Margarito’s Forest / El Bosque de Don Margarito / Ri k’iche’laj ri tat Margarito

This true story, set in a remote village in the mountains of central Guatemala, helps explain one Maya family’s understanding of living in harmony with nature. Margarito’s forest was inspired by Don Margarito and his lifelong commitment to the ecology of his community. After a young Esteban complains of having to carry a seedling tree […]

Galápagos Girl / Galapagueña

For Valentina, living on the Galápagos islands means spending her days outside, observing the natural world around her. She greets sea lions splashing on the shore, scampers over lava rocks with Sally-lightfoot crabs, and swims with manta rays. She is a Galápagos girl, and there is no other place she’d rather be! But this wondrous […]

Climate Lit

Climate Lit is a hub for building young people’s climate literacy with literature, film, and stories in other media. The website offers a literature database, curricula, and a climate glossary all of which are focusing on increasing students’ climate literacy. Organization: Climate Lit Climate Lit was founded in 2021 as a cooperative of educators, scholars, […]

Think Earth Environmental Education Foundation

The Think Earth Environmental Education Foundation provides virtual field trips so students can explore the ocean in their own classroom. Each virtual field trip contains the following: They also provide free K-8 curriculum for those who make a free account. Think Earth instructional units teach students: Think Earth helps develop students’ understanding of how their […]

EcoRise Freemium Lessons

EcoRise Freemium lessons are stand-alone lessons from each of our five curriculum suites, including Sustainable Intelligence, Design Studio, Business of Social Good, Green Building Lessons for a Sustainable Future, and Biomimicry and Science. Each lesson includes a detailed lesson plan as well as additional resources such as student worksheets, presentations, and assessment checklists and rubrics.We […]

Water – Corporate Accountability

Water – Corporate Accountability’s campaign for water provides students with examples of how to advocate for their water along with any relevant news articles concerning events that affect our water. There is also a video “Who controls the way we drink?” which showcases how cities around the United States have come up with innovative ways […]

AstroNuts Series

This three-part graphic novel series follows the AstroNuts on their various missions to save the inhabitants of Earth in a sustainability-centered storyline. AstroNuts Mission One: The Plant Planet Humans have gone too far, wrecking planet Earth. We might need to find a new planet. But who could possibly help us do that? The AstroNuts! Lucky […]

Mongabay Kids

This is a resource-rich website, easily navigable in plain language for kids but chock-full of resources for educators. Highlighting issues, animals, and people surrounding sustainability around the world, this site is a perfect home base for sustainability education. Teachers can find photos and videos of wildlife from trail cams; comics on dung beetles and various […]

Just a Little Mynah

Little Mynah wishes she was not so ordinary. But when her friend, the magnificent Heron, gets into trouble she flies into action and discovers that even ordinary little birds can do extraordinary things. This is the first multilingual picture book in a series to be published by Epigram Books that introduces preschoolers and early primary […]

Miguel’s Community Garden

Miguel searches for sunflowers in his community garden in this vibrant exploration of gardening and healthy eating, from the Where in the Garden? series. Miguel is throwing a party at his community garden for all of his friends, and he needs help searching for sunflowers to complete the celebration. What do we know about sunflowers? […]