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Activities for teachers and schools for their students
These activities and guides will encourage your students to live a "greener" lifestyle, at home and at school. By teaching children at a young age to be environmentally aware, you are building lifelong habits that could potentially make a dramatic difference in the future of the earth.
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Green Activities & Classroom Resources
Alternate uses for common Trash (Grade Levels - 2 to 10)
A table detailing the most common trash found on beaches during an international clean-up day is provided in this worksheet on improving the environment. Students think about alternative uses for the trash and plan and hold a clean-up event at their school. Download!
Trash & Climate Change (Grade Levels - 2 to 6)
Students learn the connection between trash and climate change with this printable packet of activities. This is a perfect supplement to your classroom unit on environmental studies and living a "greener" lifestyle! Download!
Buy nothing Day (Grade Levels - 6 to 12)
Celebrate Buy Nothing Day (each November) by abstaining from purchasing any product of any kind! Students will reflect upon the ideas of advertising, consumption, and waste, then they will write about their experiences buying nothing for a day. Download!
The Life History of "Stuff" (Grade Levels - 2 to 3)
By tracing the origins of everyday products -- the bikes they ride to school or their favorite sneakers -- students develop an understanding of the impact that the production, sale, and disposal of commonly used goods have on the environment.
Though no single lesson is likely to change students' consumption patterns completely, this one is sure to get them thinking about alternatives, like wearing shoes until they're outgrown or worn out, or donating still-usable items so they don't end up in a landfill prematurely.
From Farm to Table (Grade Levels - 4 to 6)
Students (and adults, too) know surprisingly little about the origin of the food they eat every day. In this lesson, students compile lists of frequently eaten foods and then take a trip to the local supermarket to research their origin by analyzing food displays or speaking with the grocer.
What are the consequences of eating grapes from Chile or corn from Mexico? Are there economic or health advantages to eating locally grown fruits and vegetables? Should grocers provide origin information for the produce they sell? These are just a few of the issues students can explore in this lesson. There's also ample opportunity to extend the lesson through action, by visiting a local farmers' market and talking with growers or starting their own vegetable garden at school.
Go Fish (Grade Levels - 2 to 3)
In this thirty-minute lesson for very young students, a simple bowl of goldfish crackers helps make concrete the concept of scarcity of resources. In the first part of the lesson, the bowl is passed around the room and students are allowed to take as many crackers as they'd like. In the second, each student receives an equal number of crackers.
The two scenarios serve as an excellent entrée into a discussion of uneven distribution of resources, as students discuss how it felt to get more (or fewer) fish than their classmates. The next step is to expand the discussion to resources in students' homes or in their community that everyone must share.
Water Walk (Grade Levels - 9 to 12)
Building on the concept of a watershed, students use a field trip to a local body of water (a stream at a local park, for example) to conduct a detailed assessment of the water and surrounding land and then document their findings by mapping and profiling the water and the neighboring area.
This hands-on science lesson teaches students how to take standardized measurements of water characteristics, integrates writing activities as students describe the characteristics of the local watershed, and provides an excellent introduction to issues of water quality.
