Earth and Environmental Science Lessons

Geography and Global Studies Lessons

Downloadable and Simple-to-Use

Lessons and Activities for Middle School and High School

Forward-Thinking Curriculum provides teaching resources to secondary educators who teach young global citizens. Here you can find resources exclusively designed for middle and high school students in earth and environmental science as well as world studies. (More about disciplines below.)

Disciplinary Connections in Science and Global Studies

Discover instantly downloadable educational tools here to support you in teaching about themes of global studies (with a special focus on world geography) and also the natural environment (earth and environmental sciences). There are many overlapping connections between these disciplines and you’ll find lots of activities and lessons here to teach them separately or together.

Whether you’re teaching world issues, human impacts on the environment, earth science, physical geography, or a related subject, you will find an activity to immerse and engage your students here.

Ease of Use

A hallmark of the lessons you’ll discover here is that they were carefully designed to be simple and easy for teachers to implement. Teachers are pressed for time and there is simply no need to deal with lengthy or confusing teacher instructions before you even get to teach the lesson.

Every lesson you’ll find here was designed with ease of use in mind—for both teachers and students.

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