Math Awareness Month, Grades K-5
2013: Theme: Mathematics of Sustainability
Curriculum resources, including lesson plans, background reading, printables and video, for grades preK-5 address the 2013 Math Awareness Month theme: Mathematics of Sustainability.
Lesson Plans
Where Do Apples Go? (
PDF, 800 KB, 6 pgs.)
Students in grades K-2 sort and categorize materials made by nature and materials made by people. They apply concepts of statistics and data analysis.
Ocean Market
K-12 students identify consumer goods that come from the ocean, identify their origin, and calculate their cost.
Down the Drain
4-8 students collect data on water usage around the world, compare it to their own, and devise a plan to use less.
Lesson Sets
Closing the Loop: Exploring Integrated Waste Management and Resource Conservation
A cross-curricular program of 50 lessons to help K-6 students discover and nurture an environmental ethic and stewardship for natural resources. Activities focus on solid waste and environmental awareness.
Activities about Climate Change
K-5 students consider their own impact on climate change.
K-12 Exemplary Lessons Developed for TerraCycle
Mathematics of Planet Earth
K-12 and higher curriculum materials.
Weather Scope: An Investigative Study of Weather and Climate
Students in grades 5-10 use hands-on activities and real-time data investigations to study factors that affect weather and climate. Lessons, activities, teacher guide, and resources.
Activities
Explore
K-5 quizzes and challenges.
Ollie’s World
K-8 interactive sustainability resources.
Ecological Footprint Quiz
Answers to 27 easy questions provide an estimate of land and ocean area required to sustain a student’s annual consumption and waste output. Students in grades 4-12 can compare their Ecological Footprints to others’ and learn how to reduce their impact.
The Cloud Institute - EfS Reality Check
Are you educating for sustainability? This professional development tool will help school administrators and faculty assess their efforts.
Background Resources
Story of Stuff Project
Podcasts and resources for K-5.
Global Footprints
K-5 students explore the connection between their lives and the lives of others around the world and discover the need to work together to protect the planet.
EPA Students
K-12 games, quizzes, homework resources, and teacher resources.
Related Resources
The official website for Math Awareness Month. It includes theme essays, reports, curriculum materials, K-16 links, and games.
Energy Hog
This website has separate areas for adults and for students. In the kids’ section, teachers will find two guides, one for them and one for students, scavenger hunt, coloring book, posters, and light switch covers. Hogbusters Training Camp for kids provides a handbook, training games, bonus game, and more. Grades 4-6.
Professional Development
Teaching and Learning for a Sustainable Future
Four modules provide professional development for student teachers, teachers, curriculum developers, education policy makers, and authors of educational materials.
Climate Literacy & Energy Awareness Network
A resource for teachers on how to teach climate and energy literacy.
Climate Change Resource Center
Includes video courses on carbon emissions, carbon storage, and climate. Professional Development.
The Communicating and Learning About Global Climate Change ( PDF, 3.5 MB, 32 pgs.)
An abbreviated guide for teaching climate change. Professional Development.
The Green Changemakers
Training manuals and education resources on sustainability. Professional Development.
Games & Interactives
Games, Quizzes and Other Cool Stuff!
Some resources are off the EPA website.
Kids Are Green
Games, coloring book, fact sheets.
Exploring the Environment
“Twenty-five online modules put students in problem-based learning scenarios. In one module, students predict the impact of increased carbon dioxide on the wheat yield in Kansas. In another, they predict weather 48 hours in advance. Topics include coral reefs, climate change, the Everglades, mountain gorillas, rainforests, volcanoes, water quality, and ozone depletion. (A NASA-sponsored project.)”
Activities about Climate Change
Climate change, carbon dioxide, food choices, case studies, and food stories for students in grades 4-6.
Play the Fish Game Online
Play online or in the classroom. 4-12.
Florida Solar Energy Center Curricula
Curriculum materials for K-12 on alternative energy.
Solar Energy Module
Grades 3-6 go on a race using only solar panels and batteries in the Solar Powered Race activity.
Printables
Video
AAAS Climate Change Movie (12:07)
Can viewed online or downloaded
The Story of Stuff Project
8 videos
last updated: April 1, 2013
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