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Congratulations! You have just stumbled upon an outstanding educational resource that provides all the tools, activities, and lesson plans necessary for you to start (or improve) your own environmental curriculum!
Though the lesson plans were designed for middle and high-school aged students, these curriculum supplements encourage students to engage in the material at the college level. What dangerous toxins lurk in products you use in your daily grooming routine? Have you calculated your carbon footprint lately? If so, how many planet Earths would be necessary if everyone lived like you? These questions not only interest environmentalists, health professionals and economists, but are relevant to teenagers. From recycling and sustainability, to greenhouse gas emissions and international environmental concerns, these creative and interactive activities show students how these issues pertain to their own lives. With lesson plans based on fashion, cosmetics, music, and sports, there are few topics left out of the downloadable documents, presentations, videos, experiments, and suggested activities available.
The “Site Navigation” key outlined below will help get you started in successfully taking advantage of all the exciting resources this website has to offer.
Tabs at the top of the web page provide an easy navigation from download-able lesson plans to activities and homework assignments! There are 3 units in total (listed below):
Unit 1: Environmental Health
Class 1: Introduction
Class 2: Hidden Toxins in Cosmetics
Class 3:High Fructose Corn Syrup (HCFS)
Unit 2: Energy
Class 4: Organic Vs. Inorganic
Class 5: Measuring Carbon Footprint
Class 6: Energy Cycles
Unit 3: Media Watch
Class 7: Midterm Review
Class 8: Sprawl
Class 9:Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
The tab labeled “Introduction” gives background information on why this web course was created and supports the initiative with scientific findings. The “Teacher’s Guide” tab outlines the fundamental goals of the course as well as key subject areas covered by course topics.
“Lesson Plans”Is a series of download-able PowerPoint slide presentations. Every lesson has a PowerPoint Presentation except for the High Fructose Corn Syrup and the Organic & Inorganic class topics. Once downloaded, you will notice that the PowerPoint Presentations come with a voice narration. This is meant to assist teachers in understanding the flow of information on the slides. The narration can then be removed and the PowerPoint slides are ready to teach in class!
The “Activities” tab provides activities (and some homework assignments) meant to complement the PowerPoint lesson plans. They are also organised by class topic title. For the HFCS and Organic & Inorganic the activities and the lesson plans are one and the same. Be sure to look at both the “Activities” and “Lesson Plans” tabs to get all the materials necessary for each respective class topic!
Lastly, the “Recommendations” tab provides key qualities that teachers should possess and know about in advance before embarking on teaching the course in their own classes. RSS news feeds from leading environmental newspapers and the New York Times can be found on the side tab as well.
