GEN’s Main Green eMall Store

This is the Main Store in the Green eMall of Green Education Network, which offers more green products for classroom and home than any Mall in the U.S., and unlike Malls, it takes no gas to get there.

Weird Endangered Species Lesson Plan Gr 5-9

After the pantomime, select one of the pantomimed species and ask students to conjecture why that species is endangered. Ask this about as many of species habitat types as time permits.

Weird Endangered Species

Inspire, enlighten and enliven an environmental education lesson on endangered species, and gain empathy from human underdogs!

Free K-8 Endangered Species Poster

Free from the US Fish and Wildlife Service

The dimensions of the poster are 24 X 21 inches. It’s folded to fit into a standard notebook pocket (8.5 X 11 inches) so students can carry it around to show friends and family. The poster is free. The general public can get a copy by calling 1-800-344-WILD [...]

Threatened & Endangered Plant Species

TESS : Threatened & Endangered Species System.

Endangered & Threatened Animal Species

TESS : Threatened & Endangered Species System. The current Worldwide list of all Threatened and Endangered Animal Species

Welcome to NAAEE — NAAEE Portal

Welcome to NAAEE — NAAEE Portal.
Green Education Network strongly supports NAAEE. See GEN’s Mission page to learn why!

Arctic and Antarctic Climate: Oceanography

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Atmosphere and Ocean Circulation
The atmosphere and ocean act as “heat engines,” always trying to restore a temperature balance by transporting heat toward the poles. Our weather is a manifestation of this phenomenon. Low-pressure systems, such as storms, which can be especially strong in winter, are one of nature’s best ways of transporting heat poleward by [...]

Arctic & Antarctic Sea Ice Characteristics

Characteristics of Sea Ice
Sea ice is classified by stages of development that relate to thickness and age. Most scientists describe sea ice only by its age, typically as first-year or multiyear. However, some experts who chart the extent of ice for navigational purposes use specific terms to relate the thickness of ice to its age.
New [...]

NSIDC: National Sea Ice Data Center

Sea Ice: NSIDC Data
NSIDC distributes information that we call data products. Our data products provide measurements and information about a range of topics. Several of our data products show the amount of sea ice in the Arctic and Antarctic over the last few decades. Most of these data products are based on satellite data that [...]

Award Winning Global Warming Animation Video

Videography students and computer animation lesson plans may get a good idea for a new technique — and a good reminder on an important subject – from this 2-minute Video Animation of Global Warming Produced by John Cooney with Citizens for Global Solutions received an Environment Award from Loreto Bay Company

GEN Highly Recommends this Global Warming Video

Green Education Network highly recommends this 9-minute video explaining the causes, process, and effects of global warming for two reasons: (1) It is of superior quality and among the more complete, clear and instructive of any we have seen, and (2) It inspires, because it was created by a highschool student for a course project! Grade [...]

Video: What Is Global Warming

3-minute video with music background uses photos and graphics to explain basics of the greenhouse effect

NASA Video: Climate and Weather Factors

4-minute video suitable for Gr 4-8 explains meaning of “climate” versus “weather” and the factors of each

NASA Meteorology Video: Intro to Weather

7-minute NASA video, basic overview of meteorology, introduction to weather, gr levels 6-12

Student Inspires Father to Solve Environmental Problem

The Problem:
Americans alone dispose of 360 BILLION plastic bags yearly. EPA estimates it takes 100 to 400 years for them to break down.  In the meantime, trillions pollute and litter oceans, landfills, water supplies and landscapes.
The Solution of BIODEGRADABLE recycled-plastic bags started when student Kendal Tracy, whom you’ll meet in the video, talked about [...]

BIODEGRADABLE Plastic Bags from Perf Go Green Awarded GEN Seal of Approval

 
The Problem: Americans alone dispose of 360 BILLION plastic bags yearly. EPA estimates it takes 100 to 400 years for them to break down.  In the meantime, trillions pollute and litter landfills, water supplies, oceans and landscapes.
The Solution Started Here: Perf Go Green’s patented BIODEGRADABLE products –including trash bags –incorporate recycled plastics that begin to [...]

