George B. Brain Education Library - Environmental Resources for Educators

Classroom Activity Resources

Alternative Energy Sources A lab activity that uses marshmallows to investigate simple solar cookers (made, e.g., from umbrellas).

Athena Earth & Space Science for k-12

Branching Out
The North Carolina Forest Stewardship Activity Guide.

Brucie's Buddies The web site is a fun safe way for your kids to learn more about the environment on-line through activities, cartoons, contributions, and a direct e-mail line to Bruce C Gull himself.

California Environmental Resources Evaluation System (CERES) Offers an on-line transdisciplinary Environmental Education Web.

Canadian Network of Toxicology Centres Offers an educator's resource guide entitled, Toxicology - An Environmental Education Unit for Secondary Schools and Communities which contains a 7-lesson study guide with teacher information and student worksheets as well as a teacher's guide, and other resource materials.

Celebrate Earth Day with Dr. Suess's Lorax!

Children's Ozone Art Artwork from the 1998 "Healing the Ozone Layer with Small Brushes" United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) Children's Painting Competition. Individual pieces can be sent as e-postcards.

Cornell University's: Composting in School
EM*Power
A 4-H curriculum in waste management and environmental restoration for youth in grades six through nine.

Discovery Channel School

The Earth Balloon Complete K-12 curriculum featuring lesson plans on: Natural Environments, Rain Forests, Man's Impact on the Earth - The Aral Sea, Population Clusters, etc.

Earth Day Groceries Project

Earth Day Network This site contains links to 20 other volunteer-maintained Earth Day '97 sites.

Earth Education Partnership Program (EEPP) An international effort to bring issues of environmentally sustainable development into high school classrooms.

Earth System Science Educational Resources A compilation of sites providing on-line learning activites, interactive environmental data, and resources for teachers and students. (Click on the "Education" link from the left hand tool bar.)

Educating Young People About Water Designed to help educators develop a community-based, youth water education program that targets youth and links key community members in partnerships--all working toward common water education goals.

EELink

Elephants of Sri Lanka A book that documents the unique role of elephants in the ancient as well as the modern culture of Sri Lanka.

Energy and the Environment Including an Energy and the Environment WEB Class, links to many Internet resources on energy and the ozone layer. From the Electronic Universe Project.

Energy Quest Energy activities and from the California Energy Commission. Includes energy science projects.

English Naturally English Country Schools's unique program encourages appreciation of the natural environment through the study of English.

Environmental Education Index

EPA's RECYCLE CITY!
Exploring Recycle City is an easy way to learn about the three R's -- reduce, reuse and recycle. Designed primarily for middle-school students, it's a lively point-and-click journey for all ages that demonstrates how individuals, businesses and communities can work together to cut waste.

Exploring The Environment From Nasa's Classroom of the Future

Farm*A*Syst/Home*A*Syst This voluntary program is a partnership between government and private business that enables individuals to prevent pollution on local farms, ranches, and homes using confidential environmental assessments.

From the Ground Up An on-line teacher's guide with five lessons: The History of Agriculture and a Description of Sustainable Development; Soil; Agriculture and Chemicals; The Real Cost of Food; and Everything's Connected.

Generation Earth Is an excellent resource for use in the classroom in planning water education programs and voicing community water education needs.

Give Water a Hand Is an excellent resource for use in the classroom in planning water education programs and voicing community water education needs.

Global SchoolNet Project Registry Lists collaborative classroom projects by the month that they begin. Also has a a form for registering your own project.

Good Green Fun! Explore tropical and temperate forests of the world through Internet searching activities and the musical adventures of Good Green Fun!

How to do an Earth Day on Your Block

The Imagination Factory This is an excellent, award winning, innovative site, which promotes recycling through art. Visit this site and meet Trashasaurus Rex

JASON Project. During the JASON VII expedition, researchers, students, and teachers will join Dr. Robert Ballard in an investigation of several interconnected shallow-water habitats in Southern Florida-the Everglades, Florida Bay, Florida Keys, the Florida reef tract, and the relic reefs on Pourtals Terrace."

John Muir Day Study Guide
K-12 teacher's guide with student materials for celebrating Muir's lifetime of conservation.

Kids Renew America Over 46 environmental programs organized and run by Kids!

