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If Trees Could Talk

If trees could talk and we could listen, would we be wiser?  This 10-module, middle school curriculum created by the Forest History Society shows that we must understand the history of forests in order to shape the future.

The Educator’s Reference Desk

This group of environmental lesson plans covers topic like deforestation, pollution, recycling and biodiversity. The website as a whole gives resources not only on environmental topics, but on teaching styles, creative classroom management and interactivity.

Michigan Forests Forever

The use and management of Michigan's forest is critical to the future well-being of not only Michigan residents, but is integrated to the health and well-being of North America and the rest of the world.  Good forestry provides some of the finest examples of "thinking globally and acting locally" that our State has to offer. The "Michigan Forests Forever" curriculum heightens the awareness among students about the vital connection between people and forests.  While it is true that "forests don't need people", it is equally true that "people need forests". 

Electronic Naturalists

This ongoing educational curriculum from the Roger Tory Peterson Institute is updated weekly with new content and now contains over 275 different units that focus on the life cycles, growth and predator/prey relationships of plants and animals.

Project Learning Tree

Project Learning Tree is an award winning, broad-based environmental education program for educators and students in Pre K - grade 12. PLT helps students learn HOW to think, not WHAT to think, about the environment. PLT, a program of the American Forest Foundation, is one of the most widely used environmental education programs in the United States and abroad.

A Tree for Every Child

The "A Tree for Every Child" project is a hands-on and flexible environmental education program that allows students to see how practical action can create a better world. The project allows you to teach your students the benefits and rewards of planting trees that become part of America’s forests.

Project WILD

Project WILD is one of the most widely-used conservation and environmental education programs among educators of students in kindergarten through high school. It is based on the premise that young people and educators have a vital interest in learning about our natural world. Emphasizing wildlife because of its intrinsic value, Project WILD addresses the need for human beings to develop as responsible citizens of our planet.

Air Pollution: What’s the Solution?

Welcome to Air Pollution: What's the Solution? an educational project for students, grades 6 - 12, that uses online real time data to guide student discovery of the science behind the causes and effects of outdoor air pollution.

Wetland Ecosystems

The Wetland Ecosystems curriculum by Ducks unlimited contains nine lesson plans including hands-on and interactive activities, and resource materials for use both in and outside the classroom. Units include adaptations, life cycles, food webs, interactions, environmental stress and conservation using wetland communities to illustrate concepts.

The original curriculum is for 4th-6th graders, but there are two additional units for 7th - 8th graders as well as high school students.

Journey North

Journey North engages students in a global study of wildlife migration and seasonal change. Students share their own field observations with classmates across North America. They track the coming of spring through the migration patterns of monarch butterflies, robins, hummingbirds, whooping cranes, gray whales, bald eagles— and other birds and mammals; the budding of plants; changing sunlight; and other natural events.

TEACH: Environment

TEACH: Environment explores the environment of the Great Lakes region, which is blessed with huge forests and wilderness areas, rich agricultural land, hundreds of tributaries and thousands of smaller lakes, and extensive mineral deposits. Environmental issues of concern range from threats to divert water out of the Great Lakes basin to the introduction of nonindigenous invasive species and airborne toxics into the basin. Protection of water quality and sustainable development remain long-term goals.

Leopold Education Project

The Leopold Education Project (LEP) is an innovative, interdisciplinary, critical thinking, conservation and environmental education curriculum based on the classic writings of the renowned conservationist, Aldo Leopold. LEP teaches about humanity's ties to the natural environment in the effort to conserve and protect the earth's natural resources.

Michigan Environmental Education Curriculum Support

The Michigan Environmental Education Curriculum Support (MEECS) contains five Michigan-specific units which provide an opportunity for students in grades 4-9 to learn about  Michigan's economy and environment through outstanding, inquiry oriented, data-based lessons in science and social studies. The units can be used individually, adopted into a school's multi-year science curricula, or combined to form the basis for an integrated science course.

Project WET

Project WET coordinators deliver informative, interactive, and fun Project WET professional development workshops to a variety of educators. Project WET offers advanced thematic and investigative workshops exploring wetlands, ground water, water conservation, watersheds, water monitoring, water history and other water resource topics.