Language Arts

Encourage students to investigate environmental themes and issues in their reading and writing. Students can: create persuasive essays and presentations to present their viewpoints on environmental issues, analyze environmental articles for clarity, factual content, emotional appeal or accuracy, write nature-inspired poetry, read and discuss “green-themed” novels. Use the search function to the right to explore other ways to incorporate environmental themes into language arts lessons.

Promoting Understanding and Learning for Society and Environmental Health

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

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.

Focus on an Endangered Species

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.

Endangered Species: What are they and how can we help them?

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.

People and Endangered Species

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.

Endangered Animals Collaborative Reports

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

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.

Birds of a Feather

This lesson is part of an interdisciplinary unit on birds which contains math/science and language arts components. In the math/science wing, students will prepare frequency tables and construct a circle graph of the species of birds observed at bird feeders. This lesson is best suited for grade 7, and adheres to North Carolina State English Language Arts and Mathematics Standards.

Bird Up

Students are introduced to using websites as resources for science content information. Specifically, in cooperative groups or pairs, students find information on a bird of their choice by accessing online resources such as dictionaries, encyclopedias, research databases, and bird association and organization websites. They select, record, and organize this information into a bird profile and then present it to their peers.

Leapin' Lizards

Students compare and contrast reptiles and amphibians. As a class, students discuss the yellow-spotted lizard mentioned in the novel Holes. Using internet resources, students research facts about reptiles and amphibians and document their findings on a provided worksheet. This lesson is best suited for grades 5-8 and adheres to National Technology, Science and Language Arts Standards.

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