Resource Library

This guide provides a brief introduction to the 1990 Clean Air Act. The 1990 Clean Air Act is the most recent version of a law passed in 1970 to clean up air pollution. This simplified guide is the perfect way to introduce this law to students.

GardenWorks lets high school students with disabilities contribute to the school community in meaningful ways. Students design and build terraria, begin a window side habitat and observatory and donate plants to school areas and fundraisers.

Through the application of math concepts students examine the degree of biodiversity that exists in the everyday environment in order to develop an understanding of how scientists classify organisms. They also explore why biodiversity is important for living things.

This resource offers numerous materials for teaching environmental topics to students learning English. Activities cover a variety of topics including recycling, climate change and air pollution. Materials range from beginner to advanced.

Follow Earth Gauge outreach coordinator Ann Posegate as she embarks on a media expedition to Antarctica.

Students will evaluate two types of nature writing and explain the benefits of both by examining Burroughs’ and Muir’s essays from "Alaska: The Harriman Expedition, 1899." Students will also assess their hometown from the perspectives of an outsider and a naturalist.

Annie Dillard’s memoir about growing up in Pittsburgh in the 1950s offers a great opportunity for connecting English and the environment. Students will use the memoir to explore literary science writing how it differs from other writing.

This curriculum helps you teach English to students while introducing basic concepts about the environment and individual environmental responsibility. Each lesson plan has a language as well as an environmental objective. It also provides background on the environmental objective, a list of materials needed, a glossary of terms used in that lesson and a worksheet.

Students will examine the complexity of large-scale, slave-worked agricultural enterprises, the origins of rice production and the role it played in the economy of the antebellum South, and how before "cotton was king," the plantation system had already been producing crops such as rice, indigo and tobacco. Teaching materials include maps, readings, photos and drawings.

This resource contains lesson plans that integrate Native knowledge and scientific issues relating to the environment. Although there are multiple lessons plans, "Moose" and "Digging and Preparing Spruce Roots" are the most high school appropriate.