Foreign Languages
- Incorporate environmental issues into culture studies during foreign language classes. Help your students: investigate the flora and fauna of another country, understand another culture’s attitude toward the environment, explore another country’s approach to environmental issues, and read environmentally-focused foreign language articles and magazines. Use the search function to the right to browse resources for bringing environmental education into foreign language studies.
- Success StoryPosted byAnonymousonSeptember 16, 2008
Every year for the past six years, the 2,300 students at La Mirada High School in Los Angeles County, Calif. celebrate an energy-themed National Environmental Education Week and Earth Day event. Science students display renewable energy and environmental projects while state agencies, including the California Coastal Commission. The school choir and jazz band perform and students play a variety of eco-themed games.La Mirada Spanish teacher Norma Williamson coordinates the event. She is passionate about environmental education and uses it to help her students understand the environment through hands-on learning.
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INAKADATE, Japan — Nearly two decades ago, Koichi Hanada, a clerk in the village hall, received an unusual request from his superior: find a way to bring tourists to this small community in rural northern Japan, which has rice paddies and apple orchards, but not much else.
Link:Read it here. - ResourcePosted byAnonymousonAugust 25, 2009
This lesson plan is designed for third to fourth year Spanish students, but can be adjusted to other language levels. Upon completion, students will be able to discuss recycling concepts, such as why recycling is important, and identify at least 20 recyclables and state how to dispose of them, all in Spanish.
- Success StoryPosted byAnonymousonSeptember 16, 2008Every year for the past six years, the 2,300 students at La Mirada High School in Los Angeles County, Calif. celebrate an energy-themed National Environmental Education Week and Earth Day event. Science students display renewable energy and environmental projects while state agencies, including the California Coastal Commission. The school choir and jazz band perform and students play a variety of eco-themed games.
La Mirada Spanish teacher Norma Williamson coordinates the event. She is passionate about environmental education and uses it to help her students understand the environment through hands-on learning.
