Sustainability
Lesson Plans

These sustainability lessons were developed by teachers from all different grade levels and disciplines during the 2010 and 2011 Summer Institute for Educators, presented by BLS YouthCAN in partnership with Children’s Environmental Literacy Foundation (CELF).

1. •Systems and Tragedy of the Commons
   

2. •Energy Audit Project. Energy Efficiency in Your Home
   

3. •The Systems of Equation. Energy Costs
   

4. •A Global Perspective on Nutrition & Fitness. Unit 1
   

5. •A Global Perspective on Nutrition & Fitness. Unit 2
   

6. •Reframing Current Sustainability Lens
   

7. •Industrial Revolution
   

8. •Man, Mining, Sustainability Unit
   

9. •Importance of Water
   

10. •Freshwater Analysis
    

11. •Food & Sustainability Unit
    

12. •World in 1492 Article
    

13. •Life Science. Needs of Living Things
    

14. •Pongase en la Onda Verde
    

15. •Cajas de Carton
    

16. •Nutrients in an Estuary Lesson
    

17. •Nature and Industry. In Wordsworth's Tintern Abbey
    

18. •Reframing Curriculum Joy Luck Club Lesson
    

19. •Teaching Charles Dickens Great Expectations
    

20. •World in 1492 Essay Assignment
    

21. •Sustainability Journals
    

22. •Combian Encounter Lesson Plan
    

23. •Columbus Controversy Project
    

24. •Columbus Comparison Essay Assignment
    

25. •Maintain the Earth Project
    

26. •The Ecological Footprint- Scatter Plots
    

27. •The Pearl (Lesson 1)
    

28. •The Pearl (Lesson 2)
    

29. •Project Utopia-The Giver
    

30. •Let the Circle Be Unbroken
    

31. •Addendum-Lesson Notes