Earth Focus , a student environmental journal, provides a forum for students to share their environmental activities and concerns. Information regarding submission of articles to the journal is also available. Subscription information for the print version of Earth Focus can be found here. The lessons are designed to be used in the middle school classroom to create a better understanding of the issues and concerns addressed in The State of the Bay. A variety of lesson types are presented, including labs, hands on activities, project plans, research tasks, and processing of data.
Problem solving is stressed, along with ideas for technology implementation.
Links are provided to give easy access to sites related to each topic. This information and the lessons were compiled by Mary Bell, a middle school science teacher from M. C. Williams Middle School, and Sandy Bankston, a middle school science teacher from The Rice School in Houston, Texas. This ambitious project will bring lessons, strategies, and evaluation to teachers througout the state. Native Wildlife is a set of three environmental science units that contain many hands-on and interactive activities which are easily used in the classroom. Mathematics and English skills are intergrated into each unit.