Seventh Generation Introduces New Teacher Curriculum
Special Earth Day Lesson Plan Turns Students Into Eco-Scientists
BURLINGTON, Vt. (Business Wire EON) April 17, 2008 --
Seventh Generation, the country’s leading
provider of environmentally safe household products, is celebrating
Earth Day where it matters most: in classrooms from coast to coast,
where teachers are presenting the company’s
unique Earth Day lesson plan and preparing their students to become
responsible stewards of the natural world.
Designed for grades 5-7, the new Cost of Clean lesson plan is an
inquiry into the nature of common household chemicals. It asks students
to think about the impacts these products have and challenges them to
create their own non-toxic solutions to common cleaning dilemmas.
The lesson starts with some questions about what happens to our homes,
our bodies, and our environment when we spray chemical cleaning products
in the air, apply them to household surfaces, and rinse them down the
drain. Students then enter the lab and become their own cleaning product
designers. Using safe, natural ingredients, children create their own
product formulas, test them on dirty surfaces, record their results, and
share their findings with the class.
Through these investigations, students make connections between the
cleaning products people use and important environmental issues like
indoor air quality and water pollution. They come to realize that waste
does not magically disappear and reach an understanding about the
relationship between small, every-day decisions and the “big
picture” effects those choices have. The
lesson plan is also designed to support teaching about the water cycle
and human impacts on ecosystems.
The new Seventh Generation curriculum addresses two key National Science
Standards: Science as Inquiry (Content Standard A) and Science in
Personal and Social Perspectives (Content Standard F). Created with
maximum flexibility in mind, teachers can use the lesson plan for single
day or take advantage of its numerous extensions and resources to
provide as much as a week of invaluable environmental learning.
The new curriculum contains both student and teacher pages as well as an
excerpt from Seventh Generation’s popular
book, Naturally Clean. It is available at http://www.seventhgeneration.com/earth-day-lesson-plan.
About Seventh Generation
Seventh Generation is committed to being the most trusted brand of
household and personal-care products for your living home. Our products
are healthy and safe for the air, the surfaces, the fabrics, the pets,
and the people within your home — and for the
community and environment outside of it.
For information on Seventh Generation cleaning, paper, baby and feminine
personal care products, to find store locations, and see all of the new
website features visit www.seventhgeneration.com.
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