A lesson on the impact of food choices Everybody eats, but how often do we stop to think about how the food on our plates got there and about the impacts of that food on people, animals, and the planet? This activity encourages participants to explore how sample ingredients in our food might affect the…
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Using the five gyres of plastic pollution as a springboard, this activity encourages participants to explore the issues surrounding trash in our oceans and to develop solutions.
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Find books, articles, videos, lesson plans & more on issues related to health, public health, environmental health, and environmental justice to help you teach and/or learn more about these topics. Curated by the Institute for Humane Education.
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Zoe Weil is a blogger for Psychology Today, and we share her blog posts here. Like many people, I became unexpectedly emotional when I received the COVID vaccine. I’d been chatting with the women next to me in the long line snaking toward the entrance to the arena where the vaccines were being administered, feeling…
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Find books, articles, videos, lesson plans & more on issues related to environmental racism and environmental justice to help you teach and/or learn more about these topics. Curated by the Institute for Humane Education.
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What Do the Primary Causes of Death in the US Have to Do With the Dead Zone in the Gulf of Mexico? What are the biggest killers of people in the U.S. today? What is the dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico? How can these two seemingly disparate problems possibly be connected? This unit…
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Students will investigate the “birth place” of their clothes, learn about how those clothes are connected to the oppression and exploitation of children and women, and consider positive solutions. Recommended for grades 6-12. Time: 2-3 60 minute classes, and longer for solutions projects
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Find books, articles, videos, lesson plans and other resources related to animal experimentation, vivisection, testing and dissection issues to help you teach and/or learn more about these topics.
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Find books, articles, websites, films, lesson plans and other resources about issues related to plastic, plastic waste and plastic pollution to help you teach and/or learn more about this topic.
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When we buy things, how can we do so in ways that do the most good and least harm? Use resources and articles/essays like these to help you think about what you buy and to find products and companies working to be a bit more ethical.
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