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Education Hub

The resources you and your school need to effectively teach climate change.

These comprehensive resources are built around the official NJ Student Learning Standards and expand on the work of the New Jersey Department of Education.

Teaching Resources

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  • In this lesson, students will explore how climate change, among other factors, threatens thousands of endangered languages with extinction and will learn about the gravity of the issue.
  • Students will explore case studies of language revival efforts in Hawai'i and Northern Australia and also of the Hebrew language, understand the connection between language and climate change, and complete a video skit interviewing people about endangered languages.
Grade 9-12 | ap-college
Subject Geography,English Language Arts
Resource Type Lesson Plans

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  • This guide explains how to host a National Public Lands Day event and includes ideas for event activities.
  • This guide is for hosting your own event for National Public Lands Day, but these activities can be implemented in the classroom without an event.
  • In the activities, students will learn about the importance of and threats facing pollinators, the importance of biodiversity, and the elements of biodiversity that exist in their environments.
Grade 6-8 | 9-12
Subject Biology
Resource Type Activity - Outdoors

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  • This resource includes two games where students model photosynthesis and the food chain.
  • Students will understand how plants convert solar energy, water, and carbon dioxide into energy and oxygen, how energy moves through the food chain, and the impacts of climate change on the food chain.
  • Students will use data from the Snowshoe Hare in Wisconsin as an example of climate change impacts.
Grade 3-5 | 6-8
Subject Biology
Resource Type Lesson Plans

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  • In this interactive story map, students will read about Echo the Bat as he is born, learns about life from his mother, and migrates through Arizona to hibernate.
  • Students will follow Echo's journey on a map from his habitat, through Phoenix, the Grand Canyon, Roosevelt Lake, Yuma,  and to a cave outside Tucson, AZ where he and his mother hibernate.
Grade 3-5
Subject Biology,Geography,English Language Arts
Resource Type Ebooks

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  • In this collection of six lessons and two extension activities, students will research the Grand River Revitalization and Restoration Project, understanding the positives and negatives associated with the project's proposals.
  • Students will understand the impact of the project on the local economy, neighborhood access to the river, and native and non-native species populations.
Grade 6-8 | 9-12
Subject Biology,Geography
Resource Type Lesson Plans

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  • This interactive report discusses the birds in Michigan threatened by climate change, details the changes in their habitats and how those changes are affecting the various types of birds, and gives informaiton about climate policy in Michigan and the climate threats to people and birds in Michigan.
  • Students can manipulate the bird list by changing the warming scenario, risk category, or season.
Grade 6-8 | 9-12
Subject Science,Biology
Resource Type Scientific Reports

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  • This interview features Dave Alexander of Muskegon, Michigan as he describes Lake Muskegon as an integral and defining piece of his community.
  • Students will learn the importance of the lake, the ecosystem services it provides, the environmental issues it has faced, and the economic activity centered around the waterfront.
Grade 6-8 | 9-12
Subject Biology,Geography
Resource Type Podcasts

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  • This collection of lessons focuses on the Great Salt Lake and extreme environments, providing lessons about the water cycle, food webs, biological adaptations, and ecosystem challenges.
  • Some of the activities include creating condensation, making a bird feeder, testing out different bird beak adaptations, exploring salt deposition, and coloring in a food web.
Grade 3-5
Subject Science
Resource Type Lesson Plans

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  • This collection of lessons is a companion for the book Energy Detectives, where students will explore how energy is wasted around the home, why this is a problem, and what can be done to solve it.
  • This resource includes 3-8 lessons for each grade, in which students will have an interactive reading with the book, explore the warming effects of the sun, make observations about light, write opinion letters, host an eco-friendly science fair, create climate change art, explore thermal energy transfer, design energy-efficient homes, and plan a conservation project.
Grade k-2 | 3-5
Subject Science,English Language Arts
Resource Type Lesson Plans

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  • This article covers the environmental and societal consequences of less ice on the Great Lakes.
  • Students will learn the importance of lake ice for cultural activities, animal habitats, and greenhouse gas production.
Grade 6-8 | 9-12
Subject Biology,Earth and Space Sciences
Resource Type Articles/Websites

Professional Learning

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