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The Learning Center - Teachers
Learning Center
Highlights
Follow these links to find curriculum content, lesson plans, grant information, and other aids to education for all ages on agriculture and the environment.
General
- EPA's Environmental
Education Center
Resources to help teachers, including guides, curricula, and grant information plus a selection of documents to introduce environmental topics.
- EPA's
Teachers Lounge - Region 7 (Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska)
Additional resources and activities for teachers.
- Environmental
Education LINK - Teacher Education
Provides teachers ways to research EE topics, find lesson plans, gather on-line information on EE conferences, learn more about professional development and a wide array of EE-related information and resources.
- The Gateway
to Educational Materials
Quick and easy access to thousands of educational resources found on various federal, state, university, non-profit, and commercial Internet sites.
Agriculture
- Ag 101
An introduction to American agriculture that covers the primary commodities produced today and the methods of doing so.
- Ag In the Classroom
USDA program with the goal of helping students gain a greater awareness of the role of agriculture in the economy and society and become citizens who support wise agricultural policies. - American Farm Bureau Foundation
for Agriculture - Educating about Agriculture
A clearninghouse for ideas, resources, links, and more. - Livestock and Poultry Environmental
Stewardship Curriculum
The educational materials developed for the Livestock and Poultry Environmental Stewardship (LPES) Curriculum, a nationally developed and regionally piloted core curriculum, include 26 lessons grouped into six modules; environmental stewardship and/or regulatory compliance assessment tools for most lessons; and PowerPoint presentations for each lesson. The LPES educational materials were developed with support from the USDA-CSREES, EPA, and the University of Nebraska Cooperative Extension at Lincoln. - MidWest Plan Service (MWPS)
A university-based publishing cooperative dedicated to publishing and disseminating research-based, peer-reviewed, practical, and affordable publications that support the outreach missions of the 12 North Central Region land-grant universities plus the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA).
Air
- Activity:
Scavenger Hunt
Air quality activity for grades K through 12.
- AirNow - Teachers' Air Quality
Resources
Information from EPA for teachers about air quality. - Classroom
Activities - Air
Air quality activities for use by teachers. - EPA Air Pollution Training
Institute - Education Resources
Air quality resources for educators in grades K through 12. - Teacher
Resource Center - Air Quality
A project that focuses the attention of elementary, junior high, and high school students on air pollution issues.
Pollution Prevention
- Toolbox
of Lesson Plans - Pollution Prevention
A series of lesson plans on various pollution prevention concepts.
Water
- A World in Our Backyard: A Wetlands Education and Stewardship Program
This program suggests ways to study wetland characteristics, why wetlands are important, and how students and teachers can help protect a local wetland.
- Classroom
Activities - Water
Classroom activities about water quality.
- Clean Water Act
Online Training
An introduction to the Clean Water Act developed by EPA's Watershed Academy Web. - Drinking
Water and Groundwater Stuff for Kids and Teachers
Resources and activities for educators in grades K through 12. - Environmental
Education - Build Your Own Aquifer
Experiment to illustrate how water is stored in an aquifer, how groundwater can become contaminated, and how this contamination ends up in the drinking water well. - Nonpoint
Source Pollution - Fact Sheets
Fact sheets about nonpoint source pollution of water. - Wetlands
Education
Activities, curriculum and guides, education programs, teaching tools, and links to information on wetlands.
Waste
- Classroom
Activities - Solid and Hazardous Waste
Classroom activities about waste. - Planet
Protectors Club
Fun games, activities and resources for grades K through 5. - Recycle City
An activity about waste and recycling for grades K through 12.
Wildlife
- U.S. Fish and
Wildlife Service Educators Page
Information about wetlands and other wildlife environmental issues.
This page is sponsored by
EPA's Ag Center. 