Free printable lesson plans on Global Awareness and Activism Activities

In industrialized 'first world' countries, we live in consumer-driven, insular communities. We have little exposure to and less contact with those living in poverty. Global issues don't impact us. We consume grotesque quantities of natural resources. We use goods wantonly, we burn vast amounts of fossil fuel every second. We let good clean water run down the drain endlessly. We turn fertile land in landfills which we cram with  waste plastic, paper, yard waste, glass, metal. 

Here are links to websites that are all about raising awareness, student and adult alike. These online resources have free printable lesson plans on empathy, volunteering, reducing carbon footprint, activism. Ironically, school paper waste is a huge part of pollution. So lets reduce this by printing responsibly and using online resources.  

The Hunger Site and partner sites provide free printable global awareness resources for teachers and homeschoolers. Get free printable ecology and environment lesson plans to teach students about the dangers of global warming, rainforest exploitation, expansionism, imperialism, urban sprawl, pollution, deforestation, water shortage, poverty and hunger.

Here are more free printable ecology and environment lesson plans help students explore world hunger, poverty, disease and famine from a social justice perspective. Smithsonian Education offers free printable conservation, ecology and environment activities on pollution, world poverty, famine and disease. Why Hunger has free activities on natural resources, world hunger, distribution of wealth and poverty.

Feeding Minds helps teachers and students explore world hunger and poverty inside out and provides many free printable educational resources. Rain-tree has free printable rainforest, ecology and environment activities. Students learn about deforestation, wildlife preservation, pollution, depletion of natural resources and more. Eduweb offers students online games and free printable resources to explore the Amazon rainforest and the environment.

Free Printable Animal Habitat Lesson Plans

Parents, are you homeschooling your kids or considering homeschool? Then you'll want to avail yourself of the many free printable lesson plans and worksheets online. Maybe you're needing resources for science homework help? Here are free printable animal classification charts, worksheets and taxonomy charts and diagrams to use for lesson plans. Animal classification or taxonomy, is a system of organizing creatures according to a hierarchy. It originated in Carolus Linnaeus's Systema Naturae. Creatures are organized by Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species (abbreviated KPCOFGS in science classes). Here are free printable animal

classification lesson plans and activities.

Printable Kids Worksheets has free printable animal life science worksheets, charts and diagrams.

Life science subjects include: Animal Ecosystems, Animal Vertebrate, Birds, Camouflage, Carnivores,

Herbivores, and Omnivores, Dinosaur, Food Chain, Mammals and Reptiles. Tetu Teacher at Weebly

has a free printable animal classification booklet filled with taxonomy charts and diagrams. Most are

these life science lesson plans are for grades 2-5. Here are colorful free printable animal taxonomy

lesson plans featuring the KPCOFGS system for grades preschool to third. Students learn animal

classification and other animal life science activities.

TSL Books has several free printable animal classification worksheets. Click around for other free

printable life science lesson plans to print. Here's a site that offers some printable taxonomy charts

and diagrams for taxonomy that are free. This blog has a collection of free printable animal

classification worksheets culled from around the web.

Use charts and diagrams to teach students how animal body coverings determine what animal group

the species belongs to. Students learn about animal habitats, biomes, how animals adapt to their

environment, how they live, eat, stay warm and reproduce. Students will explore endothermic (warmblooded) and ectothermic (cold-blooded) animals. Activities include lessons plans, resources, games,

coloring pages, activities, writing response lessons, puzzles, worksheets, vocabulary lists, word sort

Free Printable Habitat Dioramas- Science Activities

For hands-on science lesson plans, you can't beat habitat dioramas. Students explore concepts interactively, making 3-D scenes. Shoebox dioramas (scenes set up inside boxes tilted on their sides) help students visualize concepts. Diorama activities work very well for literature, social studies, animal habitats and life science lesson plans. Use animal habitats dioramas in life science lesson plans to help students understand how creatures interact with their environment.

Animal habitat dioramas can be made with found objects and recycled trash. Or here are free printable animal habitat dioramas from Crayola. Use these animal habitat coloring pages in hands-on science lesson plans. Printable dioramas give high success and help special needs and easily frustrated students create science projects they feel proud of.

The American Museum of Natural History has free printable animal habitat dioramas and science activities for different biomes. Look for "make it" and "coloring pages" links. From there, print backgrounds and creatures. Check out printable games and puzzles and lesson plans, too.

Exploring nature has
free printable animal habitats coloring pages. Students can color and cut out and arrange in 3D shoebox dioramas. Or that could be the backdrop and they could glue plastic animals and plants in the shoebox base.

First Palette has free printable dioramas: Habitats or biomes include coral reef, African savanna, polar biomes, rainforest and Paleolithic dinosaur habitats. Free printable animal coloring pages are available at First Palette too. There are insects, mammals, birds, fish, reptiles and amphibians in different biomes. Have kids color and place in the proper environment. This teaches sorting, classifying and symbiotic relationships. Have kids explore KPCOFGS--kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus and species--concepts too.