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FREE FOR K-12 TEACHERS, STUDENTS, AND DISTRICTS
Sustainability Foundations: Plants, Animals and Our World
Teaching Sustainability in the Classroom
- Innovating for a Healthy Life
- Positively Impacting Climate Change
- Protecting Healthy Biodioversity
- Sustaining Global Resources
Overview
We know that our world is made up of systems, and these interconnected systems are dependent on each other to stay healthy. The systems in our world are like a community. When everyone in the group is doing well, it has a positive impact on everyone else. Conversely, when someone is not doing well, it can affect everyone in a negative way.
After taking Sustainability Foundations: Plants, Animals, and Our World, students will walk away with an understanding that every choice we make impacts others. Learners will explore the interconnectedness of environmental systems and how to make informed decisions to improve the health of those systems.
Plants, Animals and Our World covers topics like human health, climate change, global resource constraints, and biodiversity. This course will use science and social studies content to build an understanding that we are all responsible for our planet.
Sustainability Foundations: Plants, Animals, and Our World is offered to K12 schools at no cost thanks to our partnership with Beyond Meat.Â
At-A-Glance
Grade Level
5-8Length
4 lessons; 5-10 minutes each: 30-40 minutes total
Languages
Curriculum Fit
Science, Health, Social Studies, Advisory
Learners explore resource constraints, how sustainable systems thrive within their natural limits, and the cycles of common resources.
Learners explore the importance of biodiversity, the balance of all living organisms, and how humans play a specific role in maintaining healthy biodiversity.
Learners explore the natural balance of greenhouse gases and gas absorption on the planet and what it will take to contribute to restoration and regeneration.
Learners explore the complexity of needs required to keep human life healthy and the importance of caring for a shared resource set to make a healthy life possible for everyone.
Learners explore resource constraints, how sustainable systems thrive within their natural limits, and the cycles of common resources.
Learners explore the importance of biodiversity, the balance of all living organisms, and how humans play a specific role in maintaining healthy biodiversity.
Learners explore the natural balance of greenhouse gases and gas absorption on the planet and what it will take to contribute to restoration and regeneration.
Learners explore the complexity of needs required to keep human life healthy and the importance of caring for a shared resource set to make a healthy life possible for everyone.