Maybe your school pre-plans all school field trips way in advance. Maybe not though. If your child is in a traditional school environment you can suggest that they take some eco-friendly field trips. If you’re homeschooling, gather your homeschool pals, and plan your own eco-excursion.
Now, I knew this aunt of an ex boyfriend who once said she went on a field trip in elementary school to a slaughter house (egad). She noted that this was why she never ate meat (a very eco-friendly habit). However, if slaughter house massacres seem too um, violent, here are some other ideas:
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If you’re a homeschooling or unschooling family you have a much better chance of spreading green values and living skills to your kids. Thus far, conventional schools, minus specific charters or private programs, tend to have a limited green scope. As a homeschool family, you can focus as much as you like on green issues, and hopefully your goal with this is substantial.

Tips that can help you green your homeschooling experience: 
Borrow don’t buy: Curriculum pushers, as most homeschoolers know, can be hard core. However, there’s no reason to give in. If your choice is to use a set curriculum, …read more

The Eco-Bottle Treehouse Project is pretty in-depth; but a nice project to reuse old 2-liters and to teach kids about Biodiversity and Ecology.

Stats from the project website:

Learner Level: Beginner; Intermediate
Target Grade/Age Level: High School (Ages 15-18). Can be modified for many age/grade levels
Learning Objective(s): Plan and build an ecobottle (or eco-column) out of five 2-liter bottles that will include an aquatic section, a decomposition section, and a terrestrial section. Observe the ecobottle for 4 to 6 weeks and record their hypotheses, observations and analysis in their science notebooks. Create a treehouse for each ecobottle group, based on their research of …read more