Eatons Hill State School - School Tasks - An Interest in the Future

Animal Adaptations	How do animals adapt to their environments? Includes worksheets.
Balancing the Options: Tourist Resort	Learning Object. Help a local council to investigate community attitudes to a proposed tourist resort. Requires Curriculum Exchange password off-campus.
Create a Wetland Scene	From National Geographic.
Ecological Footprint	Calculator to find out what a school's ecological footprint is. Link to teachers' notes.
Ecosystems - Preservation	Includes using TLF Learning Objects. Australian.
EEK! Teaching Activities	Variety of teaching activities from Environmental Education for Kids.
Environmental History Timeline	Useful for looking at how human activity has affected the environment.
Environmental Issues in the Polar Regions	From National Geographic.
Environmental Lesson Plans	A list of lessons from Teach-Nology.
Fish Stocks	Learning Object. Assess fish stocks for a fishing industry. Requires Curriculum Exchange password off-campus.
Habitats of the World	Investigate the different biomes over three lessons.
Helping the Environment Activities for Grades K to 8	Very long list of activity ideas.
Human Impact	Learning Object. Work through a series of four learning objects about human influence on the environment. 1. How people affect the ecology of a pond. 2. How to restore the ecological balance of a pond. 3. Environmental benefits of recycling and different ways to dispose of plastic bags. 4. Ecological problems caused by introduced animals. Requires Curriculum Exchange password off-campus.
Keep Off the Reef!	Uses an article from the New York Times to begin an investigation on how global warming is affecting coral reefs.
Persuasive Essay: Environmental Issues	From ReadWriteThink. Three lessons.
Special Places: Eco-lessons from the National Parks in Atlantic Canada	Lesson about the cumulative effects. Background notes included.