Our resource library has reference materials, storybooks, videos, DVD's, curriculum guides, puppets, and handouts. Let us help you incorporate environmental lessons into your lesson plans.
Global Issues and Sustainable Solutions: Population, Poverty, Consumption, Conflict, and the Environment by Devin Hibbard, M.P.A., Gilda Wheeler, M.Ed., Wendy Church, Ph.D., Facing the Future: People and the Planet, Seattle, 2004. (Grades 6-8)
Investigating Solid Waste Issues - Science-Technology-Society, Ohio Department of Natural Resources, 1994. A secondary, interdisciplinary, environmental studies activity guidebook about solid waste, natural resources, and environment protection. (Grades 7-12)
Issues, Evidence, and You, SEPUP (The Science Education for Public Understanding Program), University of California at Berkeley, Lawrence Hall of Science, 2003. Published by Lad-Aids, Inc., Ronkonkoma, NY. Includes Teacher's Guide, Volume 1 - Curriculum on Water and Materials, and Teacher's Guide, Volume 2 - Curriculum on Energy and Environment. (Grades 7-9)
It's All Connected: A Comprehensive Guide to Global Issues and Sustainable Solutions by Benjamin Wheeler, M.A., Gilda Wheeler, M.Ed., and Wendy Church, Ph.D., Facing the Future: People and the Planet, Seattle, 2005. (Grades 9-12)
Living with Plastics, SEPUP (Science Education for Public Understanding Program,) Lawrence Hall of Science, University of California at Berkley. Published by Lab-Aids, Ronkonkoma, NY, 2003. Module includes 8 activities that include evaluating materials, properties of plastic polymers, natural and synthetic polymers, and more. (Grades 6-12)
Ollie Saves the Planet (an Interactive Environmental Education Resource by Sustain Ability International Ply, LLC). Introduces the concept of sustainability and asks users to reduce, reuse, recycle, and rethink their actions in the areas of waste, water, energy, air, and biodiversity. (Grades 5-8)
Partners with the Earth, Heritage Education Foundation, Inc., Indianapolis, 1992. Encourages learners to think about how the daily routine of people's lives affects the environment. It covers natural resources, renewable and non-renewable resources, waste reduction, reuse, recycling, and municipal solid waste. (Grades 5-12)
Science and Sustainability, SEPUP (The Science Education for Public Understanding Program), by Lab-Aids, Inc., 2001. Integrated environmental science with four parts - Living on Earth, Feeding the World, Using Earth's Resources, and Moving the World. Students relate all the activities in all four parts to the concept of sustainability and it implications. (Grades 9-12)
Super Saver Investigators, Ohio Department of Natural Resources, Division of Litter Prevention and Recycling, 1988, 1990. Interdisciplinary, environmental studies activity guidebook on solid waste and natural resources for primary and intermediate grades.
Windows on Waste, Ohio Department of Natural Resources, Division of Recycling and Litter Prevention, 1999. Includes activities on landfills, composting and recycling.
(Grades 4-6)
