Language Arts

This engaging curriculum uses a mathematical lens to take children on an education-filled exploration of the garden. Dozens of hands-on activities hone math skills and promote inquiry, language arts and nutrition. Appropriate for grades K-8.

This book provides 20 ideas organized into four commonly recognized areas of environmental concern: Air, Energy, The Earth and Water. All ideas in Go Green @ School are ready to implement immediately and are supplemented with tools such as forms, visuals, reminder cards, contracts and instructional plans.

Alliance to Save Energy's Green Schools Program trains to use a diagnostic toolkit that assesses the energy usage in their school. The school building becomes a learning lab for students to apply science, math, and even language arts to solve a global challenge.

PULSE is an interdisciplinary curriculum. It is designed to improve life science literacy by providing lessons for core high school subjects that address environmental health and biomedical research. These topics are equally relevant and motivating within science classrooms and also in those of geography, language arts, government, world and American history, and mathematics classes.

Voyage From The Sun is a 20-lesson classroom science module designed to introduce 4th-9th grade students to the major ways in which energy is important in living systems. Voyage encourages students to explore the story of Earth's energy. Students examine how they use energy, where it comes from, and how human impact on natural habitats affects the natural energy flow. Voyage From The Sun supports science reform efforts by building bridges between biology, the physical sciences, math and language arts.

Students develop an integrated project through the comprehensive study of a species, a region, or both.  This long-term project requires students to explore fiction, history, cultural attitudes, and government.  The scientific data students can collect and analyze may include GIS information, climate and weather, satellite tracking/mapping, and observations from research scientists' journals.  This lesson is best suited for grades 5-9 and adheres to National Science Education Standards.

The purpose of this lesson is to educate students on endangered species and to provide them with basic knowledge of the causes of extinction.  This lesson is best suited for grades 5-9 and adheres to Alabama State Learning Standards.

This lesson provides students with an overview of some endangered species and the ways that human activities contribute to species endangerment.  This lesson is designed to provide students with a sense of optimism and to help them figure out ways they can help protect species.  Students will be asked to devise their own species protection plans.  This lesson is best suited for grades 3-5 and adheres to National Geography Education Standards.

In this lesson 2nd graders will gather information about an endangered species, the panda.  After making a research web as a class, the class will work together to organize and write a research report about Pandas.  This research report will then be posted on the website Project: TESAN - The Endangered Species and Nature, a collaborative project that posts and collects student work about endangered species from all over the world.  This lesson is best suited for Grade 2 and adheres to National Education Standards.

Songbirds at the Crossroads of Migration is a comprehensive curriculum guide that provides educators with information, hands-on lessons, and opportunities to involve students in learning about the importance of New Jersey's habitats and ecosystems as they relate to the needs of migratory songbirds. This lesson is best suited for grades 7-12 and adheres to New Jersey Core Curriculum Standards.