Classroom Earth

Classroom Earth (www.classroomearth.org) is an online resource designed to help high school teachers include environmental content into their daily lesson plans. Useful resources on the site include:

This month, we focus our attention to service-learning. Specifically in environmental education, service-learning models can encourage students to become passionate about a subject while helping out your community. Setting up a project requires creativity and motivation, and this month’s resources, success stories, professional development and other features on this site will hopefully give you ideas of how you can incorporate a service-learning project in your community.

Planet Connect has launched! This Web site for high school students is a way for them to interact, post stories, find grants and awards and learn about green jobs and colleges. Be sure to share this site with your students as a way for them to engage in dialogue about the environment.

EE Week 2009 is April 12 - 18th, and this year's theme is Be Water Wise!

National Environmental Education Week (EE Week) is the nation's largest organized environmental education event. read more ...

A field trip to a volcano starts this lesson.  Students explore how the two basic forces of geology — tectonic and gradational forces — interact to “shape” the actual physical landscape of the area. Students also learn the different types of rocks and the minute chemical changes caused by simple contact with the environment that slowly weather rocks into soil. read more ...

An AP Environmental Science class conducts an energy audit of the school. They decide to concentrate on reducing the electrical lighting and use more natural light to save money on the electric bills, reduce our carbon footprint, and help the environment.