The Clean Green Power program offers an introduction to the technology involved in clean, renewable energy and makes a great starting point for in-depth studies in several related areas. It provides a great context for teaching scientific principles related to energy transformations, chemical transformations, electricity, and light, which are central ...

All communities – urban, suburban, small town, rural – are experiencing growth and change, which has an impact on each community's environment.

The Greentimes Teacher Guide is online curricula developed by the Urban Ecology Institute to accompany their teen published newsletter. For every newsletter that teen writers create, staff puts together a companion guide for teachers. Each guide is closely linked to the content of one particular newsletter, but their cross-disciplinary activity suggestions ...

DEP has developed a Solid Waste Management Resource Guide (revised 1996) for Massachusetts schools. This 300-page guide includes hands-on, investigative activities on solid waste issues such as recycling, source reduction, composting, worm composting, and household hazardous waste management for grades K-12 as well as background information for teachers. The Solid ...

Designed to help integrate the study of sustainability into university-level economics education, each of these one- to two-week course supplements includes a reading for students (about 20-60 pages), exercises, discussion questions, and bibliographic references. Thirteen modules are currently available for download, free of charge, from http://www.ase.tufts.edu/gdae/education_materials/modules.html. Topics include Macroeconomics and ...

Wind Wisdom means being knowledgeable about wind power as a renewable energy source and sharing that knowledge with others. Middle and high school students participating in the Wind Wisdom activities go to the leading edge of technology as they learn about clean, renewable wind energy. The program is designed so ...