High School Earth Day Resources

"Our goal is not just an environment of clean air and water and scenic beauty. The objective is an environment of decency, quality and mutual respect for all other human beings and all other living creatures."                                                                                                       -Gaylord Nelson, Founder of Earth Day

Grab and Go Resources

Here's a 4J-developed slide deck that could work for SS/LA and probably Science, too.

An Earth Day presentation made by the NEHS Eco Team

Make a copy to share with your students

Designed to go with the Earth Day Presentations

An audience for your story.


Lesson designed for students to identify and tell their climate stories

Great tips on how to talk about climate with others.

This Changes Everything (Beautiful Solutions) emphasizes  global solutions, explores values, theories, and stories of solution-oriented action for healing (Ethnic Studies)

Buy, Use, Toss: A closer look at the things we buy

This unit is correlated with national science and social studies standards and will lead your students through an exploration of the system of producing and consuming goods that is called the materials economy. 

Integrated Sci/SS Curriculum for grades 9-12 in English and French

               PBS Global Warming:                The Signs and the Science

60 minute documentary 

Chemistry worksheet, key, additional thoughts

Drawdown , ECOChallenge and Our Children's Trust - Climate ACTION

Drawdown 101 Challenge

Invitation to Churchill Drawdown Challenge

ARE YOU A STUDENT AT CHURCHILL?

JOIN CHURCHILL'S DRAWDOWN ECOCHALLENGE TEAM



Create Your Own Drawdown Challenge Team

WATCH THE VIDEO (LINKED ABOVE) TO GET STARTED

Create Your Own School Team (or join the one that's created).  

Start one for your friend group.

Drawdown Ecochallenge is a fun and social way to take measurable action on the top solutions to global warming.  

9:05 minute video on local teens and Our Children's Trust Lawsuit (Juliana v. US)


This month, the National Science Teachers Association is releasing the Kiss the Ground movie curriculum along with the free 45-minute long school-version of the film to over 250,000 science teachers.


This will be the first time drawdown, carbon biosequestration, and regeneration are taught in schools as part of an NSTA curriculum, and already 8,690 schools, parent-teachers and other learning institutions have registered and downloaded the free educational cut.