Subscribe to the Free Spirit Blog
Search the blog:
Categories
- Administrators
- Bullying Prevention & Conflict Resolution
- Character Education
- Counselor's Corner
- Early Childhood
- Educational Technology
- Elementary Angle
- Free Spirit News
- Gifted Education
- Learning Disabilities
- Parenting
- Professional Development
- Publishing
- Service Learning & Volunteerism
- Social & Emotional Learning
- Teaching
- Teaching Strategies
- Uncategorized
-
Recent Posts
- Guided Group Discussion to Help Gifted Teens Develop Healthy Relationships
- Lessons and Observations from My First Month as School Principal
- Reducing the Stigma of Mental Illness in Middle School
- Positive Connections to Engage Students in Learning
- Enter to Win Put Your Worries Away and Take Charge of Anger!
- Welcoming Immigrant and Refugee Children into Your Preschool Classroom
- Helping Young Children Understand Their Changing Feelings
- Implementing Cluster Grouping
Readers’ Favorites
- 10 Ways Teachers Can Create a Positive Learning Environment
- That’s Not Fair! Teaching Kids the Difference Between Fair and Equal
- 10 Scenarios to Get Kids Talking About Bullying
- Road Trip Riddles for Long-Distance Laughs
- The Writing on the Wall: 10 Bulletin Boards to Support Social-Emotional Learning
- Back-to-School SMART Goals for School Counselors
- SMART Goals for Social-Emotional Learning
Archives
Tag Archives: water
9 Ways to Help Teens Take Local Action on Global Environmental Issues
Adapted from The Teen Guide to Global Action: How to Connect with Others (Near & Far) to Create Social Change by Barbara A. Lewis. Small actions can have a big impact. While tackling large environmental issues such as climate change … Continue reading
Water and Energy: A Critical Combo
by Cathryn Berger Kaye, M.A., coauthor of Make a Splash! and Going Blue! This year, World Water Day has a most important theme: Water and Energy. Do these two topics belong together? Absolutely! Along with commercial agriculture, thermoelectric energy generation … Continue reading
Service Learning Goes Blue
This week, the 23rd Annual National Service-Learning Conference: Our World, Our Future is taking place in Minneapolis. We are excited to be there for many reasons. Service learning experiences can tie kids to their communities in new and meaningful ways … Continue reading
Posted in Character Education, Service Learning & Volunteerism
Tagged Earth Day, empowerment, environment, teens, water, water quality
2 Comments