Lesson Plans

2026-07-24

This is an active simulation game, best done outdoors. Students work in teams to deliver a container of clean water from an inland community, down a river, to an ocean creature.

2026-07-24

Students investigate interrelationships among plants and animals in an ecosystem and explore how climate change might affect those interrelationships and the natural community as a whole.

2026-07-24

Students role-play caribou and habitat components to demonstrate the impacts of climate change on the Arctic tundra.

2026-07-24

Using picture cards, students play a variety of non-competitive games that explore the connections between human actions, climate change, and positive and negative impacts on wildlife habitat.

2026-07-24

Students participate in a national survey of bioindicators of climate change by gathering data on local plants and animals.

2026-07-24

This is a physically challenging team game in which students role-play a wild animal and work to connect four wild spaces that represent the animal's key habitat needs.

2026-07-24

Students conduct imaginary interviews with northern wildlife species, researching and presenting answers to a set of questions in an interview format.

2026-07-24

Students plan, prepare and present a hands-on or an electronic display on a theme related to watersheds. They may also bring the display and its messages to the attention of other schools through the CWF website and other media.

2026-07-24

Students will complete a creative master map (example) that is a mural, map, exhibit, and display all rolled into one! The master map will integrate what students learn about birds from activities in this kit

2026-07-24

Students plan, prepare and present a hands-on or an electronic display on an ocean and watershed theme. They may also share their displays with other schools through CWF Education and other media.