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Curriculum And Lesson Plans
3-D Atlas
Great lesson plans as well as information on maps, culture, the natural
world, climate and human impact
Access
Excellence Activities Exchange
provides an opportunity for teachers to exchange lesson plans on a variety
of topics.
Alliance
To Save Energy
A coalition of prominent business, government, environmental and consumer
leaders who promote the efficient and clean use of energy worldwide
to benefit consumers, the environment, economy and national security.
Includes high school lesson plans on Air Pollution: The Issue of Global
Warming, Energy: The Issue of Renewable Energy, Energy Efficient Homes,
Generate Your Own Hydropower, Measuring the Number of Calories in Sunlight
and To Conserve or Not to Conserve. The Green Schools Section
and Teacher Links are outstanding.
 The
California Regional Environmental Education Community (CREEC) Network
A n educational project whose mission is...To develop a communication
network which provides educators with access to High Quality environmental
education resources to enhance the environmental literacy of California
Students. Includes extensive regional and statewide directory
of resources. (follow links to Region 4 Resource Directory and
Organizations for SF Bay Area)
Environmental
education providers serving the Bay Area
Climate
Link
ClimateLink is a free information service about
climate change. If you register for Climate Link's Education and Outreach
service you'll receive free access to EPA's collection of educational
materials on global warming.
Earth
Day
Downloadable materials and tools from the national Earth Day organization's
web site
Global Response
A n international environmental education and letter writing network.
The Young Environmentalist's Action Teacher's Packet is designed to
bring current world events into the classroom.
The
Great Gallery On The World Wide Web
Numerous high quality images of the Earth, available in multiple languages,
on topics ranging from Polictical Maps, Views From Space, 3D Earth,
and many more.
The Jason Project
After discovering the wreck of the RMS Titanic, world-famous explorer
and oceanographer Dr. Robert Ballard received thousands of letters from
students around the world wanting to go with him on his next expedition.
In order to bring the thrill of discovery to millions of students worldwide,
Dr. Ballard founded the JASON Project, a year-round scientific expedition
designed to excite and engage students in science and technology and
to motivate and provide professional development for teachers. The JASON
Project has been praised as the leader in distance learning programs,
and continues to expand its reach by adding more components to the Project
experience. The JASON Project components include: Scientific Exploration
, Curriculum , Online Systems , Teacher Training , Live Broadcast
Navigator
for students, teachers, and parents
"Navigator is used by the New York Times newsroom as a starting
point for searching the Web, and what a starting point it is. First,
start with a comprehensive list of search engines. There's everything
from Yahoo to Northern Light. Dig a little deeper and you'll find government
databases for many federal, state, and international agencies. Beyond
that you'll find a plethora of reference sites that will help you browse
the Bible, search for addresses (both Web and street), peruse online
periodicals, and even visit the Elvis homepage. This is the mother lode
of research sites."
New
York Times
This is a part of the Navigator site above, worth mentioning as just
one example of this incredible resource for teachers (as well as students
and their parents).
"WISE"
(Web-based Inquiry Science Environment)
offers on-line inquiry projects in physical, earth, and life sciences
for students in grades 4-12. Guided by their teachers, students collaborate
to achieve deep understanding of scientific concepts. They design, debate,
and critique ideas on the Internet, in the classroom, and in the field.
To suport teachers, WISE provides lesson plans and assessments for all
projects, tools for on-line grading, and on-line discussion forums.
WISE also offers professional development resources for inquiry instruction.
WISE has been developed under grants from the National Science Foundation
and is free to educators. "Explore and join on-line:
Encarta
http://ericir.syr.edu/virtual/lessons.htm
Flinn
Scientific Inc
provides laboratory activities covering a vast array of topics.
Teacher and Science Fair Resources
Kid's
Science
Many science experiments and classroom ideas appropriate for various
ages. Experiments topics range from smog, identifying the number of
superfund sites in your neighborhood, to making various things such
volcanoes, fossils, radios and pinhole cameras. Highlighted links are
our earth under the environment topic from index page.
http://www.geobop.com/Symbols/Animals/Mammals/
Regional information about any state in the U.S. such as state flower,
soil or dance.
State Education and
Environment roundtable (SEER)
The Roundtable's work focuses on providing assistance and support to
state departments of education.
www.sciam.com/askanexpert/environment
Kids can post questions to be answered by an expert or they can browse
previously asked questions like "why do clouds float when they
have tons of water in them?"
Standards and Information Reference Sites
The California
Environmental Resources Evaluation System (CERES)
A library of information developed by the California Resources Agency
to facilitate access to a variety of electronic data describing California's
rich and diverse environments.
Environmental
Resources
A library of internet resources relating to biodiversity, ecology, earth
sciences, energy, environmental law, forestry, meteorology, oceanography,
sustainable development and more.
EPA
Curricula and Activities
Curricula and activities covering conservation, human health, water,
ecosystem, waste & recycling and air can be found.
Exploring the Environment,
Part of NASA's Classroom of the Future
Project Wet
The best source of water education information.
State Standards
from Calif. Department of Education
Click on State Board on the left-hand side of the page, at the State
Board page scroll down the left-hand column and you can click on either
the pre-publication versions for science and history/s or the Board
adopted final version of the ELA and math.
San
Francisco Unified School District Science Standards
Encyclopedia Britannica
online
Merriam Webster
online dictionary
Modern Language
Association
provides official guidelines on MLA documentation style.
Environmental
Education and Training Partnership (EETAP)
A national consortium of leading environmental education organizations
and educational institutions. It is funded by the US EPA as authorized
through the National Environmental Education Act. The Ohio State University
develops and hosts the EETAP Resource Library as part of its activities.
The goal of the EETAP Resource Libaray is to provide access to quality
resources and information through a virtual library, various publications,
and instructions on using EE databases to find information.
Project Learning Tree
An award winning interdisciplinary environmental education program for
educators working with students in K through 12. It is one of the most
widely used environmental education programs in the U.S. and abroad.
Over 500,000 educators have been trained to use PLT materials
EELink
A project of the North American Association of Environmental Educators.
EELink maintains a huge number of searchable databases including 3,000
reference records on environmental education materials, a listing of
6000 records that help users find classroom activities based on grade
level, subject area and other parameters. Subject areas are Air and
Climate, Consumption, Endangered Species, Energy and Transportation,
Forestry and Agriculture, Fresh Water, Marine, Multi-Cultural, Population,
Rainforests, Schoolyard Ecology, Solid Waste, Toxics and Risk,
Urban Environment, Wildlife and Biodiversity. These areas are found
under Environmental Information.
US Environmental
Protection Agency (EPA)
Environmental Education.
Project WILD
One of the most widely used conservation and environmental education
program used by educators of students in K through 12. The program emphasizes
wildlife. Since 1983, Project WILD, through a national network of state
coordinators and facilitators has provided materials, facilitators and
workshops focusing on hands on, activity-based, environmental education
to over 600,000 educators.
Visualizing
Earth
This Web site presents the findings of Visualizing Earth, a research
project funded by the National Science Foundation, with the goal of
better understanding how students learn to work with and make meaning
of images and visualizations. Based on this research, we developed recommendations
for teachers, curriculum developers and technology developers to enable
more effective use of these tools and resources in Earth science education.
World Resources
Institute
offers a teachers guide to world resources: Energy, Atmosphere and Climate
that can be downloaded free.
Yahoo: Electric
Vehicles
Energy/Alternative Fuel Vehicles/Electric Vehicles—Yahoo has a
number of pointers to sites of general information on electric vehicles
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