Lesson Plans for Teaching Sustainability

Once I found this site I immediately thought that it could help me with creating my lessons for my health unit. It would also be an amazing resource for other teachers that want to incorporate climate change lessons into their classroom. It has great information about why sustainability is important as well as a helpful list of appropriate lesson plans. The lesson plans are hyperlinks that direct you to the original website such as, The Green Education Foundation or The National Park Service (both of these websites can also be great resources for teachers). It also breaks down what grades the lesson plans are appropriate for, potential standards, and content areas.

Core Integration:

The lessons specifically state which content areas they are incorporating. Many of the K-1 lessons outline language arts and science as the content areas they are focusing on. However, there are many content areas that may work for the lessons listed.

National Health Education Standards:

*I don’t believe NHES is appropriate for this site. It lists lesson plans that would definitely have NHES attached to it but for the internet resource itself I would not attach NHES.

Common Core State Standards:

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.K.4
Read emergent-reader texts with purpose and understanding.

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.K.1.B
Continue a conversation through multiple exchanges.

Next Generation Science Standards:

K-ESS3-3. Communicate solutions that will reduce the impact of humans on the land, water, air, and/or other living things in the local environment. * [Clarification Statement: Examples of human impact on the land could include cutting trees to produce paper and using resources to produce bottles. Examples of solutions could include reusing paper and recycling cans and bottles.]