Grades:
K
1
2
Students recognize that they belong to a global community that shares resources and interests. Learners define stewardship and exhibit responsibility by helping to care for our "small world."
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Unit: Earth Day for a Small World (2nd Grade)
Unit: Environment: Sustaining Our World (K-2)
Grades:
K
1
2
Learners define stewardship and exhibit responsibility by helping to care for our “small world.” They will respond to the story The Earth and I by Frank Asch by creating watercolor illustrations of themselves acting as environmental stewards. They will decide on a class service project...
Unit: Three 'Rs' to Environmental Stewardship (4th Grade)
Grades:
3
4
5
Students learn how reusing, reducing, and recycling can save resources and reduce pollution.
Unit: Earth Connections
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Grades:
3
4
5
The purpose of this lesson is for students to continue to explore the Native-American traditional beliefs of Mother Earth through contemporary Native American writers and to express this concept through Haiku and visual art.
Unit: Earth: The Source of Resources
Grades:
6
7
8
This lesson is intended to foster an understanding that natural resources require careful stewardship and that recycling is one of the ways we can guarantee that these resources will be able to continue to sustain life on "space station" Earth.
Unit: Our Class, Our Earth (Kindergarten)
Grades:
K
1
2
Students gain a feeling of ownership and responsibility for the care of the environment in their school and community.
Unit: Sharing and Caring Across Generations
Grades:
K
1
2
Students define stewardship and commit to reducing the amount of trash they contribute to the world. Students talk to older family members about trash and recycling memories to determine if this is an old problem or a new problem.
Unit: Johnny Be Good (1st Grade)
Grades:
K
1
2
Students will define philanthropy and identify ways in which Johnny Appleseed acted as a philanthropist through environmental stewardship. After identifying ways in which they personally act as philanthropists, they will raise awareness of philanthropy in the school and home.
Unit: The Four R's: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, RESPECT!
Grades:
K
1
2
The purpose of this unit is to bring together everything that we have learned into a philanthropic act. The goal is to have students realize that they can make a difference in our world by acting as a philanthropist by taking care of the Earth...
Unit: Community Clean-Up
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Grades:
K
1
2
3
4
5
Students learn about the goals of Earth Day and identify areas in town that need clean-up or planting. They plan a day of service.
Teach this one-period lesson plan and follow it with a simple and powerful service project ...