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Green Teacher is a magazine that helps youth educators enhance environmental and global education inside and outside of schools.
Download a free issue of Green Teacher, and try our new page-flipping format!
Teaching Green - The Elementary Years: Hands-on Learning in Grades K-5
Subtitled "Hands-on Learning in Grades K-5," this brand new 240-page large-format paperback contains over 50 of the best teaching strategies and activities contributed to Green Teacher, the non-profit magazine during the past decade. Almost all were updated and revised for this special 2005 anthology. As in their 2004 book Teaching Green - The Middle Years (for Grades 6-8), Toronto editors Tim Grant and Gail Littlejohn have assembled a wealth of kid-tested ideas contributed by educators from across North America, covering a wide spectrum of environmental topics and presenting a large diversity of practical projects and learning strategies.
In the "Approaches to Learning" section, readers will find innovative ideas for exploring the natural world, promoting environmental citizenship and integrated project-based learning, along with opportunities for taking action and practicing authentic democracy. A particularly interesting article is "Guiding Your School Toward Environmental Literacy," which outlines a step-by-step whole-school approach used successfully by dozens of Calgary schools over the past decade to evaluate what a school is already doing and then develop a workable plan.
In "Exploring Nature Around Us," the largest section of the book, a first grade teacher describes taking her class on an overnight trip; a naturalist suggests ways to get the most out of a pond study; an article titled "The Numbered Forest" gives ides for incorporating schoolyard trees into mathematics lessons. One author describes how observing patterns in nature -- such as the nest-building behaviour of squirrels -- can help students to discover basic concepts of ecology. Two others discuss the use of creative journals as a springboard to fresh insights and discoveries about the natural world!
The "Plants and Animals" section includes activities for studying forests and monarch butterflies, as well as a "Great Lakes Food Web Drama" and instructions for creating a tropical rainforest simulation in a school gym. One of the most compelling articles looks at the research showing that having animals in the classroom contributes both to learning and to the development of empathy and respect for all living creatures. Included are useful guidelines for animal care and recommendations on the most appropriate classroom pets.
While the book focuses on helping kids develop a strong connection with the natural world, there are many articles that focus on the social and global aspects of our environment. For example, readers will find activities for promoting global awareness in kindergarten, ideas for organizing a school-wide Development Days theme, and a recipe for baking a "One World Cake" to help students understand how food links us to people and places all around the world. One section describes a variety of projects to link school and community, such as creating community green maps, developing waste-free lunch programs and building watershed models that educate the community about local threats to water quality. The final section presents ideas for exploring the environment through literature, imagination and celebration.
The book is attractively designed and organized, and, for each article and activity, the editors have identified appropriate grade levels, subject areas, key concepts, skills, and materials. One other teacher-friendly detail is the practical "lay-flat" binding. The hands-on projects and learning strategies in Teaching Green - The Elementary Years are sure to inspire all educators who are seeking innovative ideas for incorporating green themes into their programs.
Teaching Green - The Middle Years: Hands-on Learning in Grades 6-8
Teaching Green – The Middle Years was designed to serve as a complete “green” teaching resource for those working with middle school-aged youth, inside or outside of schools. Readers will find a wealth of kid-tested ideas contributed by educators from across North America and covering a wide spectrum of environmental topics, from biodiversity to resource consumption to green technology. They include practical projects and new learning strategies that will inspire educators seeking innovative ideas for incorporating green themes into their programs.
The learning activities and teaching strategies in the book engage adolescents in learning the fundamentals of citizenship for the 21st century. Some provide strategies that help young people learn about the ecosystems where they live, and what is needed to sustain them. Others explore what it takes to live sustainably on this planet. Some help students recognize global disparities in resource use and their connections with other people and other species that share this planet. Finally, other articles and activities provide opportunities for young people to develop and reflect on their values. All of these elements are critically important in enabling adolescents to make sense of their world.
