Visual Learning: A Slow, Press-ious Process With this YES! lesson plan, try to truly understand an image, its message, and why it’s interesting (or not). In this case it's all about local, sustainable farming. Jing Fong Jul 21, 2010
Resources from The Food Project The Food Project, based in the Boston area, focuses on sustainable agriculture and youth leadership, and graciously shares many of its manuals, activities, and curricula for free. Jing Fong Apr 19, 2013
How Does Nature Do That? Former park ranger-turned-professor Margo Farnsworth believes that biomimicry is one of the most important new tools for sustainability. It gets her students outside and unleashes their scientific and entrepreneurial minds. This is Margo's story. Margo Farnsworth Feb 07, 2013
Net Zero’s Net Worth: How Renewable Energy Is Rescuing Schools from Budget Cuts Educators across the country are finding millions of dollars in savings through cheap and simple forms of renewable energy. Erin L. McCoy Nov 05, 2012
What Climate-Driven Hurricane Sandy Teaches about Cooperation It’s 3 a.m. and the wind’s howling. Do you know your neighbors? Sarah van Gelder Nov 01, 2012
YES! Recommends: Nourish Nourish is an education initiative that celebrates food and community. Its food curriculum and lesson plans, short films and discussion guides, and powerful action ideas will help young people and their families, schools, and communities think about the food they eat and what they can do to make healthy choices for themselves and planet Earth. Jing Fong Oct 18, 2012
Visual Learning: To Dye For This Visual Learning lesson will get your students thinking about where their clothes come from and how colorful fabric is made. Idil Levitas Dec 14, 2011
Visual Learning: We Are the 99% This Visual Learning lesson will get your students thinking about how much information they want to know about where their food comes from. Idil Levitas Nov 21, 2011
YES! Recommends: Creative Change Educational Solutions Creative Change's comprehensive approach to curriculum transformation places food systems, renewable energy, urban revitalization, and other sustainability issues at the center of education innovation and reform. Jing Fong Nov 21, 2011
Visual Learning: Boom! This Visual Learning lesson will get your students thinking about the devastation that oil spills can have on human and marine life. Idil Levitas Oct 28, 2011
The Innocence Project and Prison Food Use the Innocence Project’s interactive resources to understand the causes of wrongful convictions and exonerations, and see how your school's cafeteria food measures up to prison food with this tell-it-like-it is infographic. Jing Fong Aug 02, 2011
YES! Recommends: Jane Goodall’s Roots & Shoots Roots & Shoots animal community service-learning curriculum offers lessons plans, sample campaigns, and resources for K-12 teachers. Access free, downloadable classrooms tools including lessons on hope, endangered species, and multiple intelligences. Jing Fong Mar 30, 2011
Visual Learning: Out of the Blue This Visual Learning lesson will get your students thinking about where their water comes from, and the effectiveness (or not) of public demonstrations. Callie Recknagel Jan 14, 2011
Who Participated in No Impact Week? Meet the Students! Meet six students who started the New Year tracking their trash, taking record-breaking showers, battling the bus system, and learning that green is the color for all seasons. Jing Fong Jan 20, 2011
