Sustainability Learning Resource Center

Links to Sustainability Education Resources for Teachers

Integrating curriculum from science and social science disciplines is key to creating sustainability education. When completed, this web site will include links for teachers to educational resources available throughout the web.

Help us develop this site by sending your comments/suggestions to the email address listed on the bottom of this page.

• General Education and Educational Index Sites
  • Global Schoolhouse. Global Schoolhouse site is sponsored by Microsoft (so you get a lot of MS ads), but has a super approach to providing curriculum plans/ideas based on weekly "featured topics". These include science, history, art, the environment, etc. Also includes links to specific internet sites for student research related to suggested classrooom projects. Other opportunities on this page include an on line encyclopedia (in any language), but you have to pay for them.
  • CERES. This compilation of educational links, produced by the California Environmental Resources Evaluation System (CERES), is the best overall collection of resource lists and actual data about all areas of California and the West yet found. Extremely useful search and curriculum opportunities. Divided by resources for students and educators.
  • Educational Resources for Teachers. This index site, sponsored by the US government, is an extensive listing of data sources, educational theory and standards information, and other teaching resources. It includes information relevent to teachers throughout the country.
  • Mendocino Unified School District Homepage. The Mendocino Unified School District is on the leading edge in the country for internet useage. Teachers in that district have developed numerous ways to use the internet in classrooms and this page includes a good road map of what they've done. It includes curriculum detail and student work on a variety of topics. The resources currently available include studies of birds, flight, poetry, and Mendocino history.
• Environmental Education and Science
  • EElink. One of the first, and still most comprehensive, indexes of resources for environmental education. It includes both a table of contents and search engine, making it easy to find just what you want. It is slow to be updated, though, so it will not include the newest web sites.
  • Botony. Lesson plans for K-12 curriculum resources for botany.
  • General Environmental Information. Articles and information related to environmental issues, not specific to education and including a distinctly environmentalist point of view.
  • Projects. Created by Sylvia Chard, University of Alberta, this site includes detailed descriptions of year-long projects examining some aspect of the environment or society. Good for project ideas and descriptions of different project strategies.
  • Space. The Nasa Observatorium includes data and interactive features (including games) applicable to classrooms studying space. It also includes descriptions of use of advanced technology such as satellite imagry.
• Geography and Social Studies
  • Lake Tahoe Basin Economic Indicators. The 1996 report, commissioned by the Tahoe-Truckee Regional Economic Coalition, includes economic data and trends relevant to creating a sustainable economy in the Region.
  • Social Sciences. This is part of the CERES site and includes access to social, economic, and geographical information from around the state. One feature of specific interest is the ability to search the state's census data, by census tract.
• Language Arts and Literature
• History
• Arts

The Sustainability Learning Resource Center is a project sponsored by the Tahoe Center for a Sustainable Future, in cooperation with University Extension, UC Davis and Sierra Nevada College. This project has been generously supported by a grant from the National Telecommunications Information Agency. Portions of this Center have also been funded by the Stanley Foundation and the Gellert Foundation.

To Learn More Contact:

Sue Rae Irelan, Program Manager, TCSF
P.O. Box 1096
Homewood, CA 96141
phone: 916-525-1646 fax: 916-525-1613
email: srirelan@sierra.net

Last Updated on January 8, 1996