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Students will work in small groups to create an informational flyer promoting community involvement in their conservation efforts in this integrated lesson plan.

Type: Lesson Plan

Students will work individually and in small groups to analyze the Everglades Forever Act then roleplay as a social media team attempting to increase community involvement in this integrated lesson plan.

Type: Lesson Plan

Students will observe a demonstration of the effects of changing a landscape on water flow and connect what they observe in the demo with the development of South Florida wetlands. They will then be introduced to the Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan (CERP) and assess the influence the government had on changes in the ecosystem and the lives of the South Florida population in this integrated lesson plan.

Type: Lesson Plan

Type: Lesson Plan

Students will analyze information about various current and ongoing CERP projects and report on the progress that is being made. 

Type: Lesson Plan

In this lesson, students will analyze an informational text intended to support reading in the content area. The article compares carbon emissions from human activities to those from natural volcanic processes. The authors outline the methods, data collection, and findings of carbon emissions, closing the debate on what releases the most carbon. The lesson plan includes a note-taking guide, text-dependent questions, a writing prompt, answer keys, and a writing rubric. Numerous options to extend the lesson are also included.

Type: Lesson Plan

This lesson plan is intended to support reading in the content area. In this lesson, students will read an informational text that describes how people in Bangladesh are using homestead farming to provide for their families, while simultaneously contributing to preserving local forests. With the help of USAID, farmers are using higher-yielding seeds and cultivating crops using organic fertilizers and composting. The demand for food grown without pesticides and nourished by compost helps the homestead farmers to make enough money to improve their standard of living, while helping the environment at the same time. The lesson plan includes a note-taking guide, text-dependent questions, a writing prompt, answer keys, and a writing rubric.

Type: Lesson Plan

Jaguars lived throughout North America during the last Ice Age and were among some of the most common predators of the time period, with a range as far north west as Washington state and as far northeast as southern Pennsylvania. In modern times, jaguars ranged as far north as the South eastern United States, but the animals were considered dangerous and were hunted to extinction in America. Jaguar populations in the United States have recently been expanding and jaguars have been seen in places where they have been absent for over 40 years.

Students will learn how human interaction with the environment through hunting/over-hunting, legislation, and protected lands can affect species in North America.

Type: Lesson Plan

Dr. Melodie Naja of The Everglades Foundation describes research and modeling programs designed to better understand origins and localized levels of phosphorous pollution in the Everglades.

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Type: Perspectives Video: Expert

Dr. Mahmood Shivji explains how rapid genetic testing of shark tissue samples is used to address societal pressures on marine environments.

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Type: Perspectives Video: Expert

Roads are a great resource for humans, but what do they mean for fragile ecosystems? Find out in this video.

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Type: Perspectives Video: Expert

Ecologist, Rebecca Means, describes the process of determining remote locations in the USA and developing quantitative questions that are appropriate.

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Type: Perspectives Video: Professional/Enthusiast

Alicia Brown describes the role of sea grass beds in the environment.

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Type: Perspectives Video: Teaching Idea

Given a common environmental situation, students will research available literature or other resources for more information, and logically argue a viewpoint. They will be able to demonstrate a real-life decision-making process and evaluate its outcome.

Type: Teaching Idea

This informational text resource is intended to support reading in the content area. This article answers the question of whether volcanic activity or human activities contribute more to global warming. With evidence and support, they easily conclude human activities are the heaviest contributor

Type: Text Resource

This informational text resource is designed to support reading in the content area. The text describes how people in Bangladesh are using homestead farming to provide for their families, while simultaneously contributing to preserving local forests. With the help of USAID, farmers are using higher-yielding seeds and cultivating crops using organic fertilizers and composting. The demand for food grown without pesticides and nourished by compost helps the homestead farmers to make enough money to improve their standard of living, while helping the environment at the same time.

Type: Text Resource

This informational text resource is intended to support reading in the content area. This article is about how agricultural pesticides are contributing to the biodiversity loss of invertebrates. Research teams examined streams in broad regions to study the effects of pesticides in those ecosystems. Up to 42% fewer species were discovered in streams that were highly contaminated. In another study, it was found that neonicotinoid insecticides accumulate in the soil at levels that kill soil invertebrates.

Type: Text Resource

This informational text resource is intended to support reading in the content area. Smog began appearing in Los Angeles in the 1940s and became a problem for decades. Scientists were able to figure out the cause of smog only after intensive study of organic compounds in the air. After discovering that nitrogen oxides from car exhaust were a primary ingredient in smog, it took years of policy changes and industrial innovation to reduce air pollution and resolve the smog issue in LA and worldwide.

Type: Text Resource