly developing science and technology. These pages offer easy-to-read explanations of science and policy, designed to step students through the key principles of climate and energy. Each page is illustrated with examples to bring these topics alive in your classroom. -
The mission of the Climate Change Education Partnership Alliance is to advance exemplary climate change education through research. -
About Us Earth Force Earth Force engages young people as active citizens who improve the environment and their communities now and in the future -
Earth Overshoot Day | marks the date when humanity’s demand for ecological resources and services in a given year exceeds what Earth can regenerate in that year -
WHAT IS YOUR Ecological Footprint? How many planets do we need if everybody lives like you? When is your personal Overshoot Day? -
Environmental Education Fund | Resources to educate, motivate & empower your community! -
Energy Kids | Hey Teachers! Use our website in your lessons -
EPA | Learning and teaching about the environment -
For Kids Only | NASA Space Place -
Today’s students need to understand how the complex and dynamic human and natural systems interact in order to make smart decisions. The Geo-Inquiry Process relies on using a geographic perspective, offering a unique lens to analyze space, place, and the interconnections between both the human and natural world. Using both a geographic perspective and the Geo-Inquiry Process students begin to connect complex components, see patterns, and make connections that change their communities. -
Green Learning Canada | The best web-based teaching tools for an evolving world. -
Green Map | Has engaged communities worldwide in mapping green living -
Green Schoolyards America is a national organization that expands and strengthens the green schoolyard movement and empowers Americans to become stewards of their school and neighborhood environments. Our programs support the living school ground movement, build relationships that help it succeed, and work to embed this perspective in our existing institutions and policy and regulatory frameworks. -
Leading the movement in creating green, healthy, sustainable K-12 schools -
According to National Geographic, species are alarmingly going extinct 1,000 times faster than previously recorded due to humans. With such a detrimental situation upon us, we must encourage individuals to pursue careers in wildlife biology in order to try to reduce the number of species that are quickly disappearing from our planet. -
The Imagination Factory | Kids at Art -
Investigate how weather and climate change are impacting our communities and environment. -
For us, our desire to make a positive change began when we began studying the UN Global Goals about a year ago. We were being homeschooled by our parents and, being children who have always cared for the environment and the world we live in, they thought it was a fitting topic to work on. The Global Goals consist of 17 world goals, brought together by the UN, which 193 world leaders have pledged to try and achieve by the year 2030. The goals consist of things like ending poverty, fighting inequality and tackling climate change. But one goal that piqued our interest was number 14: Life Below Water. It was through this that we came across the disastrous impacts that plastic pollution was having on our environment. -
Kids Do Ecology | Also in Spanish -
Kids Gardening | Helping Young Minds Grow -
110,000+ Canadian students and educators are taking hands-on action to help protect nature -
Maggie's
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kids.mongabay.com - helping children learn about the rainforest -
NAAEE | Promoting Excellence in Environmental Education -
National Environmental Education Foundation | Knowledge to Live By -
National Park Service | National Parks are America's largest classrooms -
One More Generation is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization dedicated to the preservation of endangered species and our environment. Bring the Plastic and Recycling Curriculum to Your School -
The Greatest Earthday Pages Ever! Countdown to 2020 - The 50th Anniversary of Earthday! Planetpals - The Best Source for Earthday Since 1998 -
Through story, music, interactive media and live theatre, we create inclusive, meaningful, and full-throttle experiences that children adore and that instill positive environmental values in their hearts – and in their actions. After experiencing our programs, kids feel energized, happy, and eager to put into practice what they have learned! -
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Project Learning Tree | Empowering Educators, Inspiring Youth -
We stand for everyone who gets excited at the thought of mixing chemicals in beakers, dreams of traveling beyond the moon and to the stars, dissects frogs and seeks to understand the body’s machinery, sketches the essentials for flight, builds models, crafts solutions, pilots experiments, tinkers, builds, learns, knows, and does The best learning starts outside of the conventional classroom. We’re trying to chart that space. -
The Science of Global Warming
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The Globe Program | A Worldwide Science and Education Program -
Think Earth Environmental Education Foundation | Curriculum units -
Trees for Tomorrow | Natural Resources Education Center -
Treetures | Because of me there grows a tree -
Daily AP news articles Lexile® leveled for K-12 Self-scoring quizzes customized by Lexile® level Critical thinking questions Student commenting Espanol AP articles Weekly lesson plans Weekly video -
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How much trash does America produce? We’ve looked at some gross data to calculate what one person produces in garbage per year by type of waste. See how many water bottles are tossed out by your average Joe, how many newspapers, how many cardboard boxes, and how much of other kinds of waste. See how much is thrown out and consider how we in America can cut back on waste!
"We're at war with nature. If we win it, we're lost." Hubert Reeves (1932- )