Curriculum - Evironmental Investigations - Teacher Resources at BeWorldWise.org

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Evironmental Investigations

This unit focuses on environmental issues on which students can have a real and meaningful impact. By studying the effects of ozone depletion, the need for water conservation, and the importance of effective waste management, students will understand that their actions directly affect the environment and will discover a variety of things they can do to help protect the earth they will inherit.

Unit 1: Water Conservation

Lesson 1: How Wet is Our Planet?
Lesson 2: Am I Drinking Dinosaur Pee?
Create Your Own Water Filtration System
Lesson 3: How Much Would You Use if You Had to Carry it Yourself?
Home Water Audit

Unit 2: Waste Management

Lesson 1: Whodunit?
     Things to Think About
     Guilty or Innocent?
     Guilty or Innocent? Teacher's Guide
Lesson 2: Paper or Plastic?
     Trash Chart
Lesson 3: Can Today's Soda Can Be Tomorrow's Park Bench?

Unit 3: Ultraviolet Radiation and Sun Protection

Lesson 1: UV - More Than Just Letters in the Alphabet?
Lesson 2: What Does UV Do?
Lesson 3: Is it Worth Protecting Ourselves?