| Grade | Topic/Title | Overview | Keywords |
| Sustainable School Projects | Help reduce impacts of stormwater runoff. Develop educational and recreational landscapes. Provide sense of ownership and pride. Enhance community awareness | rain garden, rain barrell, green roofs, tree box filters | |
| 4-12 | Salt Marsh In a Pan | Students create a model of a salt marsh to discover the impact of pollution and human activities on water-based habitats including bays and the ocean. Model may also be used to demonstrate salt marsh functions, non-point source pollution and watershed concepts. | effluents, estuary, eurotrophication, turbidity |
| Upper Elementary | Estuary Keeper |
The learner will build an understanding of population dynamics. The learner will build an understanding of the hydrosphere. The learner will evaluate living and nonliving things that affect animal life. The learner will build an understanding of materials, process uses with concerns for good stewardship. |
Non point source pollution, nursery areas, pollution runoff, habitat, point source pollution, algae bloom, population fry |
| 5-6 | Is there sewage in my sample? |
Sediment sampling and ocean pollution |
core sample, grid, sediment, sewage |
| 6-8 | Game of Life | Explain why overfishing has occurred in our oceans. Describe the effects of over-fishing on fish stocks. |
Fish stocks, Over-fishing, Population, Biomass, Sustainable, sustainability, Bycatch, Species |
| 6-8 | Empty Oceans | Explain what contributes to unsustainable fishing practices and habitat damage. Explain how citizens can help sustain seafood populations |
Sustainable (seafood, )Bycatch, Habitat, Longlining, Bottom trawling, Trawling/Dredging, Gillnetting, Purse Seining, Threatened species, Endangered species, Over-fishing |
| 6-8 | Fisheries Activity Book | Explain what fisheries management is. Explain why fisheries management is important. Describe how fish populations are managed. | fisheries, population management |
| 8 | Pollution Plume | To investigate the difference between point and non-point source pollution on water in North Carolina. | |
| 6-12 | Catch, Tag and Release | Determining the number of fish living in a given body of water is crucial to maintaining fish stocks and preserving species. During this lesson, students participate in a simulation of fish tagging and recapture, a method used by marine biologists and fisheries managers to estimate fish populations. | population management, tagging, fisheries, |
| 9-12 | Analyzing your school's energy consumption | Students will define attributes of an energy efficient "green" school. Students will identify areas of energy waste in their school by comparing their school to that of a LEED certified school, identifying areas that are within the school's capactiy to change and auditing the school's recycling program. | energy efficiency, green building, recycling, LEED Rating System, |
