Electronic Collections

The following collections of articles and activities are drawn from past issues of Green Teacher magazine and grouped according to theme or curriculum area. The approximate grade level of each article and activity is indicated in brackets. Please note that the articles in these collections are "text- only" versions which do not include the photographs and illustrations that accompanied the original printed versions. Each collection ordered will be delivered to you by e-mail as a DOS-text (ASCII) file. You can expect to receive the file within one week of ordering. Articles and activities in the following collections cannot be reproduced or reprinted without permission from the editors of Green Teacher magazine.

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GT's Greatest Hits

7 articles/activities

• 1. Teaching Controversial Issues, by Pat Clarke, (Gr.4-12) GT31
  A four-step classroom strategy for clear thinking on controversial issues.
  
• 2. Educating for Action, William F Hammond, (K-12) GT50
  A framework for thinking about the place of action in environmental education.
  
• 3. Global Morning: A Consumer Awareness Activity, by Mary Gale Smith, (Gr.6-12) GT44
  An eye-opening lesson for secondary students on the implications of consumerism.
  
• 4. Paradigms Lost and the Myths We Teach Our Children, Mark W McElroy, (K-12) GT53
  Exposing the anti-environment attitudes hidden in our curriculum.
  
• 5. Humane Education: The Ultima Thule of Global Education, Part 1 by David Selby, (K-12) GT39
  The author surveys the field of humane education and explores its relation with human rights and environmental education.
  
• 6. Humane Education: The Ultima Thule of Global Education, Part 2 by David Selby, (K-12) GT40
  The author explores the relationship between humane education and peace and development education.
  
• 7. Celebrating Earth Week: It's Elemental, by Deanna Fry, (Gr.3- 8) GT53
  A collection of ideas, activities and resources for exploring and celebrating our connections to the earth during Earth Week.

GT's Greatest Hits II

8 articles/activities

• 1. The Importance of Biodiversity, by Terry Lawson Dunn, (Gr.8-12) GT36
  Addressing the root causes of local and global biodiversity loss is the key to understanding and working toward sustainable development.
  
• 2. Towards Environmental Literacy, by Jeff Reading, (K-8) GT32
  A five-step process enabling elementary schools to move towards a curriculum focussed on the environment.
  
• 3. The School in the Global Age, by Graham Pike and David Selby,(K-12) GT30
  The authors suggest five dimensions of a new framework for education.
  
• 4. Rethinking School Recyling, by Tim Grant, (K-12) GT28
  Waste reduction eases the burden of recycling and promotes ethics that will sustain us for the long term.
  
• 5. Encouraging children's love for the Earth, by Joseph Cornell, (Gr.K-8) GT23
  Five guiding principles that will heighten children's sensitivity and respect for the earth.
  
• 6. Remystifying the City, by Randy Haluza-DeLay, (K-12) GT52
  How to reawaken the sense of wonder in our own backyards.
  
• 7.Democratic Education for Environmental Stewardship, by PeterCorcoran and Margaret Pennock, (Gr.K-12) GT44
  Lessons from a school that has been practising authentic democracy for more than two decades

Transforming Schoolyards I

6 articles/activities

• 1. Transforming School Grounds, by Ann Coffey, (K-12) GT47
  A rationale for and history of the schoolground greening
  movement.
  
• 2. How Schoolyards Influence Behaviour, by Edward Cheskey, (K-12) GT47
  
• 3. Amphibian Oasis, by Heather Gosselin and Bob Johnson, (K-12) GT48
  Designing and building a schoolyard pond.
  
• 4. Butterfly Gardens, by Kim Denman, (Gr.2-8) GT47
  Designing and selecting suitable plants for a schoolground garden
  that will attract butterflies.
  
