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This cultural workbook is designed for easy adaptation by teachers in grades 6 through 12.
Kids collect insects, keep them for a day or two, observe them, and release them.
Learn about and try to recognize an individual tree through smelling, touching, and listening.
Use a timed sorting activity and review to explore different connections to water.
Through a simulation game, students will experience what it is like to confront and deal with a culture highly different from their own.
This activity engages students to illustrate the relationships of how plant and animal life are connected in an ecosystem
Divide learners into small groups to debate and discuss environmental dilemmas and possible plans of action.
Students will discover that cultural norms heavily influence how we communicate.
Don't judge your water by its cover.
Exchange information about endangered and extinct species through mini case studies.
Match and discuss environmental issues and possible responses in small groups.
Assume a new identity and occupation to explore how food insecurity effects populations in different ways.
Learn about the benefits of sorting materials to be reused, recycled, or thrown away.
Learn how to make natural alternatives to chemical pesticides.
This lesson plan engages students to illustrate the vast diversity of adaptations that animals use for survival, delineating how and why form fits function.
This lesson plan makes use of popcorn to help students understand and explore the concepts of renewable and nonrenewable resources and their use over time.
Go out into the community to collect and sort recyclable materials.
Sort your garbage on a timeline to better understand decomposition.
This activity explores the biodiversity that is alive around our schools and compares this with the biodiversity found in different types of world ecosystems.
Act out the life cycle of a tree as a group.
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