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Green Teacher 85; Summer 2009
Self-Guided Earth Adventures

Creating Earth Adventures: Self-Guided Programs to Connect Children with Nature; Humane Education: A Foundation for Connecting with All of Earth’s Inhabitants; Teaching Carbon Regulation in the High School Classroom; Environmental Writing Projects: Empowering Students, Documenting the Natural World; Greening the Elementary Education Curriculum One Course at a Time; Field Backpacks: Keeping Track of the Tools of the Trade; Global Green Teaching: EE Collaboration in the US-Mexico Border Region; Pedal-Power Outreach; Making Natural Connections

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    Green Teacher 84; Winter 2008/2009; Learning from Our Heritage
Human by Nature: Reclaiming our Natural Human Heritage; Fashioning Flora to Fiber; Our Community Geoscape: Living Sustainably; Rethinking Lunchtime: Making Lunch an Integral Part of Education; School Food Gardens in Multicultural Inner-city Settings; Imagine: Ecology and Teacher Education; Waiting For Rain or Seeding the Clouds?; Urban Gardening Renaissance; Nature Mapping
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Green Teacher 83; Spring 2008
Ready for the Next Wave?
Green Tsunami Rising: Environmental Education’s Third Wave; Stormwater Runoff: Understanding the Ecological Impacts of Changing Land Uses; Planet Transit: Profit or Survival?; The TREK Program; Climate Change and Regional Geography; Water: Local Pollution, Global Confusion!; Moving Toward Sustainability? The Face of Environmental Education in Singapore; Singapore Sensory Trail
Green Teacher 82; Fall 2007
Enhancing Our Visual Environment
Good Design Matters; Community-Character Education; Do You See What I See?;  Student "Experts" in Community Character; Using the Arts to Reclaim Community Pride; Organizing Youth Environmental Summits; Building with Nature; Environmental Education in Nepal; Community Appearance: Opportunities in the Inner City; Resolution to Advance Service-Learning
Green Teacher 81; Summer 2007
The Animal Swim Test
Swimming with Animals; The Peanut Pageant; Growing and Endangered Plants Network; The Outers Club; Roots of Diversity: Growing Culturally Significant Plants in the Classroom; Growing a Just Society: Linking Trade; Human Rights and the Environment; A Recipe for Outdoor Classroom Management; Environmental Education in Nepal
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Green Teacher 80; Winter 2007
China Going Green?
The Start of Something Big: Environmental Education in China; Last Child in the Woods? Treating nature-defecit disorder at a high school winter camp; Making It Up As We Go Along; Getting Fresh with Farm-to-School Programs; Social Justice and Language Arts; Discovering Lake Management: Getting Students' Feet Wet; Growing Art in School Gardens
Green Teacher 79; Summer 2006
The Threat of Invasive Species
Exotic Invasive Species: The Guests That Won't Go Home; A Date with Freddie Kudza;  Something's Choking Auntie Elm;  Sun Block;  Kids Teaching Kids: The Tantramar Wetlands Centre Project; Sunnyside and the Wolf; Valuing Nature in Environmental Education;  Georgia's Outdoor Classroom Symposium
Green Teacher 78; Spring 2006
Principles of Permaculture
Designing green industrial parks; Habitat House activity; Putting Environmental ethics into action; Nutritious weeds; Freshwater aquariums in the classroom
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Green Teacher 77; Fall 2005
Counting the Cost of Food
Using lichens as bio-indicators; Please touch! Hands on with real stuff; Getting dramatic in environmental education; India's waste reduction challenges; After-school EE programs
Green Teacher 76; Spring 2005
Bringing the Wild Inside
What if teaching went wild? (some classroom strategies); Environmental service learning; Baking a One World Cake; Guiding schools toward environmental literacy; Raptor studies with young children; Challenging corporate sponsorship
Green Teacher 75; Winter 2005
Exploring Past and Place
Community Questing: discovering local history; nature and culture; The journals of early naturalists; Seed Ball Project: greening a charred landscape; Sowing peace in Bosnian gardens; Teaching about the Earth Charter; En"grossing" scat studies
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Green Teacher 74; Fall 2004
Gone Foraging...
Foraging for wild edibles; Waste-free lunches; Powerful environmental literature; Science libaries in the classroom; Inquiry-based learning through animal tracking; Observation walks; "Teaming with Nature": one-square-kilometer nature studies
Green Teacher 73; Spring 2004
Human-Scale Education
Inteview about "small schools" with Satish Kumar; Wind energy activities; Winter Treasures excursions; Professional development through distance learning; Learning about salt marshes; Youth Forum: EE in Israel
Green Teacher 72; Fall 2003
Creative Problem Solving
Using creative problem solving in environmental projects; Water awareness through xeriscaping; Explorations in eco-art; Haiku-writing; Forecasting the Future game; Museum internships for teenagers
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Green Teacher 71; Summer 2003
The Dark Side of Light Pollution
Light pollution: environmental effects; causes and cures; Ten-day TV-Free Challenge; Investigating ants: schoolyard science activities; Integrating EE into home economics; Worm composting revisited
Green Teacher 70; Spring 2003
Teaching for the Future: Systems Thinking
Systems thinking and sustainability; The Carbon Dioxide Game; Entrepreneurial gardening projects; Critical thinking skills for Internet research; Ethnobotanical gardens; Evaluating enviromental education software
Green Teacher 69; Fall 2002
Tracking Wildlife
A course in wildlife tracking; Teaching about landmines; Exploring values through eco-literature; Environmental education in Sierra Leone; Creative nature journals; Integrating the arts into environmental education; Evaluating nature journals
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Green Teacher 68; Summer 2002
Living Systems: Cleaning the Water
Living machines in schools; Living within the Earth's means (exploring wants and needs); Measuring CO2 flux in soils; Vernal ponds: stepping stones in a sea of forests; Eco Snakes and Ladders game; Environmental education in Namibia
Green Teacher 67; Spring 2002 Biodiesel: Clearing the Air
The case for biodiesel in school buses; Soy-powered learning in high school; Painting a community map in the schoolyard; Leading group hikes; Environmental history; Learning about hummingbirds; Wildlife clubs of the Seychelles
Green Teacher 66; Fall-Winter 2001
A Watershed for Learning
Building a watershed model; Greening driver education; Schoolyard treeplanting: a survival guide; Outdoor learning with special needs students; Earth-friendly tech education; Eco-education in Sumatra; Primary sources for environmental literature on the Internet
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Green Teacher 65; Summer 2001
Teaching About Food Systems
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Teaching about food systems; Classroom hydroponics; Green economics; Rain forest walk simulation; Three sisters garden; Webcam sites for kids
Green Teacher 64; Spring 2001
Brain-Compatible Learning
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Jane McGeehan's popular lead article on brain-compatible learning is posted as a PDF file here. Updated versions of most of the other articles in this issue can be found in our book Greening School Grounds: Creating Habitats for Learning.
Green Teacher 63 Fall; 2000
The Power of Stories
The power of stories in EE; Car reduction plan for high schools; Educational challenges of climate change; Clean Air game; Organizing a bikeathon; Solar electricity activities
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Green Teacher 62; Summer 2000
Embracing Snakes
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Keeping snakes in the classroom; Developing ecological literacy; Learning science through patterns in nature; Young children as environmental citizens

