�Growing Up Green� Resource List
compiled by Elizabeth Tarvin


Music used the during presentation came from:

Tom Chapin�s �This Pretty Planet� cd
Raffi�s �Evergreen, Everblue� cd

Links:


Funding for environmental projects:

http://www.recycleok.org/pdf/ee-funding-list08.pdf (List of national grant opportunities for environmental education)

Websites for teachers:


http://www.amnh.org/ology/?channel=biodiversity&c#channel 

http://www.kidsfootprint.org/lessonplans.htm

http://www.environmentaleducationohio.org/inquirylessons.html

http://www.dallaszooed.com/weblessons/index.php

http://www.atozteacherstuff.com/Themes/Recycling/

http://teacher.scholastic.com/lessonplans/recycling/

http://www.theteachersguide.com/Recyclinglessonplans.htm

http://www.lessonplanet.com/search?keywords=Recycling

http://www2.scholastic.com/browse/collection.jsp?id=390&ESP=/ib/20081125/awa/new%20lesson_smp_coal_main///lplp/img////

http://www.eartheasy.com/article_enviro_sites_kids.htm (provides a whole list of great websites for children)

Websites for students:

http://pbskids.org/eekoworld/

http://www.eere.energy.gov/kids/games.html (games related to energy)

http://www.ecokids.ca/pub/kids_home.cfm (great games)

http://airnow.gov/index.cfm?action=aqikids_new.main (games about air quality)

http://urbanext.illinois.edu/woods/ (A virtual walk in the woods)

http://www.kidsfootprint.org/index.html (Quiz to measure your eco. footprint)

http://www.getenergysmart.com/EnergyEducation/Student.aspx

http://kids.nationalgeographic.com/

http://lorax.conservation.org/

http://www.ecokidsonline.com/pub/games_activities/index.cfm

http://www.seco.cpa.state.tx.us/seco_links-kids.htm

http://www.epa.gov/recyclecity/mainmap.htm

http:/www.redlist.org/search/search-basic.html (endangered species database)

www.unep.org/Document/Default.asp?DocumentID=295 (UN Environment Program�s youth site)

www.greenpeace.org/international_en 

www.cat.org.uk (Center for the Alternative Technology � to see demonstrations of all types of environment-friendly inventions)

Interesting articles:

http://training.fws.gov/history/carson/carsonwonder.pdf

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E0CE2D7133BF933A0575BC0A964958260


Professional Development opportunities:

http://www.environmentaleducationohio.org/gti.html

http://www.celfoundation.org/summerinstitute08/


Site with lists of children�s literature:

http://teachers.net/archive/envirobks.html

http://www.dnr.state.wi.us/org/caer/ce/eek/teacher/pdf/Literaturelist.pdf

http://www.childsake.com/

http://www.thegreenguide.com/doc/105/books

http://www.bankstreetbooks.com/index.php/cPath/252


Children�s Literature:

Taking Action

A Child�s Introduction to the Environment: The air, earth, and sea around us � plus experiments, projects, and activities you can do to help out, Driscoll
A Hot Planet Needs Cool Kids: Understanding Climate change and what you can do about it, Hall and Lane
Clean up Litter (Help the Environment series), Guillain
True Green Kids: 100 Things you can do to save the planet (National Geographic), McKay and Bonnin
The Kid�s Guide to Service Projects, Lewis
Every Kid�s Guide to Saving the Earth, Berry
Fifty Simple Things Kids Can Do to Save the Earth, The Earthworks Group

Fiction for older kids

Deadly Waters: A mystery in Everglades National Park, (Series) Skurzynski and Ferguson
Gaia Girls Enter the Earth, (Series) Welles
Hoot, Hiassen

Fiction (picture books)

A Grand Old Tree, DePalma
A Possible Tree, Aldridge
A River Ran Wild, Cherry
Aani and the Tree Huggers, Atkins
Blackbird Singing, Bunting
Brother Eagle, Sister Sky, Jeffers
Common Ground, Bang
Deadly Waters (A mystery in Everglades National Park), Skurzynski 
Fire Bug Connection, The, George 
Gaia Girls: Enter the Earth, Welles
Just a Dream, Allsburg
Letting Swift River Go, Yolen
Michael Recycle, Bethel
Planting the Trees of Kenya, Nivola
Our Big Home: An Earth Poem, Glaser
The Swan Song, Lewis and Wormell
The Giving Tree, Silverstein
The Great Kapok Tree, Cherry
The Little House, Burton
The Lorax, Seuss
The Salamander Room, Mazer
The Sea, the Storm, and the Magrove Tangle, Cherry
The Tin Forest, Ward
The Tree, Lyons 
Swan Song, Lewis
The Tree Farmer, Leavell
Weslandia, Fleischman
Wump World, Peet
Weslandia, Fleisman

Nonfiction 

Come Back, Salmon, Cone
Common Ground, Bang
Earth Watch: Protecting our Planet, Dorling Kindersley
Endangered Planet, Burnie
Fernando�s Gift, Keister
Geothermal Power (series), Sherman
Hybrid Cars (Our Environment series), Povey
I Wonder Why Ther�s a Hole in the Sky: and Other Questions About the Environment, Callery
Jungle Rescue: Saving the New World Tropical Rain Forest, Miller and Berry
Ocean Watch: Protecting our Planet, Dorling Kindersley
People and the Environment (First Step Nonfiction Series)
Rachel Carson, Latham
Save our Prairies and Grasslands (Hirschi)
Solar Power of the Future: New ways of turning sunlight into energy (series), Jones
The Down-to Earth Guide to Global Warming, David and Gordon
The Kid�s Guide to Service Projects, Lewis
Tracking Trash, Burns
Why Save the Rain Forest?, Silver
Why should I bother about the planet?, Meredith
Why should I protect nature? (series) Gordon
Why should I recycle Garbage? Knight
Why should I switch off the light? Knight