Awareness to Citizenship Environmental Literacy for the Elementary Child

by Basile, Carole; White, Cameron; Robinson, Stacey

• ISBN13: 9780761817710
• ISBN10: 0761817719
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-09-06
• Publisher: UPA

Summary

Awareness to Citizenship - Environmental Literacy for the Elementary Child guides environmental educators, teachers, and parents, through the process of helping children to learn about the environment, respect living things, examine issues, make decisions, think critically, and become actively engaged as citizens within a community.

Table of Contents

Preface
Environmental Literacy and the Elementary Child	1	(10)
The Role of Social Studies in Environmental Literacy	11	(6)
An Integrated Professional Development Approach	17	(10)
Learning about the Environment: Teachers Becoming Naturalists	27	(24)
The Learning Journal	29	(3)
Dixie Dudley
A Day in the Life of a Spider	32	(3)
Lucianna Williams
Nature in the Country	35	(2)
Denise McAfee
Lenio & Lenio, Pet Detectives	37	(2)
Vicki Lenio
Your Backyard	39	(4)
Sharon Grimes
Jordan's Discoveries at the Park	43	(4)
Suzanne Fletcher
Nighttime in the Habitat	47	(1)
Sheila Brown
Treasure Hunting as a Naturalist	48	(2)
Cielo Perdomo
Z X Y Book	50	(1)
Dixie Dudley
Respecting Living Things	51	(10)
Facilitating Processes in a Democratic Classroom: Case Studies	61	(12)
Issue-Based Children's Literature	69	(4)
Stewardship: Stories of Children As Citizens	73	(64)
Visualize World Peace	74	(4)
Carol Landolt
Understanding Our Community	78	(3)
Lydia Olsen
``Outdoor Kids''	81	(5)
Vicki Lenio
It All Begins With a Story	86	(4)
Donna Menzies
The World We Share	90	(3)
Jan Robertson
What Science Book?	93	(3)
Sharon Grimes
Our Diary for the Birds	96	(6)
Mary Rhoden
Pull Out the Welcome Mats for Bats	102	(6)
Kim Steffanauer
My Story of Change in the Urban Environment	108	(9)
Marianne Phillips
My First Year in Kindergarten	117	(8)
Andria Powell
In Our Garden	125	(3)
Rebecca Lopez
Vicki Lindsey
Issues, Decision-Making, and Citizenship	128	(3)
EE Resources on the Web	131	(6)
Final Words about Environmental Literacy	137	(4)
Index	141