KidZone Information for students and activities for the classroom from the National Wildlife Federation

Lesson Plans & Teaching Strategies for Social Studies This is an excellent collection of lesson plans from ERIC, Big Sky and Houghton Mifflin, to name just a few, where social studies are used to increase the understanding of environmental issues, multicultural awareness, local community issues, personal impacts on government and geography.

NASA Education Program

National Envirothon Designed as a way to teach kids about environmental education the best teams from 40 states and two Canadian provinces come together during the summer to compete with one another in five subjects: Wildlife, Forestry, Soil, Aquatics, and Current Environmental Issues.

NOAA's Earth Day '97 Homepage National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's research laboratories' focus for Earth Day 1997 is the connection between people and the environment. NOAA labs have put together a web site that shows key areas of research that relate to the themes of Earth Day and how human activity can affect natural systems.

Ocean Planet Instructional Materials Activities, stories, and facts about oceans, compiled as part of the Ocean Planet exhibition of the Smithsonian Institution.

Pacific Whales Education

Rainforest Action Network Kid's Corner Information about rainforest flora and fauna, including lesson plan ideas and neat images of amphibians, birds, and mammals.

Renew America A non-profit organization founded in 1989, which helps inspire communities and businesses to meet today's environmental challenges.

Sea World Teacher's Guides Select activities from the Teacher's Guide, dealing with whales and dolphins, walrus, manatees, and gorillas.

The Invention and Design Project. A project to facilitate a better understanding of the processes involved in invention and design through extended case-studies.

The Sun's Joules A multimedia encyclopedia on renewable energy and the environment. This link is for the Internet demo version.

Water Science for Schools The Water Resources Department of the U.S. Geological Survey designed this site to help students and teachers learn more about water and water usage.

WhaleNet Check out our WhaleNet Information Packet for teachers.

Whales--A Thematic Web Unit with a bibliography, homework ideas, book reviews, project ideas, and student activities in social studies, research, math, language arts, etc. and more.

WWF Global Network Click here to find out more about the living planet, forests for life, climate change and endangered seas campaigns.

Young Environmentalists' Actions (YEA) Action-oriented newsletters designed so that elementary school students, parents and teachers can do their part to protect the Earth.

Youth for Environmental Service (YES) YES is a new organization, but in the last two years has spoken to over 35,000 students and gotten over 10,000 involved in environmental community service projects.

Alternative Energy Sources	A lab activity that uses marshmallows to investigate simple solar cookers (made, e.g., from umbrellas).
Athena Earth & Space Science for k-12
Branching Out	The North Carolina Forest Stewardship Activity Guide.
Brucie's Buddies	The web site is a fun safe way for your kids to learn more about the environment on-line through activities, cartoons, contributions, and a direct e-mail line to Bruce C Gull himself.
California Environmental Resources Evaluation System (CERES)	Offers an on-line transdisciplinary Environmental Education Web.
Canadian Network of Toxicology Centres	Offers an educator's resource guide entitled, Toxicology - An Environmental Education Unit for Secondary Schools and Communities which contains a 7-lesson study guide with teacher information and student worksheets as well as a teacher's guide, and other resource materials.
Celebrate Earth Day with Dr. Suess's Lorax!
Children's Ozone Art	Artwork from the 1998 "Healing the Ozone Layer with Small Brushes" United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) Children's Painting Competition. Individual pieces can be sent as e-postcards.
Cornell University's: Composting in School *EMPower**	A 4-H curriculum in waste management and environmental restoration for youth in grades six through nine.
Discovery Channel School
The Earth Balloon	Complete K-12 curriculum featuring lesson plans on: Natural Environments, Rain Forests, Man's Impact on the Earth - The Aral Sea, Population Clusters, etc.
Earth Day Groceries Project
Earth Day Network	This site contains links to 20 other volunteer-maintained Earth Day '97 sites.
Earth Education Partnership Program (EEPP)	An international effort to bring issues of environmentally sustainable development into high school classrooms.
Earth System Science Educational Resources	A compilation of sites providing on-line learning activites, interactive environmental data, and resources for teachers and students. (Click on the "Education" link from the left hand tool bar.)
Educating Young People About Water	Designed to help educators develop a community-based, youth water education program that targets youth and links key community members in partnerships--all working toward common water education goals.
EELink
Elephants of Sri Lanka	A book that documents the unique role of elephants in the ancient as well as the modern culture of Sri Lanka.
Energy and the Environment	Including an Energy and the Environment WEB Class, links to many Internet resources on energy and the ozone layer. From the Electronic Universe Project.
Energy Quest	Energy activities and from the California Energy Commission. Includes energy science projects.
English Naturally	English Country Schools's unique program encourages appreciation of the natural environment through the study of English.
Environmental Education Index
EPA's RECYCLE CITY!	Exploring Recycle City is an easy way to learn about the three R's -- reduce, reuse and recycle. Designed primarily for middle-school students, it's a lively point-and-click journey for all ages that demonstrates how individuals, businesses and communities can work together to cut waste.
Exploring The Environment	From Nasa's Classroom of the Future
*FarmASyst/HomeASyst*	This voluntary program is a partnership between government and private business that enables individuals to prevent pollution on local farms, ranches, and homes using confidential environmental assessments.
From the Ground Up	An on-line teacher's guide with five lessons: The History of Agriculture and a Description of Sustainable Development; Soil; Agriculture and Chemicals; The Real Cost of Food; and Everything's Connected.
Generation Earth	Is an excellent resource for use in the classroom in planning water education programs and voicing community water education needs.
Give Water a Hand	Is an excellent resource for use in the classroom in planning water education programs and voicing community water education needs.
Global SchoolNet Project Registry	Lists collaborative classroom projects by the month that they begin. Also has a a form for registering your own project.
Good Green Fun!	Explore tropical and temperate forests of the world through Internet searching activities and the musical adventures of Good Green Fun!
How to do an Earth Day on Your Block
The Imagination Factory	This is an excellent, award winning, innovative site, which promotes recycling through art. Visit this site and meet Trashasaurus Rex
JASON Project.	During the JASON VII expedition, researchers, students, and teachers will join Dr. Robert Ballard in an investigation of several interconnected shallow-water habitats in Southern Florida-the Everglades, Florida Bay, Florida Keys, the Florida reef tract, and the relic reefs on Pourtals Terrace."
John Muir Day Study Guide	K-12 teacher's guide with student materials for celebrating Muir's lifetime of conservation.

