Last Updated 5/15/2008
Each student participated in a team that designed and presented a lesson plan to a
middle school in the Madison area. These lesson plans were to educate middle
school students on some aspect of sustainability. When presenting the lesson
plan (teaching the middle school students), lecture could only be a small part
of the overall presentation. Students were to think creatively about how to
engage middle schoolers in learning.
This activity arose out of the belief by past students that they should have started learning about sustainability in middle school. Spring Harbor Middle School in Madison, and Indian Mound Middle School in McFarland volunteered to host teams of students. Student teams coordinated with a teacher in each school and presentations were both entertaining and educational.
Click below for the lesson plans for each of the teams.
Spring Harbor
Bottled Water
Environmentally Friendly Practices at Home
Global Deforestation
Logging and Community Impact
Sustainable Forestry
Water Taste Test and Town Hall Meeting
McFarland IMMS
Chinese Business
Eating and Drinking Organic
Household Choices
