Unit:
Grades:
6
7
8
The purpose of this lesson is to introduce learners to concepts related to trash removal, as well as to evaluate statistics regarding the production and removal of trash products.
Filter by subjects:
Filter by audience:
Filter by unit » issue area:
find a lesson
Unit: Global Garbage
Unit:
Grades:
6
7
8
To create empathy and help learners recognize some of the adverse effects of the careless actions of people.
Unit: One Person's Trash
Unit:
Grades:
6
7
8
The purpose of this lesson is to help learners understand what happens to trash that is generated.
Unit:
Grades:
6
7
8
The purpose of this lesson is to introduce learners to the different types of trash, the amounts that are being discarded and what could be done to alleviate trash in their own communities. ...
Unit: Earth Keepers
Unit:
Grades:
K
1
2
The purpose of this lesson is to guide learners to participate in caring for our Earth by engaging in activities of environmental stewardship.
Unit:
Grades:
K
1
2
This lesson introduces learners to our global community. Learners see how they depend on the earth and the earth depends on them. Since we share the earth with many other people, we have a responsibility (for the good of all) to be good...
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: Buckets of Bucks for World Hunger
Grades:
K
1
2
In this the lesson the students learn basic facts about nutrition. They design "Stop Hunger Buckets" for the purpose of collecting coins to donate to a nonprofit organization. They create posters to inform other students about hunger and the fundraising campaign. The students write journal ...
Unit: Our Air: The Quest for Quality
Grades:
6
7
8
This lesson will serve as the final learning piece, and the accumulated knowledge will be used to assist the learners in utilizing a role play scenario to come to a consensus plan of action that moves “their community” toward compliance with Air Quality Standards (AQI).This unit is also intended...
Unit: Philanthropy—A Day at the Beach
Grades:
3
4
5
The teacher will introduce the concept of philanthropy and lay the groundwork for the students to participate as philanthropists in the International Coastal Cleanup, a volunteer action for the common good.