Dear Students, Educators, Families & Community Partners,

Thank you for visiting our new collection of powerful resources for integrating environmental topics into your standards-based instruction. We appreciate your attention to the importance of these topics for your students' growth, for their future career prospects, and the improved health of the planet we share.

This collection is for your outdoor and indoor classroom use, with articles, websites, videos and other media that pertain to your instruction integrating climate change activities into your content area.

This content is truly cross-curricular!

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PreK – 12 Resource Collection &
Sustainability Office Community Partners

Water

NM State Drought Monitor

No two states experience the same set of impacts during a drought. We developed tables of impacts reported during past droughts in each state for each level of drought on the U.S.Drought Monitor.

TED Resources

Who Owns the Wilderness? TED Ed

In 1903, US President Theodore Roosevelt took a camping trip in California’s Yosemite Valley with conservationist John Muir. Roosevelt famously loved the outdoors, but Muir had invited him for more than just camping: Yosemite was in danger.

Reducing Pollution

Keep Santa Fe Beautiful

Fun with Dusty Roadrunner Activity Book PDF

Active Transportation

Safe Routes to School Partnership

Learn about our work in targeted metropolitan areas to advance healthy transportation options, Complete Streets, environmental justice, Vision Zero, and Safe Routes to School.

Active Transportation

Santa Fe Bikeways & Trails Map

Santa Fe County has created an online, interactive trails map that is now available to the public! You can find hundreds of miles of trails throughout Santa Fe County, including County trails and Santa Fe National Forest, City of Santa Fe, and private land trails.

Active Transportation

Safe Routes to School Partnership

Learn about our work in targeted metropolitan areas to advance healthy transportation options, Complete Streets, environmental justice, Vision Zero, and Safe Routes to School.

Active Transportation

Safe Routes to School Partnership

Learn about our work in targeted metropolitan areas to advance healthy transportation options, Complete Streets, environmental justice, Vision Zero, and Safe Routes to School.

Active Transportation

LOOK FOR ME

LOOK FOR ME is a travel safety campaign partnership between the UNM Center for Injury Prevention, Research and Education (CIPRE) and New Mexico Department of Transportation Traffic Safety Division.

Active Transportation

Walk & Roll to School

Now that National Walk to School Day 2020 is in the history books, communities are looking toward the future – a future that continues active, safe routes to school for students everywhere.

Active Transportation

Safe Routes to School Partnership

Learn about our work in targeted metropolitan areas to advance healthy transportation options, Complete Streets, environmental justice, Vision Zero, and Safe Routes to School.

Active Transportation

LOOK FOR ME

LOOK FOR ME is a travel safety campaign partnership between the UNM Center for Injury Prevention, Research and Education (CIPRE) and New Mexico Department of Transportation Traffic Safety Division.

Active Transportation

Safe Routes to School Partnership

Learn about our work in targeted metropolitan areas to advance healthy transportation options, Complete Streets, environmental justice, Vision Zero, and Safe Routes to School.

Watershed Health

River Source

River Source recognizes and honors the culturally diverse inhabitants who first settled in the area and who called the nearby river “’Ogap’oge” or “Hashuk” the original names given by the Tewa and Keres peoples respectively to what is now known as the Santa Fe River.

Watershed Health

Santa Fe Adopt-a-River

The Santa Fe River is up for adoption! Our community river needs your help and care to stay vibrant and healthy. And you can join the Adopt-the-River program to help achieve this goal.

Water

NM State Drought Monitor

No two states experience the same set of impacts during a drought. We developed tables of impacts reported during past droughts in each state for each level of drought on the U.S.Drought Monitor.

Active Transportation

Safe Routes to School Partnership

Learn about our work in targeted metropolitan areas to advance healthy transportation options, Complete Streets, environmental justice, Vision Zero, and Safe Routes to School.

Active Transportation

LOOK FOR ME

LOOK FOR ME is a travel safety campaign partnership between the UNM Center for Injury Prevention, Research and Education (CIPRE) and New Mexico Department of Transportation Traffic Safety Division.

Active Transportation

LOOK FOR ME

LOOK FOR ME is a travel safety campaign partnership between the UNM Center for Injury Prevention, Research and Education (CIPRE) and New Mexico Department of Transportation Traffic Safety Division.

Wildfire Prevention

Leonora Curtin Wetlands Preserve

The Leonora Curtin Wetland Preserve is a 35-acre nature preserve located on the I-25 frontage road in La Cienega, adjacent to El Rancho de las Golondrinas.

Watershed Health

River Source

River Source recognizes and honors the culturally diverse inhabitants who first settled in the area and who called the nearby river “’Ogap’oge” or “Hashuk” the original names given by the Tewa and Keres peoples respectively to what is now known as the Santa Fe River.

Watershed Health

Santa Fe Adopt-a-River

The Santa Fe River is up for adoption! Our community river needs your help and care to stay vibrant and healthy. And you can join the Adopt-the-River program to help achieve this goal.

Active Transportation

Safe Routes to School Partnership

Learn about our work in targeted metropolitan areas to advance healthy transportation options, Complete Streets, environmental justice, Vision Zero, and Safe Routes to School.

Active Transportation

LOOK FOR ME

LOOK FOR ME is a travel safety campaign partnership between the UNM Center for Injury Prevention, Research and Education (CIPRE) and New Mexico Department of Transportation Traffic Safety Division.

Active Transportation

Safe Routes to School Partnership

Learn about our work in targeted metropolitan areas to advance healthy transportation options, Complete Streets, environmental justice, Vision Zero, and Safe Routes to School.

Podcast Resources

Podcasts

HOT TAKE

Climate change has emerged as the undisputed story of our time, even of all humanity. But we don’t know how to talk about it. And the story is so overwhelming, we don’t get to talk about storytelling.

Podcasts

How to Save a Planet

Does climate change freak you out? Want to know what we, collectively, can do about it? Us too. How to Save a Planet is a podcast that asks the big questions: what do we need to do to solve the climate crisis, and how do we get it done?

Podcasts

Teach Me How To Vegan

Teach Me How To Vegan is jam-packed with resources, ideas, and tips for switching to (or staying on) a plant-based diet. Hosts Tony and Mickey Quintana share from their experiences, both personal and professional, how you can go vegan.

Podcasts

The Sustainable(ish) Podcast

Grab yourself a cuppa, and snuggle up on the sofa ready for a good old chinwag. Get inspired by fabulous people doing wonderful things to help us all to live a bit more sustainably, while you're walking the dog, doing the school run, or cooking the tea..!

Podcasts

Teach Me How To Vegan

Teach Me How To Vegan is jam-packed with resources, ideas, and tips for switching to (or staying on) a plant-based diet. Hosts Tony and Mickey Quintana share from their experiences, both personal and professional, how you can go vegan.

Music Resources

Solar Energy

I'll Follow The Sun

The Beatles

Solar Energy

Sunshine Song

Jason Mraz

Solar Energy

The Planet Song/Solar System Song

Kids Learning Tube

Solar Energy

I'll Follow The Sun

The Beatles

Solar Energy

Sunshine Song

Jason Mraz

Solar Energy

Sunshine Song

Jason Mraz