Let's create continuous conversations about climate change education: Spreading the Sediment of Science!

Our Shared Environmental History

Provided by: Population Education
Lesson Plans Grades 9-12

Synopsis

  • In this lesson, students will research events throughout environmental history, creating a timeline of events and analyzing the cause-and-effect relationships between events.
  • Students will understand how environmental disasters influence environmental action and evaluate the effectiveness of Earth Day.
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Subjects: Earth and Space Sciences, History
Authors: Population Education
Region: United States
Languages: English

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Population Education
Population Education provides K-12 teachers with innovative, hands-on lesson plans and professional development to teach about human population growth and its effects on the environment and human well-being. Human population has grown from 1 billion to 8 billion in just over 200 years, so it is critical to examine human impacts on wildlife, climate, and natural resources while working toward equality and justice for the world’s people. Through memorable, standards-aligned classroom activities like simulations, cooperative challenges, and debate, Population Education inspires students to tackle a variety of real-world problems and to become positively engaged in their communities as the next generation of leaders and policy makers.