Those who have spent time with young people between the ages of 10-15 years know that they are going through major mental, physical, and emotional changes. This is reason enough for us to develop more effective learning strategies for working with young people inside or outside of schools. In this book: students and teachers are engaged in active leadership; partnerships are fostered between schools and their communities; curriculum is relevant, integrative, exploratory and developmentally appropriate; multiple learning strategies are used and interdisciplinary team teaching is employed.
We have designed this book to be welcoming to those less familiar with environmental and global education. On the first page of most articles, readers will find a handy summary box that indicates the subject relevance and the key concepts. If the article includes one or more activities, the summary box also lists the skills to be developed as well as the time requirements and materials needed. At the back of the book, a glossary defines terms that may be new to some readers, and a subject index directs readers to the articles and activities associated with 11 subject areas.
The environmental and social problems bedeviling humankind will not be solved by the same kind of education that helped create these problems. It is our hope that this book will invigorate a large number of educators, so that education can once again actively contribute to the enhancement and restoration of our troubled, but extraordinary planet.
Teaching Green - The High School Years: Hands-on Learning in Grades...
Teaching Green: The High School Years is an ideal resource for anyone working with young people in Grades 9-12, whether in schools or in non-formal educational settings. Richly illustrated, it offers teaching strategies that promote learning about natural systems and foster critical thinking about environmental issues, both local and global. It contains new approaches to learning, strategies for living sustainably, and numerous activities that promote interdisciplinary learning. In addition, the book provides suggestions for greening individual subject areas, developing integrated learning programs, and replicating exemplary programs already created by innovative schools and communities.
Containing contributions from 55 educators from across North America, the book’s strength lies in its diverse content. Topics include measuring the ecological footprint of a high school, creating an indoor “living system” that cleans water, using lichens as bio-indicators for monitoring air quality and using green technologies to help green school campuses.
The learning activities and teaching strategies in the book engage teenagers in learning the fundamentals of citizenship for the 21st century. Some provide strategies that help them learn about the ecosystems where they live, and what is needed to sustain them. Others explore what it takes to live sustainably on this planet. Some help teens recognize global disparities in resource use and their connections with other people and other species that share this planet. Finally, other articles and activities provide opportunities for young people to develop and reflect on their values. All of these elements are critically important in enabling teenagers make sense of their world.
We have designed this book to be welcoming to those less familiar with environmental and global education. On the first page of most articles, readers will find a handy summary box that indicates the subject relevance and the key concepts. If the article includes one or more activities, the summary box also lists the skills to be developed as well as the time requirements and materials needed. The table of contents indicates which subject areas are associated with each article and at the back of the book, a glossary defines terms that may be new to some readers.
Readers will find accessible background information and suggestions for many practical projects and activities. It is sure to appeal to a wide range of teachers and other educators seeking innovative ideas for incorporating green themes into their programs.
Greening School Grounds: Creating Habitats for Learning
Schoolyard “greening” is an excellent way to promote hands-on, interdisciplinary learning through projects that benefit schools and increase green space and biodiversity in communities. In this popular anthology from Green Teacher magazine, readers will find step-by-step instructions for numerous schoolyard projects, from tree nurseries to school composting to native plant gardens, along with ideas for enhancing learning by addressing the diverse needs of students. Among more than a dozen schoolyard habitat options presented, the guide includes detailed articles on rooftop gardens, far-north gardens, desert gardens, butterfly gardens, ponds and prairie restorations. For project planners, there are practical tips on minimizing vandalism, maximizing participation and raising funds. And for teachers, there are dozens of outdoor classroom activities and curriculum links, a bibliography of learning resources, and up-to-date listings of funders and training organizations. Greening School Grounds is a compendium of the best schoolyard greening articles and activities from Green Teacher.
Teaching About Climate Change: Cool Schools Tackle Global Warming
Helping teachers and students to tackle the challenging topic of climate change, this anthology from Green Teacher offers a framework for teaching fundamental concepts and a variety of activities that can be undertaken in school, at home or in the community. Teachers will find practical ideas for making the intangibles of climate change more concrete to students, including experiments that demonstrate the greenhouse effect, school energy and waste audits, and hands-on explorations of energy and transportation alternatives from solar cookers to bike-a-thons. Up-to-date lists of learning resources and related organizations round out the collection of the best of Green Teacher on the topic of climate change.
