Through cooperative learning activities and a class demonstration, students work through problems to visualize large...

Students play a game that simulates a cap and trade system, and analyze its successes...

Students work in small groups to determine the main environmental concerns during given periods of...

Students mimic the spread of disease by exchanging liquids in test tubes and then graph...

Students "catch" pollution (particulate matter) on prepared cards to see the environmental and health-related consequences...

Acting as countries in a simulation game, students discuss how resources are inequitably distributed throughout...

Students experience the changing pace of population growth by simulating the Earth’s population growth over...

Students find articles about air pollution issues and use the information to create a class...

As the instructor reads a story about the history of the world’s oceans, students act...

Solid waste case study reading: A profile of a town in Ghana that is the...

Food and Hunger Case Study Reading: A profile of some innovative urban gardening projects -...

Food and hunger background reading: Feeding an expanding global population and battling malnutrition among the...

Air pollution background reading: An overview of how fossil fuel combustion creates unhealthful levels of...

Energy case study reading: A profile of how Germany came to lead the world in...

Our global family background reading: There are vast differences in wealth, energy use, health, and...

An elementary-level reading on the creation and disposal of solid waste.

An elementary-level reading that addresses renewable and non-renewable resources.

An elementary-level reading that discusses population growth trends for wildlife and people.

Thematic unit for the high school classroom on food issues and agriculture. Includes teaching materials...

Thematic unit for the high school classroom forest land use and protection, in light of...

Thematic unit for the high school classroom covers global health from a societal perspective. Includes...

Thematic unit for the middle school classroom covers population growth from 1 C.E. to present...

Thematic unit for the middle school classroom covers how humans have manipulated land for our...

This is a Spanish/English lesson packet for K - 5th grade teachers. It is designed...

This is a Spanish/English lesson packet for 6th - 12th grade teachers. It is designed...

Thematic unit for the high school classroom on ocean health. Includes teaching materials on current...

Thematic unit for the middle school classroom on challenges impacting the well-being and happiness of...

In a role-playing simulation, students act as species in a habitat trying to survive by...

Students estimate a fish population (using goldfish crackers on a flat surface) by sampling.

Students develop an index of the ten factors they identify as most important to a...

Students read and discuss a short conversation between two Ethiopian girls, watch two photo essays...

Students use the engineering design process to create and test prototypes for cleaning up oil...

Through riddles, an art project, and small group problem solving, students gain an appreciation for...

After matching everyday products to their rock or mineral sources, students “mine” chocolate chip cookies...

Students gain an understanding of carrying capacity when they act as predatory animals in a...

Students participate in a “push/pull” simulation to identify reasons people migrate from one place to...

Infographic compares the number of Earths needed to provide for humans' current consumption over time....

Bar graph compares the energy mix - percentage of energy from fossil fuels vs. renewables...

Infographics shows that 1 person in the U.S. consumes as much energy as 2 Germans,...

Line graphs display forest loss in Indonesia and the Brazilian Amazon, showing the percentage of...

Infographic shows the United Nation's population projections through 2100 in ten year increments. Three future...

Line graphs show the number of people living in rural areas and urban areas from...

Infographics show the change in meat and paper/paperboard consumption per person from 1960 to 2016....

Line graphs shows the increasing percentage of the population experiencing water scarcity from 1910 through...

Line graph displays the number of immigrants to the U.S. by home region over time....