Please register here. TLC Credit: IS

Presenter(s): Laura Short, Senior Education Associate 

Description: Discover activities for grades 6-12 that cover a range of social and environmental topics including natural resource use trends, population ecology, and building sustainable communities. In this interactive session, educators will simulate managing a renewable resource, graph and analyze population data to identify species, and design an investigation of sustainability in their own communities, all while discussing strategies for using these activities in their own classrooms. All participants will leave with access to the full online library of K-12 lessons, Teaching Population, which includes more than 60 hands-on lesson plans and additional classroom resources that are great for social studies, geography, history, ecology, environmental science, and agricultural ed. 

Learning Goals: Cooperatively develop strategies for managing a limited resource. Analyze data sets for trends and apply observations to real life. Identify community values and design a qualitative study to evaluate sustainability in one's community.