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Lesson Plans & Activities

Peer-reviewed, classroom-ready NGSS-aligned lesson plans, activities, data puzzles, virtual field trips, and design challenges covering environmental hazards, climate change, mental health, Earth systems, community resilience, and more.  

Lesson Plans & Activities

Aerial view of Boulder, Colorado, showing the city with its grid-like streets surrounded by lush greenery, with the Flatirons rock formations and mountains in the background under a clear blue sky
Teaching Climate Science Principles: Wildfire

In this sequence of lessons, students will explore the questions, what are the local and national impacts of wildfire and how do we build resiliency. 

 In this sequence of lessons, students will explore the questions, what are the local and national impacts of wildfire and how do we build resiliency.
Unit
A pair of figures and the Earth inside an arch of nature elements such as clouds, leaves, and birds
A vibrant field of red poppies in full bloom with green buds scattered among them, set against a backdrop of lush green meadows, dense forest, and the jagged sandstone Flatirons rock formations under a bright blue sky with scattered clouds
Teaching Climate Science Concepts: Drought

In this sequence of lessons, students will explore the questions, what are the local and national impacts of wildfire and how do we build resiliency. 

 In this sequence of lessons, students will explore the question, what are the local impacts of drought and how do we build resiliency?
Unit
A pair of figures and the Earth inside an arch of nature elements such as clouds, leaves, and birds
Illustration of two people high-fiving in a work environment

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