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Books 

Berenstein, Stan & Jan. The Berenstein Bears Don't Pollute (Anymore), Random House, New York, 1991.

Cherry, Lynn. The Great Kapok Tree. A Tale of the Amazon Rain Forest. San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1990.

Glaser, Linda. Compost! Growing Gardens From Your Garbage. Millbrook Press.

Greenaway, Theresa. Cycles In Nature Food Chains. Steck-Vaughn, Austin-New York. 2001. 

Hawkes, Nigel.  Climate Crisis,  Millbrook Press/Copper Beech Books, April 2000. 

Wright, Alexandra. Will We Miss Them? Endangered Species. Charsbridge 
Publishing, MA. 1992.

 

Books and Magazines For Resource Table

50 Simple Things YOU Can Do to Save the Earth. Earthworks Press: United States, 1989.

Amos, Janine.  Animals In Danger, Steck-Vaughn Co., Texas. 1993.

Burton, Robert. Wildlife in Danger. Morristown, New Jersey: Silver Burdett Co., 1993.

Earthworks Group. The Student Environmental Action Guide. 25 Simple Things We Can Do. Berkeley: Earthworks Press, 1991.

Elwood, Ann. Zoobooks: Saving Our Animal Friends. San Diego: Wildlife Education, Ltd., 1990.

Field, Nancy and Sally Machlis. Discovering Endangered Species. A Learning and Activity Book. Corvallis, Oregon: Dog-Eared Publications, 1990.

Geisel, Theodor Suess.  The Lorax. New York: Random House, 1971 .

Hollender, Jeffrey. How to Make the World a Better Place: 116 Ways You Can Make A Difference. W.W. Norton and Co., Inc: Boston and London, 1995.

James, Barbara.  Conserving Our World, Waste And Recycling, Steck-Vaughn, Texas. 1990.

Landau, Elaine. Endangered Plants, A First Book. New York.1992.

Lepthien, Emilie U. Manatees, Children's Press, Chicago.

Stille, Darlenme R.  Oil Spills, Children's Press, Connecticut, 1991.

Stone, Lynne. Vanishing Rain Forest. The Rourke Corporation, Inc., Florida, 1994.

Vancleave, Janice. Ecology For Every Kid, John Wiley & Sons, Inc,. New York. 1996.

Woodburn, Judith. The Acid Rain Hazard, Environment Alert!, Gareth Stevens Publishing, Milwaukee. 1959.

Websites

EPA Glossary  from a-z about the environment.  It can be used for all lessons.

http://oncampus.richmond.edu/academics/as/education/projects/webunits/biomes/biomes.html
This site has excellent pictures of all biomes, and lessons that were done by other teachers and students as part of the University of Richmond's study.

http://mobot.org/MOBOT/research/
This site is the research search engine from the Missouri Botanical Garden site.

http://wwf.org
This site is for the World Wildlife Fund which has pictures and information on the various life forms on earth.

http://yahooligans.com 
This is the children's version of the search directory Yahoo! 

http://m-w.com/
Merriam-Webster Online provides a dictionary, thesaurus and variety of word games and products.

http://members.tripod.com/~jane2bob/index.html  Just Jane graphics.

http://kidsdomain.com/holiday/earthday/cando.html  What Can I Do? A Story.

http://epa.gov/students/index.html   Dictionary.

http://oneworld.org/penguin/global_warming/climate_home.html Tiki the Penguin talks about global warming.

http://epa.gov/globalwarming/kids/gw.html

http://arm.gov/docs/education/aboutarm.html  The Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Program is an important part of the U.S. Department of Energy's

http://encarta.msn.com/find/concise.asp?ti=761567022&sid=1#s1  global warming

Get The Facts at  http://kidsplanet.org/

Endangered  http://epa.gov/kids/plants.htm

http://geography4kids.com/  - click on land, check out biome, food chain

http://eco-pros.com/endangeredspecies.htm Learn about endangered species.

http://pbs.org/saf/1106/ The Public Broadcasting Station.

http://endangered.fws.gov/kids/index.html  - Click on creature features and copy animal illustrations that you can color.

http://ecokids.earthday.ca/pub/splash.cfm - Learn about whales that are endangered.

http://epa.gov/kids/  to find out about air pollution, water, and endangered species.

http://epa.gov/espp/poster/ Order free poster on endangered species.

http://geography4kids.com/  - Click on land, check out biome, food chain.

http://kidsdomain.com/craft/  Make crafts.

 

 

 

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