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Sustainable Living: Interactive Environmental Curriculum for Educators

A comprehensive guide to teaching sustainability through interactive lesson plans covering energy, agriculture, waste management, animals and ecosystems, consumption, and engaging activities. Empower students to make environmentally-conscious decisions through hands-on learning and discussions.

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Sustainable Living: Interactive Environmental Curriculum for Educators

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  1. ACT: Active Conservation Training A Guide to Sustainability Curriculum By Connor Johnson, Jillian Shrader, Kristyna Bradley, Anna Nelson, and Libby Chelsvig

  2. Energy Lesson Plan • Understanding what energy is and how people use it • Energy usage and sources in everyday material things • Fossil fuels • Renewable energies • Solar • Wind • Hydropower

  3. Agriculture Lesson Plan: • Land degradation due to farming • Overgrazing • Deforestation • Desertification • Loss of Biodiversity • Corn Basics • Difference between field corn and sweet corn • Problems with growing field corn • Herbicides and Pesticides • Solutions

  4. Waste Lesson Plan: Waste Management Ask: What is waste? Does Nature create waste? Discuss product life and death – 3 R’s and how they interconnect with one another. Encourage students to take discussion and recycling ideas from the classroom home. Activity: Waste Sorting Game • Sorting waste into trash, recycling, and compost • What has to be thrown out • What can be repurposed to help make nutrient rich soil • What can be recycled • Plastic can take 1,000 years to degrade in a landfill, aluminum 500, ect

  5. Animals and Ecosystems Lesson Plan: Animals and Ecosystems • What are ecosystems and their services • What they provide • Why they’re important • Examples of animals that make ecosystems go round • Birds, bees, bats, ect Activity: Nature Walk • 20 minutes to a few hours • Explore local parks, green spaces • Education about local nature • Flora and fauna • Geography and geology • Public lands • Leave No Trace • Alternative forms of transportation

  6. Consumption Lesson Plan: • Role of consumption in sustainability efforts • Consumerism and impact an American society • Sustainable Consumption patterns Activity: Make your own tote bag • Have students bring an old T-shirt, stained, too small, etc. Students will also need scissors, and can use markers or extra string as desired. • Make 4-8 inch vertical cuts from bottom, tie pieces together in knots to close bottom of bag or sew if preferred. • Cut sleeves and collar out to create straps • Decorate as wanted

  7. Other Activities Trivia Jenga: Ecological Footprint: • Estimate individual footprints • Compare and discuss results • Discuss methods to decrease their ecological footprints • Challenge to create lowest, realistic, footprint value • Encourage students to make changes in their lives to reflect their revised ecological footprints

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