Archives: Lesson Plans
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Educator Guide: Does Nature Have Rights?
Explore how legal innovation, cultural values, and grassroots activism intersect to redefine humanity’s relationship with the natural world—offering a model for global conservation efforts. This educator guide supports classroom discussion, NGSS-aligned learning, and hands-on opportunities for student engagement.
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Educator Guide: Coffee for Water
Explore shows how collaboration, sustainable agriculture, and conservation can work hand in hand—benefiting both people and the natural systems they depend on. This educator guide supports classroom discussion, NGSS-aligned learning, and hands-on opportunities for student engagement.
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Educator Guide: The Beautiful Undammed
Explore how cultural leadership, scientific collaboration, and ecological resilience can revive an entire watershed and strengthen the connection between people and place. This educator guide supports classroom discussion, NGSS-aligned learning, and hands-on opportunities for student engagement.
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Educator Guide: Beaver Fever
Explore how conservationists, landowners, and scientists are working to reintroduce beavers to Great Britain and restore the wetlands and waterways they once shaped. This educator guide supports classroom discussion, NGSS-aligned learning, and hands-on opportunities for student engagement.
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Educator Guide: Woodpecker Wars
Explore how collaboration among unlikely partners can protect a keystone species, revitalize critical habitat, and demonstrate that conservation success is possible when science and community work hand in hand. This educator guide supports classroom discussion, NGSS-aligned learning, and hands-on opportunities for student engagement.
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Educator Guide: Canine Conservationists
Explore how conservation teams in Australia are training dogs to protect wildlife by locating invasive foxes and tracking endangered koalas. This educator guide supports classroom discussion, NGSS-aligned learning, and hands-on opportunities for student engagement.
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Educator Guide: Gardener to Guardian
Explore how Mary Reynolds’ ARK movement empowers people everywhere to transform ordinary gardens into havens for native plants and wildlife. This educator guide supports classroom discussion, NGSS-aligned learning, and hands-on opportunities for student engagement.
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Educator Guide: Vertical Meadows
Explore how engineer Alistair Law’s Vertical Meadow project bolts native wildflowers onto city buildings to create food and habitat for pollinators and birds. This educator guide supports classroom discussion, NGSS-aligned learning, and hands-on opportunities for student engagement.
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Educator Guide: The Big Oyster
Explore how New Yorkers are working to restore wild oysters and revive New York Harbor's ecosystem, and how these efforts protect both people and wildlife.
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Educator Guide: Salamander of the Gods
Explore how scientists, farmers, fishers, and even Dominican nuns are working to save Mexico’s endangered salamanders—the axolotl and the achoque—by restoring habitats and engaging local communities. This educator guide supports classroom discussion, NGSS-aligned learning, and hands-on opportunities for student engagement.
