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Educator Resources

One World Journeys Expeditions offer engaging, educational experiences for teachers and students through our unique style of interactive, photography-based storytelling.

To help teachers integrate our Expeditions into the classroom easily and effectively, we create companion classroom activities and lesson plans in a downloadable, PDF format.

These materials are free to download, however you must be a registered member of One World Journeys in order to download the files. If you haven't joined One World Journeys, Join Now!

Note: Most of these Resources require the Adobe Acrobat PDF reader in order to open the file. If you don't have the reader yet, you can download it here.

 

 
 

Mercury Rising: Bearing Witness to Climate Change

 

Grades K-12

 
 

The Greenhouse Effect

During the lifetime of today's students, global climate change is likely to be the biggest single challenge that humanity will face. So how will educators and parents prepare the citizens and leaders of tomorrow to tackle this challenge effectively? Download this PDF essay to learn more about what we can expect and what can be done. (Reprinted from "Teaching About Climate Change", New Society Publishers, 2001.

Subjects:

Earth Systems Science, Environmental Science, Social Studies

File Type: PDF

Size: 640 Kb

 

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Is Climate Change Good for Us?

An activity for exploring how changes in climate could affect daily life and influence the economy of a region.

Subjects:

Earth Systems Science, Environmental Science, Geography, Language Arts, Social Studies

File Type: PDF

Size: 575 Kb

 

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Grades 5-8

 
 

CO2 and You

An in-depth exercise that challenges students to determine and evaluate their personal and families' contribution of CO2 to the Earth's atmosphere. Includes quantifying household and vehicle energy consumption and explaining the relationship between energy consumption and global climate change.

Subjects:

Earth Systems Science, Mathematics, Physical Science

File Type: PDF

Size: 349 Kb

 

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Sea Level Rising

This activity includes an experiment to predict how quickly ice will melt under certain atmospheric conditions and to measure potential sea level rising.

Subjects:

Earth Systems Science, Envrionmental Science, Geography, Language Arts, Mathematics, Meteorology, Physical Science, Social Studies

File Type: PDF

Size: 674 Kb

 

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Grades K-4

 
 

Mercury Rising: The Cloud Forest

Five different activities offers students the opportunity to identify the physical and biological characteristics of a tropical rainforest and compare it to their own natural environment and how climate change affects both places.

Subjects:

Earth Systems Science, Envrionmental Science, Geography, Language Arts, Mathematics, Meteorology, Physical Science, Social Studies

File Type: PDF

Size: 337 Kb

 

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Salmon: Spirit of the Land and Sea

 

Grades K-12

 
 

Salmon Classroom Poster

Enhance your bulletin board, hallway or classroom with this companion poster to the "Salmon: Spirit of the Land and Sea" lessons plans.

Subjects:

Art, Language Arts, Mathematics, Science, Social Studies

File Type: PDF

Size: 237 Kb

 

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Grades 9-12

 
 

Of the Salmon and For the Salmon

Students will be able to: indentify the interdependence between salmon and the temperate rainforest ecosystem; analyze and interpret different viewpoints about protecting Salmon and their habitats; analyze temperate rainforest ecology, geography and history; analyze and summarize survey data.

Subjects:

Art, Language Arts, Mathematics, Science, Social Studies

File Type: PDF

Size: 628 Kb

 

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Grades 5-8

 
 

The Salmon Circle of Life

Students will be able to: identify the interdepence between salmon and the temperate rainforest ecosystem; identify and compare the physical characteristics and behaviors of five salmon species; summarize the hardships of salmon migration.

Subjects:

Art, Language Arts, Mathematics, Science, Social Studies

File Type: PDF

Size: 465 Kb

 

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Grades K-4

 
 

The Salmon Circle of Life

Students will be able to: identify the physical and biological characteristics of the temperate rainforest; identify and summarize the life cycle of salmon, bear and caddisfly.

Subjects:

Art, Language Arts, Science, Social Studies

File Type: PDF

Size: 384 Kb

 

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