EnvironmentalUnits/Lessons K-12

Encourage environmental stewardship (preserving, conserving, repairing, and enhancing the environment) through awareness, problem identification, problem solving, and team building, focused around an environmental service project. Use these teacher-created LTG lessons that provide step-by-step instructions and infuse knowledge, skills, and practice of philanthropy into academic content. The LTG unit overviews include a focus question, a service experience suggestion, overview of the lessons included, subjects, and issue area. These lessons can serve as a foundation for a student-centered approach. Search for any of theseunits/lessons below and more on

Grades K-2

  • Community Collaboration – Beautify Neighborhoods
  • Earth Keeper
  • Environment: Sustaining Our World – K-2
  • Flowers and Beautiful World – Monarch Butterfly
  • Go, Johnny, Go and Johnny Be Good (Johnny Appleseed)
  • Growing Our Future
  • Making the World a More Beautiful Place
  • Our Class, Our Earth
  • Our Land
  • Phil’s Garden of Good
  • Saving the Monarch
  • Talking Trees
  • The Four R’s (Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, RESPECT!)
  • This Land is Our Land
  • Watch Me Grow
  • Water Makes Our World Go ‘Round
  • What’s All the Commotion in the Ocean

Grades 3-5

  • Building a Mini-Park and Bird Sanctuary
  • Cool Kids Compost
  • Earth Connections
  • Environment: Sustaining Our World (3-5)
  • Mother Earth Connections
  • My Water, Your Water, Our Water
  • Nature and You
  • Philanthropy – A Day at the Beach
  • Pitch In – A Philanthropic Puppet Project
  • Pollution Is Not a Solution
  • Rivers from the Common Good
  • Sand, Sand, Everywhere Sand
  • Sharing Our World
  • Stewardship and the Rain Forest
  • The Heat is On: A Unit on Concerning Global Warming
  • The Joy of a Garden
  • Three R’s to Environmental Stewardship
  • Watershed S.O.S. (Saving our Sources)

Grades 6-8

  • Alternative Energy Sources
  • Are You a River Keeper?
  • Earth: The Source of Resources
  • Environment: Sustaining Our World (6-8)
  • Global Garbage
  • It’s Goin’ Down: The Rain Forest
  • Litter and Environmental Stewardship
  • Oil Changes Everything
  • One Person’s Trash
  • Our Air: The Quest for Quality
  • Out on a Limb
  • Pick Up a Litter Bit
  • Pollution Sollutions
  • Save a Drop for Me
  • Take a Breath Now
  • This Land Is Our Land – Flourish or Perish?
  • Tulipmania – Growing Flowers to Share
  • Water Resources and the Role of the Independent Sector
  • Watershed S.O.S. (Saving Our Sources)
  • Water – Where Has It Gone?
  • We Are Guardians of the Earth
  • Where’s the Sand?
  • Who Will Care for the Water?
  • You Light Up My Life

Grades 9-12

  • Air Pollution and Asthma
  • Air Today, Air Tomorrow
  • Be the Change: Environment
  • Climate Change Challenge
  • Environment: Sustaining Our World (9-12)
  • Environmental Groups and the Three Economic Sectors
  • Growing an Environmental Steward
  • Landscape Legacies
  • Pondering the Impermeable
  • Respecting the Environment
  • Responsible Energy Use
  • To Recycle or Not to Recycle? That Shouldn’t Even Be a Question?
  • Whose Responsibility Is It?