Green Teacher 61; Spring 2000
Building with Straw
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Straw bale building projects; EE guidelines for early childhood; Discouraging vandalism in school nature areas; Bioregional treasure hunts; Measuring your school's ecological footprint

Green Teacher 60; Winter 1999-2000
Nitrogen Pollution: Too Much of a Good Thing
Raising monarch butterflies; Folklore and geography; Investigating nitrogen pollution; Birdathons; From gridlock to global warming -transportation alternatives; EE in South Africa

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Green Teacher 59; Fall 1999
Integrated Learning
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Integrated learning (theme); Ecology project learning; Integrated studies in systems; Community environmental involvement; Two Rivers project; EE in Thailand; Earth Community School
Green Teacher 58; Summer 1999 Green Mapmaking
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Green Mapmaking; Environmental industries co-op ed.; Investigating air pollution; The magic of night hikes; Activities on oceans and seafaring
Green Teacher 57; Winter 1998-99
Development Education: Seeking a Balance
Development Education (theme); Working with NGOs; A schoolwide focus on development; Race against desertification Water issues around the world; International development and EE
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Green Teacher 56; Fall 1998
Year of the Ocean
Year of the Ocean (theme); Ocean pollution (activities); Studying ocean fisheries; A high school fish hatchery; Agricultural biodiversity (activities); Bears of Banff (activity); Why we need protected areas; The Ugliest Schoolyard contest; A breakthrough report for EE; Reflections of a hopeful cynic
Green Teacher 55; Summer 1998
Environmental Monitoring
Environmental monitoring (theme); Biodiversity studies; Monitoring local rivers; wetlands; frogs; acid rain - and more; A constructed wetland project; Community mapping; The Globe program; A school on a river

