Science

Visit the **InventNow.org Gallery** now and see the hundreds of inventions that have been submitted by some very imaginative kids!
 * Invent Now

Environmental and Outdoor Education in Minnesota
 * Environmental and Outdoor Education in Minnesota. MDE State Standards

The No Impact Project is an international, environmental, nonprofit project, founded in the spring of 2009. It was inspired by the No Impact Man book, film, and blog.
 * No Impact Project Lesson Plans

“Green schools” are better for students, teachers, the environment—and the bottom line, a [|report] released this month concludes.
 * 'Green Schools' Budgets and Students

Our mission is to build joyful community around children and be quickly accepted into public, private and home schools as a free, innovative, celebratory fitness and nutrition program, resonating with the child... and with the child's family. The goal is for the child to develop the love and habit of moving through space and to carry forward the power of muscular, nutritional and psychological well being.
 * Marathon Kids

Cool School Challenge The Cool School Challenge is a program of the Puget Sound Clean Air Agency, developed in collaboration with Redmond High School environmental science teacher Mike Town, and Puget Sound Energy’s Powerful Choices for the Environment program.

Reading Research Lesson Plan by Me.
 * Environmental Research Prezi

In this guide, we outline 10 big ideas for helping the planet, along with related resources to help you in the classroom. Ready to give up paper for a day or longer? How about launching a schoolwide campaign to reduce your school’s carbon footprint? Those are two projects you can do close to <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">home. If you’re looking for more global challenges, you’ll find those here, <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">too. Naturally, we suggest using technology to connect with like-minded <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">colleagues on projects that cross disciplines or even jump time zones
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">[[file:edutopia-think-green-resource-guide.pdf]]

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">**__School Lunches__** <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">January 13. 2011 Guidelines to be implemented Fall 2012. School Nutrition Association is fighting the new guidelines stating that 2012 is too soon, 10 years to cut sodium content is not achievable, and kids will be confused as to what they are eating and there won't be enough time for students to finish the increased requirement of fruits and vegetables. <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">The School Nutrition Association (SNA) today released a letter it sent to USDA that raises some big objections to Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack's proposed new rule for getting healthier foods into the National School Lunch and Breakfast Programs. The letter, from SNA president Nancy Rice, is the group's official position for the open comment period on the nutritional guidelines that Vilsack unveiled in January as part of the requirements of the [|Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act 2010] <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">. SNA is protesting that USDA is going too far, too fast with its changes to the program, which feeds more than 31 million children. <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Parents Educators & Advocates Connection for Healthy School Food <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Welcome to the PEACHSF website! We are parents, teachers, school administrators, healthcare professionals, and advocates for better school food in San Francisco. Since 2002, we’ve worked together to improve food in our public school cafeterias, vending machines, classroom parties and fundraising sales, and we want to share what we’ve learned along the way with others trying to make changes in their own communities.
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">[[file:Nutrition Standards in the National School Lunch and School Breakfast Programs 1.13.2011.pdf]]
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Obama Foodorama Story on the Subject

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">**__Food and Gardening__** <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">The Edible Schoolyard (ESY), a program of the Chez Panisse Foundation <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">, is a one-acre organic garden and kitchen classroom for urban public school students at Martin Luther King, Jr. Middle School in Berkeley, California. At ESY, students participate in all aspects of growing, harvesting, and preparing nutritious, seasonal produce. <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Classroom teachers and Edible Schoolyard educators integrate food systems concepts into the core curriculum. Students’ hands-on experience in the kitchen and garden fosters a deeper appreciation of how the natural world sustains us and promotes the environmental and social well-being of our school community. <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Gardening and plant-based learning open a door to discovery of the living world. It stimulates even as it focuses and calms. Within the school environment, a garden offers an unparalleled platform to help kids achieve learning goals in ways that are recommended by the National Science Standards and most state and local educational bodies. <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">A School Garden requires a child's intellectual, emotional and social engagement with things that must be measured, counted, weighed, arranged, planned and cared for. It can yield gratifying and often surprising results for you and your students.
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">The Edible Schoolyard
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">School Garden Wizard
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Kids Gardening

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">For more than 35 years, the National Gardening Association (NGA) has been working to renew and sustain the essential connection between people, plants, and the environment. As a nonprofit leader in plant-based education, our vision is to make available free educational plant-based materials, grants, and resources that speak to young minds, educators, youth and community organizations, and the general gardening public in five core areas; education, health and wellness, environmental stewardship, community development, and home gardening.

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">**__Water Themed__** <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Students observe the water cycle in action inside a mini solar still. The still consists of a <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">plastic tub filled with a layer of moist soil or sand, and sealed with cling wrap. Water <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">evaporates from the soil, condenses on the cling wrap and trickles to a point directly <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">above a cup. In a few hours on a hot day, the still will collect enough water for several <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">students to tast
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Water Still Activity

Water Lesson Plans Grades 6-8 Water Classroom Activities and Lesson Plans Compiled by Christy Pratt.
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Penn State Water Lesson Plans
 * Water Classroom Activities and Lesson Plans

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Kids and Teens: School Time: Science: Environment
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Open Directory Project: School Time: Science: Environment