Des idées fraîches à l’école: Activités et projets pour contrer les...
Des idées fraîches à l’école est une adaptation française de Teaching About Climate Change, réalisée par ERE Éducation, société de consultants spécialisés en éducation pour un avenir viable.
La problématique des changements climatiques constitue l’un des plus importants defies auxquels l’humanité debra fair face en ce 21e siècle. Et c’est à nous, enseignants et parents, d’aider les citoyens et les dirigeants de demain à relever ce défi efficacement.
Des idées fraîches à l’école a été conçu pour appuyer notre démarche. A travers ce recueil d’articles, des intervenants du domaine de l’éducation de partout en Amérique du Nord (enseignants, conseillers pédagogieques, animateurs de vie scolaire, etc.) partagent avec nous leurs réflexions et leur expertise en matière d’éducation aux changement climatiques.Des idées fraîches à l’école nous propose:
• des informations vulgarisées sur les gaz à effet de serre et sur les causes et les conséquences des changements climatiques actuels;
• des idées d’activités et des projets à réaliser à l’école, à la maison et dans la communauté pour aider les jeunes à comprendre la problématique des changements climatiques et les stimule à s’engager concrètement à les contrer;
• des expériences simples permettant d’illustre l’effet de serre;
• des solutions de remplacement, en matière d’énergie et de transport, à l’utilisation des combustibles fossiles responsables de l’émission de gaz à effet de serre;
• des outils pédogogiques pratiques (jeu de table, modèle de sondage, calcul du bilan énergétique de la maison, de l’école, etc);
• une liste à jour des ressources éducatives et organismes oeuvrant dans les domaines de l’énergie renouvelable, de l’efficacité énergétique et des changements climatiques
Green Teacher is a magazine that helps youth educators enhance environmental and global education inside and outside of schools.
Download a free issue of Green Teacher, and try our new page-flipping format!
Teaching Green - The Elementary Years: Hands-on Learning in Grades K-5
Subtitled "Hands-on Learning in Grades K-5," this brand new 240-page large-format paperback contains over 50 of the best teaching strategies and activities contributed to Green Teacher, the non-profit magazine during the past decade. Almost all were updated and revised for this special 2005 anthology. As in their 2004 book Teaching Green - The Middle Years (for Grades 6-8), Toronto editors Tim Grant and Gail Littlejohn have assembled a wealth of kid-tested ideas contributed by educators from across North America, covering a wide spectrum of environmental topics and presenting a large diversity of practical projects and learning strategies.
In the "Approaches to Learning" section, readers will find innovative ideas for exploring the natural world, promoting environmental citizenship and integrated project-based learning, along with opportunities for taking action and practicing authentic democracy. A particularly interesting article is "Guiding Your School Toward Environmental Literacy," which outlines a step-by-step whole-school approach used successfully by dozens of Calgary schools over the past decade to evaluate what a school is already doing and then develop a workable plan.
In "Exploring Nature Around Us," the largest section of the book, a first grade teacher describes taking her class on an overnight trip; a naturalist suggests ways to get the most out of a pond study; an article titled "The Numbered Forest" gives ides for incorporating schoolyard trees into mathematics lessons. One author describes how observing patterns in nature -- such as the nest-building behaviour of squirrels -- can help students to discover basic concepts of ecology. Two others discuss the use of creative journals as a springboard to fresh insights and discoveries about the natural world!
The "Plants and Animals" section includes activities for studying forests and monarch butterflies, as well as a "Great Lakes Food Web Drama" and instructions for creating a tropical rainforest simulation in a school gym. One of the most compelling articles looks at the research showing that having animals in the classroom contributes both to learning and to the development of empathy and respect for all living creatures. Included are useful guidelines for animal care and recommendations on the most appropriate classroom pets.
