Recommended Links
The following are links to recommended organizations and web sites that provide information on learning disabilities, ADHD, and other issues.
You can also see this list organized by type of organization, by focus, or by audience.
Edutopia: Education for the Ecosystem
This environmental issue of Edutopia's magazine includes a roster of green heroes, lesson plans, service-learning opportunities, the Go Green Database, and more.
Related lesson plans and websites for Earth Day, including history of the holiday and the Ecology Hall of Fame.
Reading Rockets: Environmental Family Literacy Bag
This Reading Rockets Activity Packet is designed to support reading activities at home. They have chosen a fiction and nonfiction book about the environment, appropriate for a first grade listening level, and included related activities to encourage some hands-on fun and learning.
National Geographic Kids: Plant a Garden
National Geographic describes kid-friendly steps for planting a garden.
National Geographic: Environment Resources
Multimedia video, photos, and articles about environmental topics including volcanoes and water use.
Scholastic: Earth Day Resources
Lessons, articles, and fun activities for students help promote environmental awareness for Earth Day and throughout the year.
PBS Teachers: Earth Day Activity Pack
Interactive, multimedia lesson plans on environmental topics from PBS Teachers.
Maya & Miguel: Every Day Is Earth Day
For a school Earth Day project, Maya, Miguel and their friends decide to clean up an old lot and plant a community garden. But as the deadline approaches, a rainstorm hits, turning the patch of dirt into a muddy mess. How will Maya get her friends out of the muck this time?
Seventh Generation: Earth Day Lesson Plans
For Earth Day, Seventh Generation has developed four lesson plans that teachers can use with their students. Three lessons help students investigate and understand how the products in their home can effect the indoor environment in which they spend much of their time. The fourth prepares them to gather information to use an online carbon footprint calculator.
Earth Day Network: Lesson Plans
The Earth Day Network offers lesson plans on topics including sustainability, climate, and energy.
TeacherVision: Earth Day Teacher Resources
Lessons, printables, and references available to teach about the environment. Topics include global warming, recycling, and pollution. (Free Trial available.)
Teach English, Teach About the Environment
This ESL curriculum guide from the Environmental Protection Agency includes lesson plans, vocabulary lists, and activities. Designed for adults but appropriate for grades 4-12.
KQED: Eco-Literacy for ESL Students
This student-centered, eco-literacy curriculum offers lesson plans linked to KQED/PBS programming and online interactive resources. The lessons and activities are appropriate for different levels of student proficiency in English.
Education World offers environmental activities and resources for classroom teachers.
This information from MedLine plus, a service of the U.S. National Library of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health, offers a wide range of information and resources about autism. Also available in Spanish.
Autism and Pervasive Developmental Disorders
This article from KidsHealth offers parents an overview of autism, signs and symptoms, and different options for treatment. The article is also available in Spanish.
The Autism Society exists to improve the lives of individuals affected by autism through public awareness, advocacy, and education. The Society offers an introduction to autism in Spanish.
This article from the National Dissemination Center for Children with Disabilities offers general information about autism, as well as tips for parents and teachers. The article is also available in Spanish.
U. S. Department of Education: Migrant Education Program
The goal of the Migrant Education Program is to ensure that all migrant students reach challenging academic standards and graduate with a high school diploma (or complete a GED) that prepares them for responsible citizenship, further learning, and productive employment.
U. S. Department of Education: Migrant Student Records Exchange Initiative
The Migrant Student Information Exchange (MSIX) is the technology that allows States to share educational and health information on migrant children who travel from State to State and who as a result, have student records in multiple States' information systems.
