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Helping to Foster Environmental Literacy for All California Students

We rely on the environment for everything we need – the air we breathe, the water we drink, the food we eat, and much, much more. As the context in which we live our lives, the environment provides students an intrinsically engaging and authentic context for learning.
The California Education and the Environment Initiative is a statewide effort to make environmental literacy an integral part of K-12 instruction in California. We provide educators with professional learning and instructional materials that demonstrate how to blend the environment into the teaching of traditional academic subjects like science, history, and English language arts.

Lesson Plans, Teacher Guides and Online Environmental Resources for Educators

Find an array of environmental and science based lesson plans, activities and ideas below from EPA, other federal agencies and external organizations. ​Encontrar recursos para estudiantes y maestros.
Power2sustain

Teaching and Empowering Students to Value and Sustain their Natural World

Power2Sustain is a non-profit organization that supports K-12 public, charter and independent schools in teaching environmental literacy by providing lessons, activities and programs free-of-charge. All activities are grade-leveled and aligned to the Common Core Content Standards. The environmental literacy concepts are integrated into English Language Arts, math, social studies and even social-emotional lessons, so that students learn to value and sustain their natural word right along with learning the other core subjects.

11 Reduce, Reuse, Recycle Lesson Ideas For Every Subject

Reduce, reuse, recycle is a phrase that many of us have learned when we were in school. Now we can incorporate these principles into the classroom to pass it on to the next generation. These activities can help students explore how to put this phrase to use in many different ways. You can give “reduce, reuse, recycle” a whole new meaning by incorporating this concept into many subject areas. Many of these hands-on project ideas can be adapted for any grade level.
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Begin Your Voyage of Ocean Discovery

Here’s what you need to teach a class, plan a field trip, enroll in professional development programs, inspire teens to conservation action or simply have some fun while learning about ocean animals and habitats.

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   A resource for kids, parents and teachers to find fun and educational materials         related to health, science and the environment we live in today.

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