Environmental Resource Program (ERP): Resources and Lessons

ERP staff work to create and adapt lessons and resources for a variety of audiences including teachers, students, and the general public.

Water Quality

• Water Muddle Up and Clean Up Lesson Plan
• Water Muddle Up and Clean Up Worksheet and Pollutant Description Sheet
• Loop Lake map
• Demonstrating Susceptibility

Lead and lead poisoning

• Learn more about lead in toys in time for holiday shopping. This fact sheet provides information about how lead is used in toys, how to avoid toys tainted with lead, and information about preventing childhood lead poisoning.

Sustainability, Carbon Footprints, and Climate Change

• Calculating Your Carbon Footprint
• Hidden Energy: Secondary Carbon Footprints
• Using The Lorax to Teach About Sustainable Development
• What is Sustainability?
• Climate Change: Using Inquiry to Investigate Impacts on the Natural World, NCSTA Annual Conference 2007
  • Global Warming Impacts on NC Wildlife
  • Carbon Cycle Role-Play
  • It's all About Carbon
  • The Greenhouse Effect
  • Predicting Climate Change Impacts
  • Net Primary Production in a Temperate Forest Ecosystem
  • Effect of Temperature on Budworm Development Lab Activity
    • Budworm Fact Sheet
    • Budworm Data
    • Student Worksheet, Basic
    • Student Worksheet, Advanced