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Offline Resources

These are Buddy Project picks of offline resources for teachers including suggested movies and a reading list.

Movies

Arctic Tale (2007)

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Nanu, a polar bear cub, and Seela, the walrus pup, rely on their mothers’ guidance and their own natural instincts to live in their world of snow and ice. The movie’s website provides additional videos, photos, and fact sheets about this changing environment affected by global warming. National Geographic

Ferngully: The Last Rain Forest (1992)

"The magical inhabitants of a rainforest called FernGully fight to save their home that is threatened by logging and a polluting force of destruction called Hexxus." Animated

March of the Penguins (2005)

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"Experience a journey like no other on the planet - one that spans hundreds of miles across a frozen continent. Braving icy winds, freezing temperatures and starvation, this is the incredible true story of a family's quest to bring new life into the world."
National Geographic / Warner Independent Films

 

Teacher Reading List

Exploring the Environment Through Children’s Literature: An Integrated Approach

by Carol and John Butzbow (Teacher Ideas Press, 1999) Uses children’s literature to peak interest in the environment while building skills across the K-5th grade curriculum with activities and project ideas.

The Green Book, Saving the Planet One Simple Step at a Time

by Elizabeth Rogers and Thomas M. Kostigen (Three Rivers Press, 2007) Easy how-to tips on living more green and simple, practical solutions for saving our environment.

Green Teacher Magazine

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Quarterly magazine provides educators of students ages 6-18, information and ideas for enhancing environmental education.

Greening School Grounds

by Tim Grant and Gail Littlejohn (New Society Publishers, 2001) Strategies for transforming schoolyards into a natural learning environment that extends teaching outside of the school walls.

Teaching Green Series

Teaching Green - The Elementary Years: Hands-on Learning in Grades K-5
Teaching Green - The Middle Years: Hands-on Learning in Grades 6-8
Teaching Green - The High School Years: Hands-on Learning in Grades 9-12
by Tim Grant and Gail Littlejohn (New Society Publishers, 2004) Editors of Green Teacher magazine offer grade-level appropriate, hands-on learning guides which provide information, learning activities and exemplary school projects concerning environmental issues.

 

Student Reading List

A Child's Introduction to the Environment: The Air, Earth, and Sea Around Us- Plus Experiments, Projects, and Activities YOU Can Do to Help Our Planet!

by Michael Driscoll and Dennis Driscoll (Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers, 2008) Readers explore water, land and air environments, through various projects and experiments. (suggested grade levels 3-8)

The Green Book, Saving the Planet One Simple Step at a Time

by Elizabeth Rogers and Thomas M. Kostigen (Three Rivers Press, 2007) Easy how-to tips on living more green and simple, practical solutions for saving our environment. (suggested grade levels 9-12)

Miss Rumphius

by Barbara Cooney (Puffin, 1985) Miss Rumphius scatters lupine seeds everywhere she goes and inspires her niece to wonder how to go about making the world more beautiful. (suggested grade levels K-5)

Recycle Every Day!

by Nancy Elizabeth Wallace (Marshall Cavendish Children's Books, 2006) This simple story conveys a big message about reusing and recycling through a school’s poster contest. (suggested grade levels K-2) Visit this literature link featured in our companion publication Write Connections.

Snowy White World to Save

by Stephanie Lisa Tara (Brown Books Publishing Group, 2007) This gentle story introduces listeners or readers to the environmental concerns of global warming and its effects on a polar bear family. (suggested grade levels K-5) Visit this literature link featured in our companion publication Write Connections.

This Is My Planet: The Kids’ Guide to Global Warming

by Jan Thornhill (Maple Tree Press Inc., 2007) Students are provided information and tools for understanding the concept of global warming and what they can do to help planet earth. (suggested grade levels 3-8)

The Water Hole

by Graeme Base (Harry N. Abrams 2001) A multitude of learning concepts within this story centered on the dwindling water supply at the water hole visited by the animals. (suggested grade levels K-5) Visit this literature link featured in our companion publication Write Connections.

 

This "Go Green" resource was developed by Buddy for an eco-education initiative, "Green Connections: Learning and Living." This initiative will run from February 1 through Earth Day on April 22, 2009.

This resource appeared in the ETC...and More! volume 2, number 5 newsletter and is published by the Buddy Project (Corporation for Educational Technology), in collaboration with the Hoosier Educational Computer Coordinators (HECC), Indiana Computer Educators (ICE), the Indiana Department of Education, and Promoting Achievement through Technology and INstruction for all Students (PATINS).