Resource Library

National Environmental Education Week (EE Week) has compiled their own set of Oil Spill resources. They include everything from websites and articles to visuals and lesson plans. Content spans grades K-12, so make sure to check for your appropriate grade level.

Students will understand the benefits and problems associated with fire and the role that fire plays in maintaining healthy ecosystems.

Romey Stuckart is an artist who creates large-scale paintings of the forest and her surroundings, skillfully balancing abstraction and representation. Her heavily textured paintings are filled with inspiration and intuition. Using Stuckart's painting The Cedar as a focal point, students will create paintings while learning about the role that forests play in our environment and our imagination. From the Kennedy Center's ArtsEdge program.

In this lesson, students will examine the ways in which art has the power to influence government policy. Students will learn that photography has had a social impact at various intersections with other historical events and movements. This lesson addresses the impact the photographs of the western frontier had on eastern U.S., especially by ensuring that the national parks system would be created. From the Kennedy Center's ArtsEdge program.

Welcome to the Ocean Portal – a unique, interactive online experience that inspires awareness, understanding, and stewardship of the world’s Ocean, developed by the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of Natural History and more than 20 collaborating organizations.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and Proteccion de la Fauna Mexicana A.C., a Mexican non-governmental organization, developed The Monarch Butterfly Manual, Royal Mail: A Manual for the Environmental Educator. This manual offers activities and labs, arranged by grade level, that promote conservation of the Monarch Butterfly.

Through the application of math concepts students examine the degree of biodiversity that exists in the everyday environment in order to develop an understanding of how scientists classify organisms. They also explore why biodiversity is important for living things.

This resource contains lesson plans that integrate Native knowledge and scientific issues relating to the environment. Although there are multiple lessons plans, "Moose" and "Digging and Preparing Spruce Roots" are the most high school appropriate.

ESA21 offers over 40 activities that engage students in a variety of environmental topics. The activities rely on a mixture of hands-on, field and Web-based experiences that give students a deeper understanding of the issues. Topic areas include: air, environmental science basics, the biosphere, earth, energy, home life and pollution.