Curriculum

Make your National Green Week all about sustainable transportation with GEF's free lessons for K-12 students.    Here, we've outlined 5 lessons for each grade to fill your National Green Week. To find many more lessons related to I Ride Green, other GEF programs, or sustainability education topics, please search the Sustainability Lesson Clearinghouse.

Browse these lessons and use one or all of them to create a fun sustainable transportation curriculum set!

PreK-2

• Before We Drove Cars
• Ready, Set, Stop Idling!
• Sustainable Living: Transportation
• How Does Air Get Polluted?
• Air Pollution Math

Grades 3-5

• Air Pollution: Visible and Invisible
• Emissions and the EPA
• Idle Off
• Clean Air Detective: Investigating Air Pollution
• Transportation Fuels Debate

Middle School

Check out our 10 lesson set for middle school students developed in partnership with Amtrak! 

High School

• Sustainable Transportation 
• Alternative Choices and Fuels
• Availability and Distribution
• Cell Wall Chemistry of Biofuel
• Don't Be Idle