Features
Ecology
Project Learning by Julie Tracy with Kathleen Glaser
In this integrated "nature immersion" program, K-5
students meet all curriculum outcomes through investigating,
monitoring and restoring schoolground habitats and local
ecosystems.
Streams by Frederick R. Wilson
STREAMS curriculum uses outdoor lessons about watershed
management as the integrating context for cross-curricular
studies in language arts, math, science, and social studies
lessons for grade six students.
A Matter of Debate by Ruth Ann DePitera, Joe Rossow and Gretchen Lange
In this integrated unit linking social studies, science and
language arts, grade six students get first-hand experience of
legislative processes by writing and debating environmental
protection laws..
Two Rivers Project
by Loris Chen
Thematic units on "backyard" environmental issues
provide a focus for seventh graders' attention during a year when
many adolescents are easily distracted.
Integrated Studies in Systems by Pam Martin
The Integrated Studies in Systems programs is a two-year
interdisciplinary program that uses the characteristics of
ecosystems as a framework for learning, in which grades 9 and 10
students earn credits in science, social science and language
arts.
Community Environmental Involvement
by Wayne B. Pikal and Ben Lindquist
Combining English, social studies and science, the CEI program is
engaging students in award-winning river studies from the banks
of banks of the Mississippi to the Miass River in Russia.
The Earth Community School: A back-to-basics model of
secondary education by Fans C. Verhagen
Secondary education model that uses environmental education, with
a focus on an "Earth Literacy Module", as the basis for
a multidisciplinary curriculum.
The Dhammayatra: Walking for Environmental Education in
Thailand by Peter Burt
Annual pilgrimage in southern Thailand connects rural villagers
and urban middle-class, furthering community efforts toward
improving environmental conservation and rural development.
North America's Environmental Education Organizations
Planet Earth Pages: Humane Education
by Sheilal Schwartz
Twenty-one activities for K-12 classes that help to raise
awareness of other people and places, with a focus on issues
related to development.
And as
always, over 20 new educational resources are profiled and
evaluated in this issue of Green Teacher.
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