Resource Library

Learn creative ways to integrate environmental issues into your classroom lessons. This Web site offers teacher resources, opportunities for field studies, training and funding. Resources are searchable by multiple fields including subject and level. Subjects span all disciplines, from art to mathematics.

Students use critical reading skills to gather facts about weather and climate change, conduct research about an assigned weather topic and create an interactive project/presentation that can be used to teach classmates about a weather topic.

The Ecology Center offers free environmental lesson plans for science, social studies and language arts teachers. These lesson plans cover topics including water, agriculture and nitrogen cycling.

Annie Dillard’s memoir about growing up in Pittsburgh in the 1950s offers a great opportunity for connecting English and the environment. Students will use the memoir to explore literary science writing how it differs from other writing.

This curriculum helps you teach English to students while introducing basic concepts about the environment and individual environmental responsibility. Each lesson plan has a language as well as an environmental objective. It also provides background on the environmental objective, a list of materials needed, a glossary of terms used in that lesson and a worksheet.

This resource offers numerous materials for teaching environmental topics to students learning English. Activities cover a variety of topics including recycling, climate change and air pollution. Materials range from beginner to advanced.

Students will evaluate two types of nature writing and explain the benefits of both by examining Burroughs’ and Muir’s essays from "Alaska: The Harriman Expedition, 1899." Students will also assess their hometown from the perspectives of an outsider and a naturalist.

Classroom Earth's "In the News" archive offers articles on a wide variety of topics.

This New York Times article explores how the surge in electricity-consuming gadgets, including cellphones, iPods and personal computers, has led to greater energy consumption. The article also discusses the role of the government, industry and trade organizations on energy usage.