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EarthEcho International's Educator Resources are a collection of videos, lesson plans, and other materials designed to support high-quality classroom experiences. They are unique tools to assist educators as they equip young people to explore and protect their local natural resources. Many of the resources are designed to satisfy Common Core and Next Generation Science Standards. Don't see what you're looking for? Email us

Clue into Climate: A Digital Media-Based Curriculum Unit on Climate Change was created with input from San Francisco Bay Area teachers and advisors. The curriculum unit is comprised of four content strands, each of which includes 5-7 media resources related to the strand topic. Each strand also contains a strand guide and assessment, a background article and 4-5 lesson plans that provide information and activities to support the use of the media with students. Additionally, the curriculum unit provides a student workbook and a climate education resource guide.

This is from the national earth science teachers association, and has a bunch of resources, data, and ways to teach the earth sciences. (Including weather, climate, and geology)

Resource to get US climographs

This problem-based case study guides students through a systematic exploration of the scientific issues surrounding the application and development of hydrogen fuel technology. A PowerPoint presentation introduces a New York Times article about the impact of our abundant natural gas resources on the cost of hydrogen fuel production. The article includes an Energy Department estimate that places the gasoline-cost equivalent of hydrogen fuel production, compression, and distribution at less than $4 per gallon, making it a viable option for the transportation sector. Students are then given primary literature articles and a worksheet to help them examine (1) the benefits and drawbacks of using hydrogen as a fuel in automobiles and trucks, (2) the current technological/engineering limitations of using hydrogen fuel, and (3) whether the pursuit of developing large-scale use of hydrogen-powered cars is the right direction for the country. Originally written for a second semester/second quarter general chemistry course, the case study is designed to illustrate the direct application of chemical thermodynamics and gas laws to the production and distribution of renewable fuels.  

Biology lesson plans, worksheets, tutorials, and resources.

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This is a great visual for my students on the absence of water in parts of the world. Tremendous discussion following this short clip. In a water rich area, this video clip made a tremendous impact on my students views of water resources.

Smithsonian museum resources for education

The California Regional Environmental Education Community (CREEC), administered by the California Department of Education, is a communication network supporting the environmental literacy of California's students by providing teachers with access to high quality environmental education resources.

See how competition over resources effects population

Get a snapshot of the impact of your daily lifestyle. Compare how much water is used to make a variety of products so that you can choose to reduce your water footprint. For those that want to find out more, the green, blue and grey water footprint shows the source of water consumed and the volume of fresh water required for assimilation of pollutants.

Use gapminder.org to play with data and see some REALLY great graphs. Warning it can be addictive! This information was shared with Climate Change Lessons from Judi Kusnick at CSU, Sacramento. If you google Judi's name, all of her workshops are available online with resources for the lessons she has shared.

The first embedded document is the summary of an ecological footprint assessment my 7th grade students a few years back.  There is also lots of IB Biology resources (mostly from Steven Taylor at i-biology.net)

Primarily geared towards IB Biology, but this website is incredible.  There are great links down the right side of his page.  If you mouse over the options tab you'll see Option G:  Ecology & Conservation.  He's got a ton of excellent resources there.   I would not have survived teaching IB Biology without his stuff.  

This school does some amazing work.  Lots of resources and ideas for greening your school.