While the book focuses on helping kids develop a strong connection with the natural world, there are many articles that focus on the social and global aspects of our environment. For example, readers will find activities for promoting global awareness in kindergarten, ideas for organizing a school-wide Development Days theme, and a recipe for baking a "One World Cake" to help students understand how food links us to people and places all around the world. One section describes a variety of projects to link school and community, such as creating community green maps, developing waste-free lunch programs and building watershed models that educate the community about local threats to water quality. The final section presents ideas for exploring the environment through literature, imagination and celebration.
The book is attractively designed and organized, and, for each article and activity, the editors have identified appropriate grade levels, subject areas, key concepts, skills, and materials. One other teacher-friendly detail is the practical "lay-flat" binding. The hands-on projects and learning strategies in Teaching Green - The Elementary Years are sure to inspire all educators who are seeking innovative ideas for incorporating green themes into their programs.
Teaching Green - The Middle Years: Hands-on Learning in Grades 6-8
Teaching Green – The Middle Years was designed to serve as a complete “green” teaching resource for those working with middle school-aged youth, inside or outside of schools. Readers will find a wealth of kid-tested ideas contributed by educators from across North America and covering a wide spectrum of environmental topics, from biodiversity to resource consumption to green technology. They include practical projects and new learning strategies that will inspire educators seeking innovative ideas for incorporating green themes into their programs.
The learning activities and teaching strategies in the book engage adolescents in learning the fundamentals of citizenship for the 21st century. Some provide strategies that help young people learn about the ecosystems where they live, and what is needed to sustain them. Others explore what it takes to live sustainably on this planet. Some help students recognize global disparities in resource use and their connections with other people and other species that share this planet. Finally, other articles and activities provide opportunities for young people to develop and reflect on their values. All of these elements are critically important in enabling adolescents to make sense of their world.
Those who have spent time with young people between the ages of 10-15 years know that they are going through major mental, physical, and emotional changes. This is reason enough for us to develop more effective learning strategies for working with young people inside or outside of schools. In this book: students and teachers are engaged in active leadership; partnerships are fostered between schools and their communities; curriculum is relevant, integrative, exploratory and developmentally appropriate; multiple learning strategies are used and interdisciplinary team teaching is employed.
We have designed this book to be welcoming to those less familiar with environmental and global education. On the first page of most articles, readers will find a handy summary box that indicates the subject relevance and the key concepts. If the article includes one or more activities, the summary box also lists the skills to be developed as well as the time requirements and materials needed. At the back of the book, a glossary defines terms that may be new to some readers, and a subject index directs readers to the articles and activities associated with 11 subject areas.
The environmental and social problems bedeviling humankind will not be solved by the same kind of education that helped create these problems. It is our hope that this book will invigorate a large number of educators, so that education can once again actively contribute to the enhancement and restoration of our troubled, but extraordinary planet.
Teaching Green - The High School Years: Hands-on Learning in Grades...
Teaching Green: The High School Years is an ideal resource for anyone working with young people in Grades 9-12, whether in schools or in non-formal educational settings. Richly illustrated, it offers teaching strategies that promote learning about natural systems and foster critical thinking about environmental issues, both local and global. It contains new approaches to learning, strategies for living sustainably, and numerous activities that promote interdisciplinary learning. In addition, the book provides suggestions for greening individual subject areas, developing integrated learning programs, and replicating exemplary programs already created by innovative schools and communities.
Containing contributions from 55 educators from across North America, the book’s strength lies in its diverse content. Topics include measuring the ecological footprint of a high school, creating an indoor “living system” that cleans water, using lichens as bio-indicators for monitoring air quality and using green technologies to help green school campuses.
The learning activities and teaching strategies in the book engage teenagers in learning the fundamentals of citizenship for the 21st century. Some provide strategies that help them learn about the ecosystems where they live, and what is needed to sustain them. Others explore what it takes to live sustainably on this planet. Some help teens recognize global disparities in resource use and their connections with other people and other species that share this planet. Finally, other articles and activities provide opportunities for young people to develop and reflect on their values. All of these elements are critically important in enabling teenagers make sense of their world.
