Features
Educating for Action by William F. Hammond
A framework for thinking about the place of action in
environmental education.
Youth in Action: Tipping the Legislative Balance by Tim Grant
A group of inner city students join the campaign to pass
an important environmental bill in the state legislature.
Thinking Spatially: GIS in the High School
Classroom by Marsha Alibrandi
Introducing Geographic Information Systems
The One World Cake by Jackie Kirk
This simple and adaptable recipe provides a tasty focal
point for exploring how our food links us to people and
places around the world.
Protecting Our Urban Forests by Judith Benson
The Adopt-an-Elm program in Saskatoon aims to increase
awareness of the value of trees in the urban environment
and to help slow the invasion of Dutch elm disease.
Water Conservation in Jordan by "Mona Grieser, Barbara Rawlins, Khulood
Tubaishat"
Developing a hands-on water conservation curriculum in
this arid land required a sensitivity to traditional sex
roles and a dramatic departure from traditional teaching
methodologies.
Teaching about Hunger by Daniel Kriesberg
Exploring the topic of hunger in grades 4-6 is an
avenue to understanding environmental problems, global
economics and the politics of food aid.
Planet Earth: The
Outdoor Classroom (available online) by Matt Neilsen, Andrea Swanson, Char Bezanson,
Nalani McCutcheon, Gary Deason, Craig Johnson, Bill
Lindquist (SNAP)
Focus on investigating local ecosystems, whether in
the schoolyard or further afield.
Inside the
Internet: Ecotheology on the net (available online)
by Richard Kool
And as
always, over 20 new educational resources are profiled and
evaluated in this issue of Green Teacher.
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