Green Teacher 54; Winter 1997-98
Visions of Global Education
Visions of Global Education (theme); Multicultural EE; Teaching interconnectedness (activities); Population studies; Phenology: teaching natural science with the seasons (junior high)

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Green Teacher 53; Fall 1997
Art for Earth's Sake
Rivers: exploring environmental themes through art; Tracking migratory animals online; Celebrating Earth Week (unit); Junior Solar Sprint
Green Teacher 52; Summer 1997
Remystifying the City
Remystifying the city; The debate about hemp; Prairie restoration; Great Lakes food web (play); The art of science; Creating a class newspaper

Green Teacher 51; Spring 1997
Climate Change: Can we meet the challenge?
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Updated versions of most of the articles that appeared in this issue are in our book Teaching About Climate Change: Cool Schools Tackle Global Warming.

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Green Teacher 50; Winter 1996-97
Educating for Action
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Educating for action: A framework for education; GIS in high schools; Teaching about hunger; Protecting our urban forests; Activities for outdoor classrooms
Green Teacher 49; Fall 1996
Cash for Good Causes -- What are we supporting?
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Cash for good causes-- what are we supporting?; A Mohawk vision of education; Telecommunications for young children; Teaching human rights

Green Teacher 48; June-Sept 1996
The Magnetism of Ponds
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Building a schoolyard pond; Pond studies with children; How big is your ecological footprint? Rooftop gardens; Lead testing in high school chemistry; Visiting a sustainable living site; Tundra Science Camp

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Green Teacher 47; April-May 1996 Transforming School Grounds
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Updated versions of most of the articles in this issue can be found in our book Greening School Grounds: Creating Habitats for Learning.
Green Teacher 46; Feb-Mar 1996
Learning Inside Out
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Outdoor education (theme): Overcoming barriers to outdoor and environmental education; Food chains in the schoolyard; Relationships in nature; Single concept field trips; Wilderness survival simulation.

Green Teacher 45; December 1995-January 1996
Our Ecological Footprint
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Ecological footprints: measuring human impact; How to organize a K-12 children's hearing; Sensory science activities for K-8; Nurturing boys' appreciation of flowers and plants

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Green Teacher 44; October-November 1995
Democratizing Schools
Democratizing schools for better environmental stewardship; Guidelines for keeping animals in the classroom; Small-scale high school science: eco-friendly lab methods; Global Morning: a consumer awareness activity

Green Teacher 43; June-September 1995
The UN at 50: Should We Care?
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Teaching about the United Nations (K-12); Creating global superheroes (grade 6 unit)

Green Teacher 42; February-March 1995
Adopting Natural Areas
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Adopting natural areas: environmental stewardship; High school subject integration: four models; Branching out: forest studies with children, part 1; High school sustainable forestry project

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Green Teacher 41; December 1994-January 1995
The Greening of Russia
Environmental education in Russia; Asking the right questions about zoos; Une station météorologique a l'école; Successful waste reduction strategies

Green Teacher 40; October-November 1994
Making Global Connections(Photocopy only)
Interdisciplinary unit on food (junior high); Humane Education, part 2; Nova Scotia-Gambia Project (third world exchanges); Environmental sensitivities in the classroom

Green Teacher 39; June-Sept 1994
Humane Education
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Humane Education, part 1: Animal rights activities; Ten steps to becoming an environmentalist; The storyline approach in earth education; North America's environmental education organizations (listing)

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Green Teacher 38; April-May 1994
The Promise of Gardening(Photocopy only)
Updated versions of most of the articles that appeared in this issue can be found in our book Greening School Grounds: Creating Habitats for Learning
Green Teacher 37; Feb-March 1994
Twinning Schools on a Small Planet
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School twinning projects (special theme); I*EARN: Electronic School Network; Waterways rehabilitation projects

Green Teacher 36; Dec 1993-Jan 1994
The Importance of Biodiversity

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The importance of biodiversity; All-species projects; World Scientists' Warning to Humanity; An overnight trip with first graders

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Green Teacher 35; Oct-Nov 1993
Teaching about Sustainability
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Teaching about sustainability (special report); Winter composting experiment; Garbage free lunch programs; The greening of high school language arts
Green Teacher 34; June-Sept 1993
Making Peace in the 1990s
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Making Peace in the 1990s: special report; Papermaking: A high school paper mill; Establishing a naturalized area in the schoolyard; Global music from local materials

Green Teacher 33; April-May 1993 Sidewalk Botany
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Sidewalk botany; Multiculturalism theme: ideas and activities; Designing a green city (secondary project); Child rights-Earth rights (grade 4-6 unit)

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