Review: “My Backyard” CD
REVIEW FROM OUR SPRING 2013 ISSUE
May 17
Climbing Trees
Examining the benefits and what is needed in order to establish a climbing program
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When Nature Speaks
Using role-play and dramatic activities to encourage feelings of environmental connectedness in children.
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Hemlock Holmes: Tree Detective
Teach elementary students about trees and their ring patterns by solving environmental science mysteries.
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The Nature-Study Movement
Revisiting this historic movement reinforces the need to encourage all young children integrate art and science when engaging with the natural world
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Doing Business in Birmingham
This award-winning project leverages technology to help students understand and promote sustainability within the local business community.
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Training the Next Generation of Leaders
The Young Adults Environmental Leadership Program provides youth aged 12 to 18 with training, expertise and guidance in developing and implementing community environmental projects
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Green School in Bali
Recently voted the Greenest School on Earth by the US Green Building Council, this article describes the school and some of the projects underway.
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Coconutty Classes
A profile of a 3 week thematic unit for grades 6-8 that focuses on a tropical fruit that masquerades as a nut.
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Visualizing More Sustainable Futures
Contemporary education ignores the future but sustainability education requires it. Here’s a compelling rationale and some activities that will help young people think more critically and creatively about the future.
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Two-Eyed Seeing As a Way of Knowing
Two-Eyed Seeing (also known as integrative science, native science, and ecological metissage) is a term describing a way of understanding the world from two cultural perspectives – Western scientific knowledge and native science.
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Butterflies and Biomimicry
How 10-15 year olds can put to work the unique properties of Morpho Butterfly wings to help solve human problems.
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Unleashing blessed unrest as the heating happens
How learning spaces can help to avoid the worst scenarios now before us and four learning activities to engage young people.
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Activity: Climate Change Denial
Exploring the phenomenon of climate change denial, what lies behind it and the dangers it presents, and considering what might be done.
An activity from "Unleashing blessed unrest as the heating happens"
