Team Green
Eco Kids
It is more important than ever before that today’s children are educated on environmental issues and are provided with the tools to make at-home, sustainable, environmentally friendly choices. Project LEAD’s Team Green: Eco Kids curriculum empowers children to take ownership of their choices, make positive contributions to the environment, and to lead by example, beginning in their own classrooms, homes, and communities.
Project LEAD’s Team Green provides students the opportunity to explore a different timely environmental theme each lesson, giving them a rich overview of some of our most pressing environmental issues. As a part of Team Green, kids explore what they can do to help with the big topics such as water conservation, endangered species, oceans & plastic, ice caps & the ozone layer, carbon footprints, rainforests, and renewable versus nonrenewable energy sources just to name a few. Within each lesson, students learn about that lesson’s theme and major issue, how it affects the planet, and how it affects them. Through group discussions facilitated by their LEAD Educator, students explore their own ideas on what we can do as a society to work toward a resolution, learn what other countries are already doing, and discuss what each Eco Kid can do at home and at school to make a difference. Each lesson is concluded with a Call To Action in the form of a mini-project for students to take home and share with their families, friends, and communities, spreading awareness and applying leadership skills learned in the Team Green workshops.
With Project LEAD’s Team Green: Eco Kids, children are learning that they can have an immediate impact on some of the world’s biggest environmental issues by making small changes at home, whether that be recycling, turning the water off to brush their teeth, or not using plastic straws. Project LEAD’s Eco Kids are equipped with the tools to do anything from making an impact on their own carbon footprints, to becoming some of our next environmental LEADers with invaluable voices to share!
Current Phase Of Team Green Curriculum Development
Team Green Curriculum Package Options
Weekly Curriculum
Elementary School
Age Range:
3rd - 5th Grade
Class Duration:
10 Weeks
Class Frequency:
Weekly
Lesson Duration:
1 Hour
Middle School
Age Range:
6th - 8th Grade
Class Duration:
10 Weeks
Class Frequency:
Weekly
Lesson Duration:
1 Hour
Day Camp Curriculum
Ages 9-12
Class Duration:
2 Weeks
Class Frequency:
Daily, Monday-Friday
Daily Duration:
9am-3pm, or 6 hours total
Ages 12-16
Class Duration:
2 Weeks
Class Frequency:
Daily, Monday-Friday
Daily Duration:
9am-3pm, or 6 hours total
Common Core State Standards
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.3.1, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.4.1, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.5.1
Engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse partners on grade level topics, texts, and issues, building on others' ideas and expressing their own clearly.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.5.8
Recall relevant information from experiences or gather relevant information from print and digital sources; summarize or paraphrase information in notes and finished work, and provide a list of sources.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.3.9, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.4.9, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.5.9
Draw evidence from literary or informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and research.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.6.1, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.7.1, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.8.1
Engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse partners on grade level topics, texts, and issues, building on others' ideas and expressing their own clearly.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.6.8
Gather relevant information from multiple print and digital sources; assess the credibility of each source; and quote or paraphrase the data and conclusions of others while avoiding plagiarism and providing basic bibliographic information for sources.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.6.9, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.7.9, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.8.9
Draw evidence from literary or informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and research.