Your connector to free climate resources for all K-12 subjects. CELF partnered with SubjectToClimate to make high-quality sustainability and climate education resources more accessible to educators through SubjectToClimate’s online hubs. This partnership helps connect teachers to classroom-ready lessons, activities, and tools that support inquiry-based learning and real-world connections to environmental and climate topics. By sharing […]
by the Alliance to End Plastic Waste
Students will connect to their place through a sensory exploration of sight and sounds around them. They will discover nature through colors and visualize what they hear and how they are connected.
Build a connection to place while developing active listening skills by tuning into the sounds of nature, interpreting them, and expressing them back out through an interactive musical exercise.
A Michigan-based company, The Bear Factory, had a vision to offer a green product line that holds up to sustainability standards while also providing an opportunity to educate children on the importance of animal conservation and environmental sustainability. More than two years of research and development led to Plush for the Planet, a sustainable collection
Students will be able to identify and apply the Big Ideas of Sustainability in their place to help develop a sustainable mindset.
Students will analyze items in their backpacks and classroom and determine what they’re made of and what happens to those items after their use.
Students will be able to identify what a food desert is and where they exist in their place by using google maps and other research tools.
Students will use motor skills and creative thinking to construct their
own “do nothing” machine. This activity encourages little engineers
to express themselves, while parents help to draw connections and
awareness to stewardship, and repurposing our waste.
Our current food systems are vastly inefficient with food waste, rampant pesticide use, transport emissions, and agriculture runoff. Many communities live in food deserts with inadequate fresh produce, translating to inequitable health outcomes. Moonflower Farms is partnering with CELF to address these real world problems by using space age technology, hydroponics and sustainable city farming
Students choose a solution to address climate change, then groups propose their idea to the school campus, City of Houston City Council, and/or HISD Trustees (based upon the scope of their idea). Students use their research and writing skills to record a podcast. Students share with audience members their podcast and survey (to assess the
