The EnergySmart Schools website serves as a mechanism to provide education and information about energy-efficient, healthy, high-performance K-12 schools. The website includes resources for teachers, including a digitized version of the Get Smart about Energy CD-Rom, a curriculum enhancement tool containing 350 inquiry-based lessons aligned to National Science Education Standards.

The Center for Understanding the Built Environment specializes in community-based education, which brings together educators, children, and community partners to effect change. The center provides courses, workshops, newsletters, and teaching guides to help students appreciate good design, preservation, and planning. Curricula can be adapted to any site or grade level.

The Center for Ecoliteracy promotes sustainability education through systems thinking and place-based learning. Specific curriculum guidelines emphasize food systems and watersheds, but the website also offers useful articles and resources concerning systems thinking, environmental education, and ecological literacy.

Alliance’s Green Schools Program engages students in creating energy-saving activities in their schools using hands-on, real-world projects. Lesson plans for different age groups can be downloaded for free on this website.

This document gives a wonderful overview on incorporating design features into the curriculum, provides case studies, and numerous links. 

The Green Schools Initiative has developed a curriculum to help integrate issues of forest protection and reducing paper waste into students’ studies. Sample data sheets, homework assignments, cost-benefit analysis of switching to recycled paper, and other internet resources are provided.

The guide connects students to a thorough water education program including water's chemical and physical properties, quantity and quality issues, water user group needs, and ecosystems and management strategies. This 561-page guide is a collection of multidisciplinary water-related activities for ages 5 through 18 that are hands-on, easy to use, and fun. The lessons incorporate a variety of formats, such as large and small group learning, whole-body activities, laboratory investigations, discussion of local and global topics, and community service projects.

Students can determine the school’s Energy Star rating through the use of Portfolio Manager.

This website provides educational resources on green roofs for middle school students.

This website provides interesting ideas on K-12 curriculums for math and science. Many of these ideas can be adapted to include the building.