Lesson Plans

Grades: 9-12

Sanitation

In Search of Sustainable Life

Students develop an index of the ten factors they identify as most important to a sustainable community and develop models for measuring those factors.

Grades: 6-8

Sanitation

In the News: Research for Tomorrow

Through planning, writing, and performing a news telecast, students use information from current events articles to create fact-based predictions about what their futures might look like.

Grades: 9-12

Rainforest Ecosystems

Go for the Green

Students play a board game about the fate of a rainforest where they must strategically balance economic and environmental decisions.

Grades: 6-8

Rainforest Ecosystems

Timber

In a simulation, students model what happens to a forest when trees are cut faster than they are planted, and graph their results.

Grades: 9-12

Child Wellbeing

Unfair Race

Representing different countries, students step forward or backward based on health conditions in their borders, to find which countries have an advantage in a final “race for health.” They then analyze different visual data on health spending and health coverage around the globe.

Grades: 6-8

Child Wellbeing

Lessons for Life

Students read and discuss a short conversation between two Ethiopian girls about attending school and read and analyze poems about girls’ education.