Educational  Projects and Curriculum

Israel

• 21st Century Schoolhouse
  Study of environmental issues involving six schools from six different continents.

• Save Israel's Rivers
  Yarok - Save Israel's Rivers is a registered non-profit grassroots organization of volunteer israeli citizens devoted to protect Israel's rivers.

• Migrating Birds Know no Boundaries
  An educational project for following migrating birds using satellite telemetry

• Global Garden - Hands-On Discovery for a Sustainable Future
  A K-12 hands-on science program that transforms a school into a center for ecological living and learning.

• Desert and Desertification
  Study of hot and cold deserts involving sixty classes/groups from around the world.
  

  In Hebrew

• Acid Rain Acid Rain educational project (some explanations in English)
• Activities in Meterology Utilizing the Internet for enrichment and advanced study in the area of Meterology
  

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  • Other Environmental Sites in Israel
    • Society for the Protection of Nature in Israel
    • Adam Teva V'Din
      Israel Union for Environmental Defense

The World

• Air Quality Lesson Plans and Data
  Designed to provide educators who teach kindergarten through 12th grade with the background, activities and resources to teach the subject of air quality in the classroom.

• BioEsfera Project
  The First Spanish-Tropical Forest Biology-Archeology Workshop La Escuela Rice/The Rice School   Houston, TX

• Birds: Our Environmental Indicators
  This curriculum plan comes from Earth Generation's New York Educator's Guide, a print publication with 10 complete curriculum plans for junior high students investigating environmental issues relevant to the Great Lakes region. "Birds: Our Environmental Indicators" has been formatted for electronic dissemination by EE-Link. We have preserved the exact text but have added links within the document and to related items on the Internet.

• Blue Print Earth
  Allow our students to enhance their creative talents and use their imagination to design gadgets, invent articles, and picture social or political scenarios which will make planet Earth a better place to live for our future generations.

• CIRCEE
  

• Cornell's Solid Waste Activities
  Activities for grades K - 12

• Earth Council
  The Earth Council is an international non-governmental organization (NGO) created in 1992 as a direct result of the Earth Summit in Rio. Our mission is to support and empower people in building a more secure, equitable and sustainable future.
• Earth Savers
  EarthSavers is a World Wide Web Site that is currently being maintained by Jesse Barros, a 12-year-old from Honolulu, Hawaii, USA. The EarthSavers project began as a project by Jesse to fufill a class assignment, but it has grown to become more than that.

• Earth System Science Curriculum
  Student teams investigate global change topics from an Earth system science perspective. Students work with teachers and scientists to do original investigations and report their findings.

• Endangered Species in the National Parks
  What are endangered species and how we can save them

• Energy Education Resource Guide
  Resources for energy education

• Environmental Education and Environmental Reporting Network
  This project aims to combine environmental information and the World Wide Web (WWW) for educational purposes. Working with European partners in Spain, Italy, Germany and Greece who have signed the global environmental Talloires Declaration, we aim to create a multilingual WWW environmental educational resource.

• Explores Teacher's Resource Guide
  Weather Curriculum from NOAA

• Geographic Information Systems - GIS
  Geographic information systems (GIS) technology can be used for scientific investigations, resource management, and development planning. For example, a GIS might allow emergency planners to easily calculate emergency response times in the event of a natural disaster, or a GIS might be used to find wetlands that need protection from pollution.

• GLOBE Program
  Students and teachers from over 3500 schools in 55 countries are working with research scientists to learn more about our planet.

• GREEN - Global Rivers Environmental Education Network
  GREEN is an innovative, action-oriented approach to education, based on an interdisciplinary watershed education model. GREEN's mission is to improve education through a global network that promotes watershed sustainability. It is a resource to schools and communities that wish to study their watershed and work to improve their quality of life.

• The Learning Web
  A portion of the USGS web dedicated to K-12 education, exploration, and life-long learning.

• Liberty Tree Alliance
  The Liberty Tree Alliance is a national association of writers, scientists, and activists concerned with the preservation of the natural world. It was founded in 1995. We produce reports and other educational materials on the scientific and social dimensions of ecological sustainability. But our main work, and current preoccupation, is this Website.

• Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge Lesson Plans
  Elementary and Secondary Level Lesson Plans

• Pollution project Innocencia
  The idea is to save an imaginary country from ecological disaster. As you will see, if you go on reading, the inhabitants are totally unaware of pollution and problems connected to similar matters. Our commission is to turn Innocencia into an ecologically stable country.

• Rainforest Action Network - Kid's Action
  Learning about Rainforests and what kids can do

• Recommendations from the 1994 Caretakers International Conference, Aberdeen, 1994
  The main product of the conference was the Student Recommendations on what must be done to ensure a sustainable future for the Earth. The aim of the task of producing recommendations was to translate the many experiences of the conference into meaningful statements about Sustainability

• Sustainable Cities Program
  The Sustainable Cities Programme (SCP) is a joint facility of the United Nations Centre for Human Settlements (Habitat) and United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) for the development of a sustainable urban environment, founded on broad-based public participation. The programme has been in operation since 1990 and is now active in over 15 countries around the world.

• Testbed for Telecollaboration
  The Testbed for Telecollaboration, a three-year research project sponsored by the National Science Foundation, is investigating how to use the resources of the Internet for Network Science -- students at geographically distant sites working collaboratively to explore a shared problem. The Testbed is located at TERC in Cambridge, MA.

• Vanishing Species Lesson Plan
  Middle School - Curriculum for Texas - "One spirit, many forms"

• Wetlands Project
  To provide students with a chance to find out about Wetland environments throughout the world and discover the similarities and the differences that exist. To develop in students some understanding of the conservation issues that are being debated concerning the preservation of wetland environments

• Whales - A Thematic Web Unit
  Teacher resources, student activities, whale projects, internet resources

• Wildlife Bee
• YOung Reporters for the Environment

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