Classroom Resources

Students determine a list of criteria to use when deciding the fate of endangered species,...

Acting as store owners, students conduct a mini-census to identify their potential market and then...

Students play a board game about the fate of a rainforest where they must strategically...

Students act as an animal or plant trying to survive by collecting cards that represent...

Students research events in U.S. environmental history to create a class timeline and then write...

Students role-play being pandas in a bamboo forest where habitat fragmentation has occurred due to...

Students read and discuss an article about the current mass extinction of species, then calculate...

Students research an endangered species and create a poster that teaches others about the importance...

Students participate as a character in an interactive story that explores how everything in nature...

Food and Agriculture case study reading: How are pollinators critical to our food supply, and...

Forests background reading: The world's forests are important ecosystems in regulating climate and nurturing wildlife....

Elementary-level reading on wildlife habitats and biodiversity, and how we can help protect the balance...

Biodiversity background reading: This overview explores why biodiversity is important and what trends are threatening...

Oceans background reading: Take a closer look at the largest habitat on Earth and see...

Forests case study reading: The increasing demand for palm oil is taking a toll on...

Biodiversity case study reading: A profile of one of the world's most unusual and most...

Oceans case study reading: Overfishing of tuna to satiate fish and sushi eaters worldwide has...

Land use background reading: As population grows, we develop wild areas and arable land and...

Thematic unit for the high school classroom on biodiversity issues, endangered animals, and extinction rates....