Want to Build a Unit on Protecting the Environment?
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) offers a site dedicated to teaching about protecting the environment.
Who is this Site for?
This site is educators who wish to teach about the environment.
What does the site offer?
This site offers background information, lesson plans, and activities. There is also information about workshops, conferences, grants, awards and a other topics.
The information can be used by teachers in traditional classrooms, in an outdoor settings, in community centers or in the home.
What specific resources does this site offer?
The EPA Teaching Site offers
- Information you can use when you teach
- Teaching resources - Lesson plans and activities from the EPA - Grouped by topic
- EPA publications - Free materials for teachers and students
- EPA Quick Guide - Overview of how the EPA works
- Help and Recognition
- Awards - Programs for teachers and students
- Grants - Links to connect good ideas with the financial resources
- Workshops & Conferences - Training opportunities in many local areas
- Students Involvement Projects
- Community Service Projects - Students apply what they learn in the classroom to real life
- Student Jobs and Scholarships - Research environmental careers, internships and jobs
Specific Environmental Areas for Teaching
The EPA site focuses upon these specific environmental areas:
- Air
- Conservation
- Ecosystems
- Health
- In Your Neighborhood
- Waste
- Water
Other Resources
- Environmental Kids Club - A site for elementary age students
- Environmental Kids Club
- Student Center - A site for middle school age students
- Student Center
- High School Environmental Center - Age appropriate site for high school students
- High School Environmental Center
- Environmental Education Center - An source of adult-oriented environmental information
- Environmental Education Center
Environmental issues connect with so many content areas; e.g., health, PE, mathematics, science (biology, chemistry, geology, physics) and social studies (geography, history, sociology, psychology) that just about every teacher can make creative use of the resources on this EPA Teaching Center educational site.
