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Climate Change | Consumption | Human Rights | Nature’s Rights | Pollution | Water | By Grade Level

Climate Change

K-5  /  Picturing a Sustainable Future: Investigating the Causes and Effects of Climate Change Through Photographs
By Lori Townsend

supplemental documents:
Blue Sky Sign Beyond the Frame Activity Sheet Cause and Effect Cause Word Card
Effect Word Card Note-Taking Guide Toxic Landscape Beyond the Frame Activity Sheet
9-12  /  Global Climate Change: Exploring the Impacts of Overpopulation
By Heather Oswald

supplemental documents:
PowerPoint Data
Community College  /  Pseudoscience or Science: Examining Global Climate Change Through Empirical Evidence
By Meghan Davis

Consumption

K-5  /  Footprints – Big, Small and Gone: Lessening Environmental Impact by Reducing Reusing, Recycling and Refusing
By Lee Ann Smith
6-8  / Is Plastic Truly Fantastic? Looking at the Percent Increase/Decrease of Plastic Consumption Over Time
By Annie Polashock
9-12  /  Perhaps Less Is More
By Janis Antonek

supplemental documents:
Consumption Activity Consumption Infographic Photo Analysis 1
Photo Analysis 2 PSA Checklist Slideshow
Survey Video Transcript
Community College  /  Consumption of Resources; Consumption of News
By Holly Grant Whistler

Human Rights

K-5  /  Access to Clean Water – Everyone’s Right, Right?
By Lisa Brewer

supplemental documents:
Science Reporting Form
6-8  /  Science-Fiction or Real Life? Exploring Human Rights through Dystopian Literature
By Jacey MacDonald

supplemental documents:
Educational Art Piece Student Planning Document Blue Sky Sign and There Will Come Soft Rains Student Handout
9-12  /  Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Equity
By Janis Antonek

supplemental documents:
Activity 1 Activity 2 Activity 3 Reading
Activity 4 PSA UN Human Rights Poster
9-12  /  Dystopia Now?: Using the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals as Context for Teaching Dystopian Literature
By Jack Hudson
Community College  /  Crossroads: The Intersection of Psychology and Human Rights
By Patricia Adams

Nature’s Rights

K-5  /  Yours, Mine and Nature’s: Understanding our Role in Protecting the Rights of Nature
By Lori Townsend

supplemental documents:
Human Rights Poster – Conversation Starter Note-Taking Guide Picking up the Pieces – Activity
Seal in Net Image Shark Fins Image Cows and Smoke Image
9-12  /  Nature v. Overpopulation: Justice for Mother Nature
By Heather Oswald

supplemental documents:
PowerPoint
Community College  /  Human Rights and the Rights of Nature
By Holly Grant Whistler

Pollution

K-5  /  Talkin’ Trash: Perception, Pollution and Action-Taking!
By Lee Ann Smith
6-8  / Help! I Can’t Breathe! Looking at the Statistics of Pollution in Major Cities
By Annie Polashock
9-12  /  Wasteland Narratives: Exploring Our Pollution Problem Through Short Story Writing
By Jack Hudson
9-12  /  Are People Dense? Density, Population and Possible Pollution Correlations
By Stephanie Morgan

supplemental documents:
Word Problems
Community College  /  The Psychology of Pollution
By Patricia Adams

Water

K-5  /  Water Threats Around the World Affect More than Just Water
By Lisa Brewer

supplemental documents:
Photo Analysis Template Rubric for Advertisement
6-8  /  Literature Reflects Reality: Exploring Water Scarcity Through Visual and Literary Analysis
By Jacey MacDonald
9-12  /  Wet and Wild: The Calculus-Based Physics of Water Use
By Stephanie Morgan
Community College  /  Evaluating the World’s Disproportionate Consumption of Water Through Research and Self-Examination
By Meghan Davis

By Grade Level

K-5 | 6-8 | 9-12 | Community College

K-5

Access to Clean Water – Everyone’s Right, Right?
By Lisa Brewer
Access to Clean Water – Study Guide
Access to Clean Water – Science Reporting Form

Footprints – Big, Small and Gone: Lessening Environmental Impact by Reducing Reusing, Recycling and Refusing
By Lee Ann Smith
Footprints – Study Guide

