Resource Library

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.

Learning Ocean Science through Ocean Exploration is a curriculum for teachers of Grades 6-12 that takes lesson plans developed for NOAA Voyages of Discovery and the Ocean Explorer website and presents them ina comprehensive scope and sequence through subject area categories thatcut across individual expeditions.

This curriculum guide from Data in the Classroom contains five activities for grades 6-8 that incorporate real data from NOAA. Students learn how to access and interpret sea surface height and tide data.

The Finding My Forest Curriculum provides educators hands-on activities for grades 3-8 to help students discover and relate to public forests and lands in their community. The guide includes four lessons to help students build a lifetime of active and thoughtful engagement with forests and other natural spaces.

ROOTS, or Restoring Our Own Trees Through Service, is an education initiative of Casey Trees that aims to provide teachers and students with methods to connect with their schoolyard environment. ROOTS utilizes familiar academic disciplines, such as math, reading, and science, to encourage teachers and students to use their backyard forest as their outdoor classroom.

This 10 module curriculum allows teachers to download (free of charge) social studies activities that are based upon archival materials and focus on environmental history. If Trees Could Talk helps students develop critical thinking skills in environmental issues within a social context. It helps produce better informed and more productive citizens.

This issue of Science Activities: Classroom Projects and Curriculum Ideas introduces educators to the importance of flowering plants that live underwater in marine and estuarine habitats. These seagrasses support human food sources, such as crabs and fish, as well as endangered animals, such as turtles and manatees.

The Fix a Leak Week learning resources are a set of activities designed for students in grades 3 through 5 to help them learn about water supplies and the importance of saving water.

Magnificent Groundwater Connection is a series of lesson plans surrounding groundwater from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Lesson plans are appropriate for students in grades 7-12 and can be adapted to meet science and math standards.

Engaging Students in Conservation: Protecting the Endangered Snow Leopard is an interdisciplinary 1-2 week unit developed by Facing the Future in collaboration with the Snow Leopard Trust. It includes five dynamic lessons and culminates with a service learning project. The unit is designed for 5-8th grade students in science and social studies.