Education

Lesson plans

Books

Online resources

 

Lesson Plans 

Water Use & Treatment

• Understanding your Water: From Source to Tap and Back
•  Hands-on Activity: Creating Mini Wastewater Treatment Plants
• Waste Water Treatment, City of London, Canada
• Water and Sewage Treatment
• Treatment of Water​​
• Kids H2O Activities and H20 facts​

• Lake George Ecology Lesson Plan: Eutrophication: The Aging of a Lake
• Eutrophication, COSEE Mid-Atlantic​

Water Use & Food Production

• Exploring water footprints in food production
• How Much Water Do You Eat?, California Academy of Science
• Your Hidden Water Footprint: Defining a Problem to Find a Solution, California Academy of Science

Food Waste

• Reducing Food Loss Starting on the Farm
• ​Food waste education
• Address the Excess - A Recipe for Cutting Food Waste
• Food Waste Lesson Plans (Purdue Univeristy)
• Food Waste Audit, California Academy of Science​
• Food Waste and Sustainability Investigation
• Food Waste Warrior Toolkit, WWF

 

Books

• International children book on water cycle and sustainable use
  Portuguese version book 1, book 2 & book 3; Spanish version; English version; French version

 

Online resources

Sustainability

• Green Living Tools
• InTeGrate - Interdisciplinary Teaching about Earth for a Sustainable Future
• Zero Garbage Challenge
• Earth Overshoot day
• Waste calculator (Covanta)
• How big is your environmental footprint? (WWF calculator)
• Sustainability Now! (Sustainable Systems Resaerch Foundation)
• PBS: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle! (alternative link)

Water Use and Conservation

• 100+ ways to conserve water
• 50 Amazing Water Conservation Facts you should know​
• What is the Environmental Impact of Feeding the World?, California Academy of Sciences
• Water Conservation Facts (National geographic)
• ​What's your water footprint?

Food Waste

• How to Reduce Your Fast Food Trash 
      video episode 1
  ​    video episode 2​​​
• Food Waste Calculator
• Food waste managemetn calculator (EPA)
• Eatocracy (CNN)
• End Food waste
• Food Waste (German & French)
• SAVE FOOD: Global Initiative on Food Loss and Waste Reduction (FAO)
• Food wase footprint (FAO)
• Crop Protection (European Crop Agency)
• Food Waste Reduction Alliance
• Zero Waste Home (You tube)
• Zero Waste (You tube, Spanish subtitles)
• Food Waste (WWF)
• Solving the global food waste scandal (video, WWF)
• The Wildlife and Food connection (WWF)
• Food waste quiz (WWF)
• Tools for preventing and diverting wasted food (EPA)
• EarthFit Reducing Waste Challenge