Create a PSA

Students work in groups to create, perform and videotape a public service announcement for television about one action that people can take to lower emissions. Subjects: Arts (Theater Arts), English Language Arts, Geography, Science, World Studies, Humanities and...

Process Graphics

Students choose an ecological or geographical process or system they read about in the book and create a detailed graphic to explain it. For example, they could create a flow chart of the carbon cycle or the hydrologic cycle, or a diagram of thermohaline circulation,...

Adjectives for a Unique Me

Have the students create adjectives from their own names. The students should come up with an adjective for each letter in their names. They can have fun coming up with the adjectives that they think best describe them. For an added art activity, have students create...

The Importance of Rules

Grandma shares the first rule of the garden with Tess: “Not everything in the garden is ready for picking just yet …. Rule number one is that you must always take good care of our garden.” What do students think Grandma means by this rule? How might you take care of...

Letter Writing

Have students compose a letter to the youth interviewed. Have them conduct further research prior to writing the letter and devise questions and topics of interest to discuss. Curriculum Connections: English, Writing (Letters)