100 Ways to Teach Green

A recent OnlineDegreePrograms.org blog post offers 100 “tips, tools, and resources” for teaching sustainability in “every kind of classroom.” The article links to dozens of useful websites that offer a wide variety of resources for teachers wishing to incorporate sustainability into classroom curricula.

Divided between online resources for teachers, internet offerings for K-12 students, websites aimed at college students, and links to green organizations, the article’s links include both well-known organizations (The Nature Conservancy, the National Geographic Society) and those that may be less widely known, though no less vital (Facing the Future, Roots and Shoots). The article also offers a valuable list of green games and tools online (LogiCity, WolfQuest); a diverse selection of open courseware classes (MIT’s Ecologies of Construction, Notre Dame’s Environmental Philosophy); and a selection of online lectures on sustainability, by many eminent figures whose work is helping drive the green movement forward.

The article offers a helpful list of ways that K-12 teachers can reduce the impact their classrooms make on the natural environment, including the use of Power Point instead of paper; setting up a worm bin; and holding a cell phone and toner drive.

The article also provides a list of ways that college educators can also help the environment in daily practice, through such large and small moves as assigning electronic textbooks, encouraging volunteering for the environment, and emailing the course syllabus rather than printing it.

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Chris Timmerman
Contributing Writer
Green Education Services
www.greenedu.com

Comments

[Eliza Winters]

These are awesome ideas on eco-friendly teaching. There are some resource too like lecture captures that allow student to digitally record lectures. I love this idea as it saves so much paper by putting everything in a digital form. It also allows the student to focus more on exactly what is being said rather than writing notes as fast as they can.