Analyze your school’s energy efficiency
Teacher Resources from the Online News Hour has a lesson plan on green building principles for grades 9-12: Analyzing your School’s Energy Consumption, Background, Activities and Critical Analysis. Student’s compare their school’s energy efficiency to that of a LEED certified school. http://www.pbs.org/newshour/extra/teachers/lessonplans/science/green_schools.htm

Draft-o-meter

Worm Warmers
A follow-up lesson to Draft-o-meter, students create draft guards to help reduce energy waste. (http://www.ase.org/images/lib/educators/Worm%20Warmers.pdf)

A Home Energy Audit

This middle school activity (grades 6-8) allows student to become building inspectors, identifying features that can help or hurt energy conservation. http://www.ase.org/uploaded_files/educatorlessonplans/audit.pdf

Green Schools and Green Building Curriculum – Earthday Network

Every student deserves to attend a healthy school. Lower test scores, poor self-esteem, and a lack of interest in the learning process - these problems and many others correlate with the environmental stimuli of the school setting. Therefore, improvements in the general environment constitute improvements in student achievement. The best method for enacting these changes is through the promotion and creation of a healthy, sustainable school. Earth Day Network (EDN) is committed to expanding the national green schools movement to every school in the country.
These lessons serve as an intellectual starting point for educators on the local level to both learn about green building methods and implement them on the local level. Check this site often for frequent updates of new lessons, media reports, and EDN's role in the green schools movement.

Lesson Titles:

• Interview with a Green Builder
• What Makes A Building Green
• Tour in Sustainability
• Naturescape
• Landscape for Wildlife