environmental education

Five Top Ways to Increase Environmental Awareness in Your Classroom

1. Practice what you preach. Reduce, re-use, recycle, and do it where the kids can see you do it: the classroom, the lunchroom, the playground.
2. Include earth science in all your lessons. Once you start looking for connections, you'll be amazed how easily you can bring environmental stewardship into your lessons.
3. Do the math. Statistics about green topics abound on the internet and in the news. When you're studying math, you might as well use examples from this topic instead of the number of apples Suzy and Johnny have.
4. Learn from history. When you're studying about the Great Depression, learn about desertification. When you study great American heroes, remember John Muir and Johnny Appleseed.We didn't just start thinking about this topic.
5. Open a book. Literature gives lots of opportunities. Compare Paul Bunyan's attitude with our modern thoughts on forestry. Here again, once you develop that awareness, you'll find it easy to bring it out in your lesson plans.