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Students design, create, and install a lasting piece of the school garden.  Through creating a pond habitat high school students are challenged to build a sustainable ecosystem from start to finish.  The lesson includes instructions for installation and information regarding the many forms of life found in a pond habitat and their relationship to one another.

This complete online curriculum provides lessons, step by step instructions to set up a working indoor hydroponics system, planting advice, general hydroponics knowledge, nutrient information to meet the needs of plants, a history of hydroponics, classroom stories, and resources and suppliers. Lessons can be adapted for all grade levels.

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.

The NCSE-NASA Interdisciplinary Climate Change Education Team is developing a curricular package on climate change based on a University of California Davis course taught by Professor Arnold Bloom. The curriculum includes modules that cover a wide range of topics relevant to climate change. Data produced by NASA is used to create data-driven modules focusing on ice core and recent climate change observations.

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.

To become familiar with endangered species' habitats and characteristics, students design, present, and evaluate a visual presentation (kiosk or website) for a specific endangered species.  This lesson is designed for grade 4 and adheres to Florida Sunshine State Standards.