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Congratulations to our video contest winners, the Waste Wizards!
Congratulations to our mural winners from Scotland!
To Enter Our Contests
Fill out entry form and upload your entry by clicking the link here
Many ways to participate:
Art: Signs, Posters, Photos, Murals and Paintings
Comic and Adventure Stories
Presentations
Projects: Plant Trees or Gardens, Do Clean Ups, STEM Projects: Evaluations, Designs, Models and Calculations, Create a Board Game, a Video Game or an App
Performance: Songs, Raps, Poems, Dance, Performance Art, Video Clips, Podcasts
Writing: Action Plans, Letters, Petitions, Essays, Articles, Book Reviews or Pamphlets
And more :)
Please only use non-toxic supplies and materials, zero-voc paints, markers, etc.
Always work in well ventilated areas.
Contest Examples
Art
Signs and Posters
Mural
2. Comics and Adventure Stories
3. Presentations
4. Projects
Tree Planting
Beach Cleanup
Designs or Models: Refine and Explain or Evaluate
Refine STEM Calculations
5. Performance: Songs, Raps, Poems, Dance, Performance Art, Video Clips, Podcasts
Song
6. Writing
Action Plans
Letters
Poetry
Articles and Essays
Click HERE for a sample essay: Reasons Why School Districts Should Pass a No Idling Resolution
Curriculum & Teaching Resources
Duckster’s Environment for Kids
Encyclopedia Brittanica for Kids
Pediatric Environmental Health
What is the Big Deal with Carbon?
Women's and Children's Health Network - Environment
Curriculum
All Curriculum is Free. Please see our Terms of Use at the bottom of the page.
Please contact us with any curriculum ideas or suggestions.
California Dept of Education: Resources for Distance Learning
Climate Action Teacher Resource
National Wildlife Federation - Eco Schools USA
Teaching Sustainable Development Goals
Team 1: Climate change
Climate Change In My Backyard, Grades 7-9
Climate Change In My Backyard, Grades 10-12
Climate Change Live, Grades K-12
EPA Lesson Plans, Grades K-12
Green Team Curricula & Activities
I Can Save the Earth, Grade 4
Pulitzer Center Climate Change, Grades K-College
Stanford Climate Change Curriculum, Grades 6-8
Stanford Climate Change Curriculum, Grades 9-12
NEEF’s Field Classrooms, Grades 5-College
NEEF’s Greening STREAM Learning Center, Grades 5-College
team 1: renewable energy
Renewable Energy Living Lab: Power Your School, Grades 5-8 STREAM
Solar Power, Grades 3-5 STREAM
Water Power, Grades 3-5 STREAM
Wind Power, Grades 3-5 STREAM
team 2: Trees
Get to Know Trees, Grades 4-8
Introduction to Sustainable Forestry, Grades 6-8
Reforestation: Impact on Climate, Grades 6-8
Seed to Seedling, Grades 3-4
Talk About Trees, Grades 4-6
Tree Detectives, Grades 3-6
Urban Trees, Grades 6-8
team 2: Planting for Pollinators
Building and Testing Our Vanilla Plant Pollinator, Grade 2
Flowers Seeking Pollinators, Grades 2-7
National Wildlife Federation: Native Plant Finder
Plants and Pollinators, Grades 3-5
Planting a Wildflower Garden, Middle School
Team 2: Wildlife
15 Ways To Celebrate Endangered Species Day Online And At Home, any grade
Amazon Watch, Grades 1-12
Critter Cam Activity Guide, Grades 2-12
San Diego Audubon Society: 2021 Birdathon
San Diego Audubon Society: Black-headed Grosbeak Migration Game, English & Spanish
San Diego Audubon Society: Monthly Birding eBird Mobile Application
San Diego Audubon Society: Outdoor Explore
WWF Our Planet Live: The World In Your Classroom
Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation, YouTube Channel
Team 3: Air Quality
Clean Air Elementary School Lesson Plans, Grades K-5
Clean Air Middle School Lesson Plans, Grades 6-8
EPA Air Quality and Energy STEM
EPA Indoor Air Quality Tools for Schools
Invisible Air Pollution: I Don't Believe My Eyes, STREAM
I've Gotta Get Some Air, STREAM
Greenhouse Atmosphere: Let's Heat Things Up, STREAM
A Merry-Go-Round for Dirty Air, STREAM
The No Zone of Ozone, STREAM
NSTA Cleaning the Air, Grades 6-8
On the Move: Pollution Transport & Weather, STREAM
Pollution Solutions, STREAM
Sensing Air Pollution, STREAM
AirNow.gov Teacher's Air Quality Resources
The 6 Infamous Pollutants, Grades 4-6
Visible Air Pollution: You've Got to See It to Believe It, STREAM
What's Air Got to Do with It? Properties & Quality, STREAM
What's Hiding in the Air?, STREAM
Washing Air: Wet Scrubber Pollutant Recovery Method, STREAM
What's a Kid to Do? Environmental Letter Campaign, STREAM
Team 3: air quality: Vehicle Idling
Clean Air for Schools Lesson Plan, Grades K-2
Clean Air for Schools Lesson Plan, Grades 3-5
Clean Air for Schools Lesson Plan, Grades 6-8
Idlers: Please Stop Your Engines!, Grades 3-5
Team 4: Protect Water, Water is Life
Groundwater Model, Grades 6-12
How Clean is that Water?, Grades 5-7
Introduction to Water Filtration, Grades K-6
Pave It or Plant It, Grades 7-12
Water Cycle Drama, Grades K-6
Water Pollution Graphing, Grades K-6
Watershed Models, Grades K-12
Team 5: No toxic chemicals, Pesticide Safety
National Institutes of Health Pesticide Safety, Grades K-5
team 6: Plastic Pollution
Ahoy! Plastic in the Ocean, Grades 7-9
Be a Food Waste Warrior, Grades K-12
Educators Guide to Marine Debris, Grades K-12
Plastic Challenge, Grades 2-12
Plastic, Plastic Everywhere, Grades 4-8
Plastic Pollution Activities and Activity Guide, Grades K-12
Talking Trash and Your Environment, Grades 9-12
Social & Environmental Justice
Amazon Watch, Grades 1-12
Analyzing Environmental Justice, Grades 6-12
Teaching Tolerance, Grades K-12
Community Science
STEM & Technical Certificates
Energize Schools Project-Based Curriculum, Grades 9-College
Building Learners, Grades K-12
FIRST LEGO League Jr., Grades 1-4
Common Core state standards (CCSS)
California Mathematic, Grades K-12
California English Language Arts, Grades K-12
Selected Next generation science standards (NGSS)
K-ESS3-3 Earth and Human Activity
K-LS1-1 From Molecules to Organisms: Structures and Processes
3-LS3-2 Heredity: Inheritance and Variation of Traits
3-LS4-4 Biological Evolution: Unity and Diversity
3-LS4-1 Biological Evolution: Unity and Diversity
4-ESS3-1 Earth and Human Activity
5-ESS3-1 Earth and Human Activity
5-PS1-1 Matter and Its Interactions
HS-ESS3 Earth and Human Activity
professional certifications & Development
Advanced Energy Design Guide K–12 School Buildings: Achieving Zero Energy (AEDG)
Computer Science Development Guide
edWEB.net - free professional learning network for teachers
Green Classroom Professional (GCP) Certificate
How To Become Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Certified
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