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Acting / Dance |
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1. Plays about the environment
2. Role playing as trees or endangered animals that are about to
be killed. |
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Art / Design |
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1. Posters / poster contests
2. Drawings on your favorite part of the environment.
3. Use all natural materials (recycled paper, natural paints) for
sculptures.
4. Make collages out of garbage.
5. Have the students draw what they picture the world look like
in twenty years from now. |
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Business |
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1. Teach how you can make money through the environment (recycling,
lawn, etc.)
2. Environmental real estate ? proper spacing of homes, etc.
3. Type letters to companies, politicians, etc. about the environment. |
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English |
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1. Write environmental poems / essays.
2. Have the entire class start a letter writing campaign to STATE
SENATORS etc. on environmental issues.
3. Creative writing about the environment.
4. Read environmental stories, books.
5. Write letters to developers that have no restrictions.
6. Book reports on environmental books. w/c literature.
7. Oral reports on the environment.
8. Environmental current events.
9. Incorporate environmental vocabulary words.
10. Environmental essay contest (creative, narratives, poems, etc.)
about the destruction of the planet, resources, arid nature. |
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Social Studies / History |
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1. Posters / poster contests
2. Drawings on your favorite part of the environment.
3. Use all natural materials (recycled paper, natural paints) for
sculptures.
4. Make collages out of garbage.
5. Have the students draw what they picture the world look like
in twenty years from now. |
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Home Economics |
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1. Teach about adverse effects on the environment due to household
products (cleaners, beauty supplies).
2. Show films on the destruction, as well as the beauty of the
earth.
3. Grow house-plants (greenhouse effect).
4. Teach about recycling/how to in the home.
5. Explain how to buy products that can be recycled.
6. Teach students which products are environmentally safe.
7. Teach students about the killing of dolphins in tuna fishing
nets.
8. Teach proper disposal of oils.
9. Replace all plastic bottles with glass, in the classroom as
well as home.
10. Conserve water in the classroom.
11. Teach about composting piles and their uses.
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Horticulture |
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1. Plant and raise trees.
2. Show the effects of environmentally dangerous materials on plants/trees.
3. Proper use of chemicals?make sure that they are environmentally
safe.
4. Create composting piles and experiments.
5. Raise a tree farm to be used for fund?raisers/planting. |
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Sociology |
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1. Projects to show how neglect of the environment will effect
people's lives in the future.
2. Examine different cultures and how they conserve their environments.
3. Examine how other cultures deal with pollution and waste problems. |
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Physical Education |
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1. Environmental dances
2. Tree climbing exercise
3. If a student does not dress out, they must collect litter.
4. Learn about lungs/the air we breath.
5. Observation periods & brief summaries / Environmental
games.
6. Hikes on property?point out types ofwildlife, trees, plants. |
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Science |
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1. Facts on (helpful) uses of the environment.
2. Perform science projects/reports on the environment.
3. Chemically formulate a plant food/fertilizer.
4. Take nature walks ? point out important things in the environment
5. Learn about growing natural foods.
6. Talk about toxic waste, ozone layer, saving animals, water
pollution.
7. Study food chains.
8. Importance of trees for oxygen, homes, etc.
9. Discuss water pollution, air pollution, endangered animals,
oceans, including the dolphins?tuna problem.
10. Discuss the importance of the Everglades and rain forests.
11. Study the hazards of releasing balloons.
12. Discuss ways of promoting biodegradation in landfills.
13. Do field work around the school, community, etc.
14. Environmental experiments.
15. Projects to protect marine life.
16. Do environmental current events.
17. Have speakers dealing with the environment and what can be
done.
18. Study the effects of pollution and destruction and how they
relate to a particular science class.
19. Questions using environmental problems.
20. Studies on natural resources (oil, coal, natural gas, metal,
etc.).
21. Perform studies on wetlands.
22. Disposal of trash in proper containers.
23. Plant a research garden. |
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Math |
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1. Put examples of environmental word problems in books.
2. Recycling paper (homework/ extra credit)
3. Use problems with environmental statistics. |
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