Picturing a Sustainable Future: Investigating the Causes and Effects of Climate Change Through Photographs
By Lori Townsend
Picturing a Sustainable Future – Study Guide
Picturing a Sustainable Future – Blue Sky Sign Beyond the Frame Activity Sheet
Picturing a Sustainable Future – Cause and Effect
Picturing a Sustainable Future – Cause Word Card
Picturing a Sustainable Future – Effect Word Card
Picturing a Sustainable Future – Note-Taking Guide
Picturing a Sustainable Future – Toxic Landscape Beyond the Frame Activity Sheet

Talkin’ Trash: Perception, Pollution and Action-Taking!
By Lee Ann Smith
Talkin’ Trash – Study Guide

Water Threats Around the World Affect More than Just Water
By Lisa Brewer
Water Threats – Study Guide
Water Threats – Photo Analysis Template
Water Threats – Rubric for Advertisement

Yours, Mine and Nature’s: Understanding our Role in Protecting the Rights of Nature
By Lori Townsend
Yours, Mine and Nature’s – Study Guide
Yours, Mine and Nature’s – Human Rights Poster – Conversation Starter
Yours, Mine and Nature’s – Note-Taking Guide
Yours, Mine and Nature’s – Picking up the Pieces – Activity
Yours, Mine and Nature’s – Seal in Net Image
Yours, Mine and Nature’s – Shark Fins Image
Yours, Mine and Nature’s – Cows and Smoke Image

6-8

Help! I Can’t Breathe! Looking at the Statistics of Pollution in Major Cities
By Annie Polashock
Help! I Can’t Breathe! – Study Guide

Is Plastic Truly Fantastic? Looking at the Percent Increase/Decrease of Plastic Consumption Over Time
By Annie Polashock
Is Plastic Truly Fantastic – Study Guide

Literature Reflects Reality: Exploring Water Scarcity Through Visual and Literary Analysis
By Jacey MacDonald
Literature Reflects Reality – Study Guide

Science-Fiction or Real Life? Exploring Human Rights through Dystopian Literature
By Jacey MacDonald
Science-Fiction or Real Life? – Study Guide
Science-Fiction or Real Life? – Educational Art Piece Student Planning Document
Science-Fiction or Real Life? – Blue Sky Sign and There Will Come Soft Rains Student Handout

9-12

Are People Dense? Density, Population and Possible Pollution Correlations
By Stephanie Morgan
Are People Dense? – Study Guide
Are People Dense? – Word Problems

Dystopia Now?: Using the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals as Context for Teaching Dystopian Literature
By Jack Hudson
Dystopia Now? – Study Guide

Global Climate Change: Exploring the Impacts of Overpopulation
By Heather Oswald
Global Climate Change – Study Guide
Global Climate Change – PowerPoint
Global Climate Change – Data

Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Equity
By Janis Antonek
Life, Liberty – Study Guide
Life, Liberty – Activity 1
Life, Liberty – Activity 2
Life, Liberty – Activity 3 Reading
Life, Liberty – Activity 4 PSA
Life, Liberty – UN Human Rights Poster

Nature v. Overpopulation: Justice for Mother Nature
By Heather Oswald
Nature v. Overpopulation – Study Guide
Nature v. Overpopulation – PowerPoint

Perhaps Less Is More
By Janis Antonek
Perhaps Less Is More – Study Guide
Perhaps Less Is More – Consumption Activity
Perhaps Less Is More – Consumption Infographic
Perhaps Less Is More – Photo Analysis 1
Perhaps Less Is More – Photo Analysis 2
Perhaps Less Is More – PSA Checklist
Perhaps Less Is More – Slideshow
Perhaps Less Is More – Survey
Perhaps Less Is More – Video Transcript

Wasteland Narratives: Exploring Our Pollution Problem Through Short Story Writing
By Jack Hudson
Wasteland Narratives – Study Guide

Wet and Wild: The Calculus-Based Physics of Water Use
By Stephanie Morgan
Wet and Wild – Study Guide

Community College

Consumption of Resources; Consumption of News
By Holly Grant Whistler
Consumption of Resources – Study Guide

Crossroads: The Intersection of Psychology and Human Rights
By Patricia Adams
Crossroads – Study Guide

Evaluating the World’s Disproportionate Consumption of Water Through Research and Self-Examination
By Meghan Davis
Evaluating the World’s Water – Study Guide

Human Rights and the Rights of Nature
By Holly Grant Whistler
Human Rights – Study Guide

Pseudoscience or Science: Examining Global Climate Change Through Empirical Evidence
By Meghan Davis
Pseudoscience or Science – Study Guide

The Psychology of Pollution
By Patricia Adams
The Psychology of Pollution – Study Guide