Kids Renew America	Over 46 environmental programs organized and run by Kids!
KidZone	Information for students and activities for the classroom from the National Wildlife Federation
Lesson Plans & Teaching Strategies for Social Studies	This is an excellent collection of lesson plans from ERIC, Big Sky and Houghton Mifflin, to name just a few, where social studies are used to increase the understanding of environmental issues, multicultural awareness, local community issues, personal impacts on government and geography.
NASA Education Program
National Envirothon	Designed as a way to teach kids about environmental education the best teams from 40 states and two Canadian provinces come together during the summer to compete with one another in five subjects: Wildlife, Forestry, Soil, Aquatics, and Current Environmental Issues.
NOAA's Earth Day '97 Homepage	National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's research laboratories' focus for Earth Day 1997 is the connection between people and the environment. NOAA labs have put together a web site that shows key areas of research that relate to the themes of Earth Day and how human activity can affect natural systems.
Ocean Planet Instructional Materials	Activities, stories, and facts about oceans, compiled as part of the Ocean Planet exhibition of the Smithsonian Institution.
Pacific Whales Education

Rainforest Action Network Kid's Corner	Information about rainforest flora and fauna, including lesson plan ideas and neat images of amphibians, birds, and mammals.
Renew America	A non-profit organization founded in 1989, which helps inspire communities and businesses to meet today's environmental challenges.
Sea World Teacher's Guides	Select activities from the Teacher's Guide, dealing with whales and dolphins, walrus, manatees, and gorillas.
The Invention and Design Project.	A project to facilitate a better understanding of the processes involved in invention and design through extended case-studies.
The Sun's Joules	A multimedia encyclopedia on renewable energy and the environment. This link is for the Internet demo version.
Water Science for Schools	The Water Resources Department of the U.S. Geological Survey designed this site to help students and teachers learn more about water and water usage.
WhaleNet	Check out our WhaleNet Information Packet for teachers.
Whales--A Thematic Web Unit	with a bibliography, homework ideas, book reviews, project ideas, and student activities in social studies, research, math, language arts, etc. and more.
WWF Global Network	Click here to find out more about the living planet, forests for life, climate change and endangered seas campaigns.
Young Environmentalists' Actions (YEA)	Action-oriented newsletters designed so that elementary school students, parents and teachers can do their part to protect the Earth.
Youth for Environmental Service (YES)	YES is a new organization, but in the last two years has spoken to over 35,000 students and gotten over 10,000 involved in environmental community service projects.