We have designed this book to be welcoming to those less familiar with environmental and global education. On the first page of most articles, readers will find a handy summary box that indicates the subject relevance and the key concepts. If the article includes one or more activities, the summary box also lists the skills to be developed as well as the time requirements and materials needed. The table of contents indicates which subject areas are associated with each article and at the back of the book, a glossary defines terms that may be new to some readers.
Readers will find accessible background information and suggestions for many practical projects and activities. It is sure to appeal to a wide range of teachers and other educators seeking innovative ideas for incorporating green themes into their programs.
Greening School Grounds: Creating Habitats for Learning
Schoolyard “greening” is an excellent way to promote hands-on, interdisciplinary learning through projects that benefit schools and increase green space and biodiversity in communities. In this popular anthology from Green Teacher magazine, readers will find step-by-step instructions for numerous schoolyard projects, from tree nurseries to school composting to native plant gardens, along with ideas for enhancing learning by addressing the diverse needs of students. Among more than a dozen schoolyard habitat options presented, the guide includes detailed articles on rooftop gardens, far-north gardens, desert gardens, butterfly gardens, ponds and prairie restorations. For project planners, there are practical tips on minimizing vandalism, maximizing participation and raising funds. And for teachers, there are dozens of outdoor classroom activities and curriculum links, a bibliography of learning resources, and up-to-date listings of funders and training organizations. Greening School Grounds is a compendium of the best schoolyard greening articles and activities from Green Teacher.
Teaching About Climate Change: Cool Schools Tackle Global Warming
Helping teachers and students to tackle the challenging topic of climate change, this anthology from Green Teacher offers a framework for teaching fundamental concepts and a variety of activities that can be undertaken in school, at home or in the community. Teachers will find practical ideas for making the intangibles of climate change more concrete to students, including experiments that demonstrate the greenhouse effect, school energy and waste audits, and hands-on explorations of energy and transportation alternatives from solar cookers to bike-a-thons. Up-to-date lists of learning resources and related organizations round out the collection of the best of Green Teacher on the topic of climate change.
Des idées fraîches à l’école: Activités et projets pour contrer les...
Des idées fraîches à l’école est une adaptation française de Teaching About Climate Change, réalisée par ERE Éducation, société de consultants spécialisés en éducation pour un avenir viable.
La problématique des changements climatiques constitue l’un des plus importants defies auxquels l’humanité debra fair face en ce 21e siècle. Et c’est à nous, enseignants et parents, d’aider les citoyens et les dirigeants de demain à relever ce défi efficacement.
Des idées fraîches à l’école a été conçu pour appuyer notre démarche. A travers ce recueil d’articles, des intervenants du domaine de l’éducation de partout en Amérique du Nord (enseignants, conseillers pédagogieques, animateurs de vie scolaire, etc.) partagent avec nous leurs réflexions et leur expertise en matière d’éducation aux changement climatiques.Des idées fraîches à l’école nous propose:
• des informations vulgarisées sur les gaz à effet de serre et sur les causes et les conséquences des changements climatiques actuels;
• des idées d’activités et des projets à réaliser à l’école, à la maison et dans la communauté pour aider les jeunes à comprendre la problématique des changements climatiques et les stimule à s’engager concrètement à les contrer;
• des expériences simples permettant d’illustre l’effet de serre;
• des solutions de remplacement, en matière d’énergie et de transport, à l’utilisation des combustibles fossiles responsables de l’émission de gaz à effet de serre;
• des outils pédogogiques pratiques (jeu de table, modèle de sondage, calcul du bilan énergétique de la maison, de l’école, etc);
• une liste à jour des ressources éducatives et organismes oeuvrant dans les domaines de l’énergie renouvelable, de l’efficacité énergétique et des changements climatiques
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