Reading Terrain magazine's latest issues, got me going on a new list for students and teachers looking for sustainability links:
6-12th grade
•a visit to City Slicker Farm- good way to introduce idea of urban farming and local social justice issues specifically in regards to food security.
•Grist.org: an engaging environmental web site
•Terrain's "Teens with Green" reading list by Rachel Aronowitz:
Flush and Hoot by Carl Hissen;
Teen, Inc. by Stefan Petrucha;
Thoreau's Walden by John Porcellino (a graphic novel);
Generation Green: The Ultimate Teen Guide to Living an Eco-Friendly Life by Linda and Tosh Silvertsen;
My Space/OurPlanet: Change is Possible by the MySpace community with Jeca Taudte
•Brower Youth Award and Earth Island Institute Check out website/video and past award winners
K-5
• The Recycling Movie made by kids about recycling: request free copies by sending email to Craig Matis at cmatis@laurelschool.org or nclark@laurelschool.org
•Go to www.stopwaste.org to register for "Field trip program for Alameda County 4th and 5th grade classrooms focusing on the 4Rs - Reduce, Reuse, Recycle and Rot (compost) that includes a tour of the Davis Street Transfer Station to see recycling and garbage transfer operations, a presentation on the 4Rs and a hands-on activity.
All grades
• a visit to Martin Luther King School's Edible Schoolyard or at least to the website's inspiring videos featuring Ecole Bilingue Alumni parent Alice Waters talking about her idea for the schoolyard
•follow the Plastiki Expedition, the adventure of a boat built out of plastic bottles that will sail the Pacific to chronicle the plastic waste. This story and the New Yorker article about it can be paired with the new movie Addicted to Plastic (see below)
•Eco Center's Education links
Awesome Local Professional Development Ops in Sustainability:
•Center for Eco-Literacy
•Brower Center Programs and Exhibitions
•see the latest on-line essays written by Eco Literacy Staff and Fritjof Capra's article
Good brand new movies for grades 7-12 students:
Burning the Future see New York Times Review
Addicted to Plastic
