Language Arts

Powering Our Future is an interactive education program for grades 4-12 focused on energy use, electricity, renewable energy, and energy conservation.  The lessons in this program address Arizona Department of Education academic standards in science and social studies, as well as mathematics and language arts.  The site is designed for use in conjunction with Powering Our Future writt

The NEED Project provides an extensive library of standards-based curricula for teachers of grades K-12.

The Alliance to Save Energy’s Energy Hog program is an online computer activity that reveals "energy hogs" in our homes that can be eliminated, thus saving energy and protecting the environment.  The website also includes the Energy Hog Challenge, a set of classroom activities that can be downloaded for free.

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' j

In this lesson, students investigate the impacts of the reintroduction of animal species on the animals' natural habitats, the animals themselves and humans.  This lesson is best suited for grades 6-12 and adheres to McRel Academic Content Standards.