the Rainforest Alliance created the Rainforest Alliance Learning Site filled with free, standards-based lesson plans, stories (available in English, Spanish and Portuguese), presentations and much more.
This resource library of nature and environmental DVDs from around the globe also offers lesson plans and discussion guides.
This Web site, sponsored by the California Energy Commission, is devoted to energy education for kids and teachers and features general information about energy, games, science-project ideas, links to lesson plans, and more.
Kilowatt Ours, a project of Trust for the Future, sheds light on America's electricity generation, motivating and working with communities to save energy and use renewable power. Through public education, community partnerships, and policy advancement, Kilowatt Ours empowers consumers to create net-zero homes, schools, workplaces, and communities to improve environmental, human, and economic health.
Since 1971, the Yosemite Institute has provided award-winning residential outdoor-education programs in Yosemite National Park for K-12 school groups. Featuring experiential and inquiry-based experiences, its Field Science Education programs create rewarding life experiences for students and adults. Programs are customized for group needs and are aligned with state education standards.
This site from the WGBH Educational Foundation about sustainability and green living encourages kids to make informed choices and meaningful changes. Through animated episodic adventures, a blog, kids' mail, and regular updates, it explore green living, sustainability, ecology, environmental care, and social equity.
The term at-risk in this article refers to those students who are in danger of dropping out of school.
This Policy Brief examines how school-community partnerships can be used to help mitigate non-cognitive barriers to learning so students can achieve to high standards. It identifies the lessons being learned from such partnerships and offers practical policy recommendations for local, state, and federal policy makers.
Project-based learning is a terrific way to link your curriculum with real world events and applications of concepts that your students are learning.
Education systems around the world face formidable challenges that are taxing conventional strategies. Fresh approaches are needed to address persistent problems of the past and provide students with an education appropriate to the needs of a modern, information-based global economy. Now, after more than two decades of unfulfilled promises to revolutionize education, computer and communication technologies are finally able to offer opportunities to significantly improve teaching and learning.