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The Coral Reef Teacher's Guide from Reef Relief, a nonprofit organization dedicated to preserving and protecting living coral reef ecosystems, provides lesson plans for grades K-12 on coral reefs. The lesson plans are spirally integrated with each grade level, building upon the previous one. The lesson plans can be adapted to meet educational standards in math, science, language arts, art, geography and social science.

Written in 1990 after the Exxon Valdez oil spill and updated in 2007, this curriculum provides materials for grades K-3, 4-6 and 7-12, as well as a list of several articles, books and other educational resources. The materials were developed by the Prince William Sound Science Center, the Prince William Sound Regional Citizen's Advisory Council and the Prince William Sound Community College. Lesson plans can be adapted to meet standards in math, science, social studies, language arts, economics, technology, engineering, consumer science, art, music and geography.

This curriculum unit from the Center for Health and Global Environmental Change at Harvard Medical School aims to begin cultivating food literacy among middle and upper elementary students. By the end of the unit, students should be able to explain how food supply chains for food systems depend on and impact the natural environment. Lesson plans are appopriate for grades 5-8 and align with National Science Standards and Thematic Strands in Social Studies.

These curricular materials and activities, developed by Water Partners International, are aligned with national education standards. Stand-alone lesson plans are part of larger units that cover a broad scope of subjects including English, science, and technology and social sciences like geography, civics and economics. Classroom activities cover everything from poetry seminars and vocabulary-building worksheets to science and math lessons about potable water availability.

These curricular materials and activities, developed by Water Partners International, are aligned with national education standards. Stand-alone lesson plans are part of larger units that cover a broad scope of subjects including English, science, and technology and social sciences like geography, civics and economics. Classroom activities cover everything from poetry seminars and vocabulary-building worksheets to science and math lessons about potable water availability.

This lesson was developed to highlight natural water purification as one of many services that healthy ecosystems provide for people. It covers types of water pollution, the watershed concept, and the problem of non-point source pollution. Students will research their own watershed and investigate natural water purification within it. The lesson is suitable for middle school. It is correlated to the Benchmarks for Science Literacy and was created by Science NetLinks, a program of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.