Education Toolboxes
New Hope Bird Alliance believes one way to change the world is to start early with students. We are working to engage and educate students about the benefits of nature-based strategies that help communities adapt to climate change threats. Providing Education Toolboxes and Home School resources are a new practice for New Hope Bird Alliance. We have created, developed, or pulled from existing resources from other environmental advocates to bring these toolboxes to life.
The educational toolboxes for teachers are designed to provide STEM coursework for students. The toolboxes are designed by science curriculum specialists with grade appropriate information set by NC Science Standards.
Leave Your Leaves
Toolbox modules have been developed for specific grades to be used in classrooms. Each toolbox comes with a lesson plan and activities for the students to learn about the role of the ground layer in a healthy ecosystem. “Leave Your Leaves” provides grade specific information about the forces at work behind the twin crises of climate change and loss of biodiversity and how the benefits of leaving your leaves—more beneficial insects, less stormwater runoff, healthier trees, less air pollution, etc.—can help ameliorate these crises.
Leave Your Leaves Elementary Toolboxes
- Lesson 1 Comparing Leaves for Elementary Students
- Lesson 2 Comparing Leaves for Elementary Students
- Lesson 3 Comparing Leaves for Elementary Students
- Lesson 4 Leaf Litter Story for Elementary Students
- Lesson 4 Leaf Story PPT Elementary Students
- Lesson 5 Bug Search for Elementary Students
- Lesson 6 Terrarium for Elementary Students
- Lesson 7 Leaf Bingo for Elementary Students
- Lesson 7 Leaf Bingo Printouts for editing, Elementary Students
- Lesson 8 Hop Through a Neighborhood for Elementary Students
Leave Your Leaves Middle School Toolboxes
Grade 6
- All Lesson Outlines 1, 2, 3 Plan and Activities for Grade 6
- Background Info Leave Your Leaves for Grade 6
- Lesson 1 Plan and Activities Grade 6
- Lesson 1 Worksheet Tiny Towns and their Leaf Grocery Store Grade 6
- Lesson 2 Plan and Activities Grade 6
- Lesson 2 Worksheet Leaf Food Web Student Handout Grade 6
- Lesson 3 Plan and Activities Grade 6
- Lesson 3 Poster Worksheet Guidelines for Teach the Community To Leave the Leaves_Standing Up for the Little Guy Grade 6
Grade 7
- All Lesson Outlines 1,2,3 Plan and Activities Grade 7
- Background Info Leave Your Leaves Grade 7
- Lesson 1 Plan and Activities Grade 7
- Lesson 1 PowerPoint Grade 7
- Lesson 1 Worksheet Leaf Litter and the Human Body- Grade 7
- Lesson 2 Plan and Activities Grade 7
- Lesson 2 Worksheet Particle Pollution with AirNow Grade 7
- Lesson 3 Plan and Activities Grade 7
- Lesson 3 Worksheet Poster directions Keep Our Air Clean Posters Grade 7
Grade 8
- All Lesson Outlines 1,2,3 Plan and Activities Grade 8
- Background Info Leave Your Leaves Grade 8
- Lesson 1 Plan and Activities Grade 8
- Lesson 1 Worksheet The Watershed of My Town Grade 8
- Lesson 2 Plan and Activities Grade 8
- Lesson 2 Worksheet Erosion Models and CER Student Handout Grade 8
- Lesson 3 Plan and Activities Grade 8
- Lesson 3 Worksheet Poster and Leave the Leaves Infographic Grade 8
Leave Your Leaves High School Toolboxes
- Lesson 1 Plan and activities Leave Me Alone
- Lesson 1 Student Worksheet Leave Me Alone
- Lesson 2 Plan and activities Don’t be a Luna-tic!
- Lesson 2 Student Worksheet Don’t be a Luna-tic!
- Lesson 3 Plan and activities Runoff in a Bottle-An Inquiry
- Lesson 3 Student Worksheet Runoff in a Bottle-An Inquiry
- Lesson 4 Plan and activities Would You Be-Leave it
- Lesson 4 Student Worksheet Would You Be-Leave it
- Lesson 5 Plan and activities Trees Unbe-leavable Benefits
- Lesson 5 Student Worksheet Trees Unbe-leavable Benefits
- Lesson 6 Plan and activities Leaves Aren’t Litter
- Lesson 6 Student Worksheet Leaves Aren’t Litter
- Lesson 7 Plan and activities A Burning Question
- Lesson 7 Student Worksheet A Burning Question
- Lesson 8 Plan and activities Leave it up to me
- Lesson 8 Student Worksheet Leave it up to me
- Lesson 9 Plan and activities What’s Stomata With You
- Lesson 9 Student Worksheet What’s Stomata With You
- Lesson 10 Plan and activities What is this Strange Phen-omenon
- Lesson 10 Student Worksheet What is this Strange Phen-omenon