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Curriculum
Check out GEF's free standards-based lessons to help plan your National Green Week activities! For even more lessons on sustainability, please search in our Sustaianbility Lesson Clearinghouse.PreK-2
- Making Bricks
- It's Easy Being Green
- A Clean City (This lesson takes two class periods)
- Habitat Hot Spots
- It's In Your Hands
Grades 3-5
- Communityscape: Our Build Environment
- An Environmental Collage
- How Green in your Community?
- Draft-o-Meter (This lesson takes two class periods)
- Build a Green Roof
Middle School
- Passive Solar Design for Homes (This lesson takes two class periods)
- Passive Solar Design for Homes Lab Activity (This lesson takes two class periods)
- Sustainable Materials
- Design a Neighborhood (This lesson requires 6-7 class periods over the course of two weeks.)
- Become a Green Sleuth!
- Lichens as Air Quality Indicators (This is a two week project)
- Our Air: The Quest for Quality
- It's Up in the Air!
High School
- Efficient Water Technologies
- Model Cities and You (This lesson takes two class periods)
- Humans and the Environment: A Story of Change
- Cost Effectiveness of a Sustainable Building (This lesson takes two class periods)
- Green Inside, Outside and Above: Green and Cool Roofs
- What Makes a Green Building & Product?
- The BEAM Project: Building Efficient Architectural Models
- Renewable Energy Guide for Buildings