Video Lecture: Denial of Global Warming in America

Highly Recommended by Green Education Network!
While polls show that the majority of Americans now believe human activity is causing global warming and that major steps must be taken immediately to avert catastrophe,  polls also show that some Americans still believe that there is “no solid” evidence of global warming, or that if warming is happening it can be [...]

Julia Butterfly Hill Inspires Movie “Luna”

Julia Butterfly Hill Lived in a Giant Redwood Tree for Two Years to Prevent Loggers from Cutting It Down
 
 

 
Julia Butterfly Hill is an American activist and environmentalist who lived in a 180-foot-tall, 600-year-old California Redwood tree for two years — 738 days to be exact — between December 10, 1997 to December 18, 1999. Hill [...]

National Geographic Video: Global Warming 101

Click the link above to view on GEN the 3-minute National Geographic video Global Warming 101

Earth Day Video Dramatization of Global Warming

Click the link above to view on GEN this 7-minute video produced by the the environmental activism organization Earth Day. Consists of video clips with musical accompaniment meant to dramatize the global warming crisis message of An Inconvenient Truth. Warning Note: a figure evidently meant to represent Jesus crying at the sight of man’s abuse [...]

Al Gore Video: Global Warming Interview

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Click the link above for a news reporter’s interview with Al Gore about his Global Warming message, and the geo-socio-political and economic hurdles that must be overcome, including the fact that there are still those who do not think global warming is a dire crisis, and a few who do not think it is caused by human activity. 6 [...]

Carbon Calculator

Carbon-neutral living is about reducing one’s carbon footprint, which means using less energy derived from fossil or carbon-based fuels, chiefly oil (and gasoline derived from oil), coal, wood, and gas. Additionally, there are things you can do to offset your use of carbon-based energy sources (ie your carbon footprint). For more, and an online tool you [...]

Al Gore Video: Global Warming 10 minutes

10-minute version of Al Gore’s televised global warming presentation

Al Gore Video: An Inconvenient Truth Trailer

Click the link above to see the “trailer” (promotional preview using out-takes) to the Academy Award winning documentary movie “An Inconvenient Truth”. The book and the movie can be purchased in the GEN Green eMall bookstore. 
 
Enter “Al Gore Video” in GEN Search Box for more free Al Gore videos

Global Warming: Crutzen’s Quick Fix and Warning Against Biofuels

Global Warming: Nobel Prize Winner Paul Crutzen
 
Steve Connor, Science Editor of the Independent, wrote:
Professor Paul Crutzen, who won a Nobel Prize in 1995 for his work on the hole in the ozone layer, believes that political attempts to limit man-made greenhouse gases are so pitiful that a radical contingency plan is needed.
In a polemical [...]

Ozone: Video Interview of Nobel Prize Winner Paul Crutzen

Video Interview: Nobel Prize Winner Paul Crutzen
In 1995 Paul J. Crutzen shared a third of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Mario J. Molina and F. Sherwood Rowland for their “work in atmospheric chemistry, particularly concerning the formation and decomposition of ozone”. Issues that particularly concern him are the biosphere, ecosphere and climate.  On the [...]

Extreme Life

Extreme Life
Nearly every part of the planet, from the polar ice caps to the Equator, supports life of some kind. Recent advances in microbiology have demonstrated that microbes live deep beneath the Earth’s terrestrial surface, and that the total mass of microbial life in so-called “uninhabitable zones” may, in biomass, exceed all animal and plant [...]

Ecology: Biosphere

Nearly every part of the planet, from the polar ice caps to the Equator, supports life of some kind.

Ecology: Levels of Organization, Biosphere and Ecosystem

Biosphere
For modern ecologists, ecology can be studied at several levels: population level (individuals of the same species in the same or similar environment), biocoenosis level (or community of species), ecosystem level, and biosphere level.
 
The outer layer of the planet Earth can be divided into several compartments: the hydrosphere (or sphere of water), the lithosphere (or [...]