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Text Box: K-12 SUSTAINABILITY 
EDUCATION RESOURCES
Compiled by Susie Shields, Oklahoma Sierra Club 
Environmental Education Chair 2008
 

 

·         Center for A Sustainable Future: Realizing the promise of educational technology. http://www.concord.org/work/projects/csf.html

 

·         Earth Day Network teacher resources: http://ww2.earthday.net/resources

 

·         Ecological Footprint Resources:

2.    Our Ecological Footprint: Reducing Human Impact on the Earth, book by Williams E. Rees and Mathis Wackernagel (New Catalyst Bioregional Series)

3.    Creative Change: http://www.creativechange.net/content/footprint/index.htm

4.    Adventures with Bobbie Bigfoot (for kids): http://www.kidsfootprint.org/

5.    What is An Ecological Footprint (lesson): www.earthday.net/involved/teachers/bobbybigfoot/ES-MS_What_is_an_EF.pdf

6.    http://www.teachgreenpsych.com/tg_conservationpsychology.html

7.    Managing Your Energy Footprint: www.pspb.org/e21/media/Eco_footprint_v104_TN.pdf

8.    FILM: THE ECOLOGICAL FOOTPRINT: ACCOUNTING FOR A SMALL PLANET (2005) In this film, co-creator of the Ecological Footprint, Dr. Mathis Wackernagel, describes the tool and why we need to make an accounting of our individual impacts if we hope to secure a sustainable future.  See details on the Bullfrog Films website at http://bullfrogfilms.com/catalog/efoot.html.

9.    Ms. Newburn;s Math & Science Blog: http://msnewburn.wordpress.com/category/ecological-footprint/

10. http://www.unesco.org/education/tlsf/TLSF/theme_b/mod09/uncom09t05.htm

 

·         EE-Link (The National Council for Environmental Education and Training): Directory of classroom materials, project ideas, grants, and other resources. www.eelink.net

 

·         EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) A premier resource for information about the environment, and provides information about environmental hazards, maps of air quality, water and energy conservation, and much more: http://www.epa.gov/. Climate Change for Schools: http://www.epa.gov/climatechange/wycd/school.html   includes EPA Climate Change Kids Site http://epa.gov/climatechange/kids/index.html

 

·         Facing the Future:  Downloadable activities for grades challenge our way of thinking about our place on Earth, our relationships with each other, and our responsibility for the future.  www.facingthefuture.org/

 

·         Get Smart about Energy:  The U.S. Department of Energy provides over 250 inquiry & non-inquiry K-12 energy lessons divided by grade level and aligned with National Science Education Standards: www.eere.energy.gov/education/lessonplans/

 

·         Green Teacher: Wonderful quarterly magazine and five curriculum guides, both containing sustainability focused, interactive activities.  www.greenteacher.com/

     (For samples of activities, e-mail susie.shields@deq.state.ok.us.)

 

·         Learning for A Sustainable Future: http://www.lsf-lst.ca/en/home/

 

·         National Arbor Day Foundation: Find out about tree planting, identifying tree species, tree diseases, the backyard forest program, and what you can do to conserve trees and forests from the National Arbor Day Foundation: http://www.arborday.org/index.cfm.

 

·         Ounce of Prevention: NSTA Source Reduction Curriculum Guide for Middle School downloadable free at http://www.use-less-stuff.com/

 

·         POPSUSTAINABILITY: Uses popular culture such as film, fashion, music, sports and food to deliver a message that communicates to the most culturally influential sector of society today - young adults.   Pop Sustainability is pro-corporate, pro-consumer and, I repeat, pro-solution. Meaning, no matter who you are, you have a role to play - changing minds will change the planet!   www.popsustainability.org/

 

·         Population Connection:  People and the Planet--Lessons for a Sustainable Future (interdisciplinary lessons recommended for grades 5-10).  http://www.populationeducation.org/

 

·         Quest for Less:  EPA's Quest for Less provides hands-on lessons and activities, enrichment ideas, journal writing assignments, and other educational tools related to preventing and reducing trash for grades K-6. Free download at:. 

     http://www.epa.gov/epaoswer/education/quest/index.htm

 

·         Second Nature: Bibliographies and course overviews to help high school and university educators plan sustainability courses. http://www.secondnature.org/

 

·         Smart Consumers--An Educator's Guide to Exploring Consumer Issues and the Environment:  A middle school curriculum that is part of Be, Live, Buy Different--Make A Difference (interactive website for youth: www.ibuydifferent.org a joint initiative of World Wildlife Fund and the Center for a New American Dream.  Purchase for $29.95 at Acorn Naturalists: www.acornnaturalists.com/

 

·         Sustainability Education Center:  Information and summaries of curricula for high school. www.sustainabilityed.org/

 

·         Sustainability Education Toolkit: Downloadable on-line collection of articles, activities, and other resources for teachers. www.esdtoolkit.org

 

·         Teachers Domain (energy resources): http://www.teachersdomain.org/resources/psu06/energy21/sci/energybudget/index.html

 

·         World Factbook: https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/index.html

 

·         World Wildife Fund: http://ld.panda.org/index.cfm.

 

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