This page contains Educational Units developed for The Nature of Teaching program.  Each unit contains one or more lesson plans that have been written to  Indiana's Academic Standards with an emphasis on Science and Math Standards.  Some lesson plans contain readings from which Literary Standards can be met.  Click on an image to open the PDF of the Educational Unit.  Text with black boxes within the PDFs are links to supplemental materials.

This Unit includes four lesson plans: Animal Tracks, Scent Stations, Indoor Track Casting, and Outdoor Track Casting.  It meets several K-5 Science and Math Academic Standards and three 9-12 Natural Resource Management Academic Standards.		This Unit contains four lesson plans: Be A Tooth Sleuth, Poster Exploration of Food Webs, Student Investigations of Food Webs, and Energy Flows and Food Webs.  It meets several K-5 Science Academic Standards.
This Unit includes three lesson plans: Habitat Selection, Icy N' Hot Crickets, and Hot Rock.  It meets several K-5 Science and Math Academic Standards and three 9-12 Natural Resource Management Academic Standards.		This lesson plan demonstrates why ecosystems are useful for describing how organisms depend on and interconntect with one one another.  It meets several K-5 Science and Math Academic Standards and three 9-12 Natural Resource Management Academic Standards.
This Unit includes two lesson plans describing the role mammals play in ecosystems.  Students learn to build their own ecosystems and research mammals.