John J. Water, a freelance writer based in Silicon Valley, informs his readers about teaching green through the wealth of online resource presently available. Water gives a handful of examples and briefly describes each.
The first, Classroom Earth (classroomearth.org), is a site that was created by the National Education Foundation in partnership with The Weather Channel. This sites’ objective is to strengthen environmental awareness and education in high school classrooms across the nation.
The next site, A Walk in the Woods (urbanext.illinois.edu/woods) is aimed at students in grades 3 through 5 who live in an urban setting and rarely have the ability explore nature. This site takes student on a virtual walk in the woods.
EEK!-Environmental Education for Kids (dnr.wi.gov/eek) is an electronic magazine for kid that covers a ranges of topics that is aimed at students in grades 4 to 8. This particular websites also has great feature directed at teachers.
The Ecological Footprint Quiz (myfootpring.org), created by the Santa Fe, NM-based Center for Sustainable Economy, is an online quiz that gets kids thinking about their ecological footprint.
Then there is, “one of the oldest environmental science-themed educational games”, PowerUp (powerupthegame.org). This website provide not only the teachers’ guide and lesson plans, but parents’ as well.
Lastly, Waters, talks about The US Environmental Protection Agency Teaching Center (epa.gov/teachers) site. This is a teacher-forcused site that offers an abundance of lesson plans and classroom activities centered on environmental topics.
Do you see yourself using any of the sites Waters spoke of in his article?
Yes. I was very interested in the several of them. I would love to have my students take The Ecological Footprint Quiz. I think it would be a great way for students to see how they personally impact the Earth.
At what age were you exposed to the idea of environmental issues? Was it in school or something you learned at home?
I was exposed to environmental issue early one in elementary school. It was also a topic talked about, in detail, in my household.
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