• 5. Creating a Schoolyard Tree Nursery, by Cathy Dueck, GT47
  
• 6. A Diverse Dozen: Habitats for Healthy School Grounds, Paul E Knoop, (K-12) GT47
  

Transforming Schoolyards II

6 articles/activities

• 1. Establishing a Naturalized Area, by Miriam Mutton and Debbie Smith, (K-12) GT34
  A step-by-step guide to planning and installing a natural area in the school grounds.
  
• 2. Ecological Restoration: Bringing Back the Prairie, by Molly Fifield Murray, (K-12) GT52
  Restoration procedures for re-establishing communities of native prairie plants.
  
• 3. A One-Year Plan for Greening the Schoolyard, by Ann Coffey and Micheline Crondin, (Gr.3-6) GT27
  A plan of monthly activities and subject integration for elementary classrooms.
  
• 4. Learning from the Rooftops, by Monica Kuhn, (K-12) GT48
  How to construct a school rooftop garden as a laboratory, a place for play, or a quiet area to read and write.
  
• 5. Outdoor classrooms: The Learning Links, by Jeff Reading and George Taven, (Gr.4-8) GT47
  A compendium of activity suggestions that make use of the outdoor classroom in seven major subject areas.
  
• 6. Planet Earth Pages: The Outdoor Classroom, by the School Area Nature Project, (K-12) GT50
  A collection of activities that focus on investigating local ecosystems, both in the schoolyard and further afield.

Science/Technology (K-6)

7 articles

• 1. Exploring Waterworlds: Telecommunications for Young Children, by Kristi Rennebohm Franz and Jane McLane, (Gr.K-4) GT49
  Through telecommunication with peers around the globe, primary students are sharing their learning and voicing their concerns about the health of the world's habitats.
  
• 2. A Winter Composting Experiment, by Mike Lamothe (Gr.1-6) GT35
  An experiment to discover how best to keep compost cooking all winter long.
  
• 3. Branching Out: Forest Studies with Children, by Susan Argast and Cheryl Macdonald, Parts 1 and 2, (Gr.2-7) GT42 and 43
  A integrated unit for teaching young children about trees and forests; it includes activities that sharpen sensory awareness of trees and examine the biological processes and ecological importance of forests.
  
• 4. Solar Box Lunch, by Sue LeBeau, (Gr.4-9) GT46
  Instructions for making and using solar box cookers in the classroom -- a tasty way to learn the principles of solar energy.
  
• 5. Junior Solar Sprint, by Aisling O'Shea, (Gr.5-9), GT53
  Designing, building and racing a solar-powered car offers a hands-on way for middle years students to learn about renewable energy.
  
• 6. Bicyclize Your Environment, by Ken Croxford, (Gr.2-10) GT32
  A multi-dimensional school program that engages 13- to 15-year-olds in teaching bike safety to younger students and in reconditioning old bikes to raise funds for overseas development projects.

Science/Technology (7-12)

7 articles

• 1. A Mohawk Vision of Education: The Ahkwesahsne Science and Math Pilot Project, by Mary Henderson, (Gr.5-9) GT49
  Development and description of a holistic bioregional curriculum designed to help students learn to walk in two worlds.
  
• 2. Teaching with the Seasons, by Larry Weber, (Gr.5-10) GT54
  Phenology -- nature's daily and seasonal drama -- provides the textbook for this full-year grade seven natural science course.
  
• 3. A Constructed Wetland: From Monitoring to Action, by Dan Kowal, (Gr.5-12), GT55
  Description of one school's experiment in building constructed wetlands to remove toxic metals and neutralize acid mine drainage in a local creek.
  
• 4. Papermaking, by David Barnes, (Gr.6-12) GT34
  A project in which high school students are using the school's waste paper to create handmade papers and greeting cards at their own paper recycling mill.
  
• 5. Exploring Wetlands, by Gord Harrison, (Gr.8-12) GT47
  A six-step model for wetlands monitoring and stewardship.
  
• 6. Getting the Lead Out, by Gail Anderson, (Gr.10-12) GT48
  High school environmental chemistry students are testing for lead contamination in their neighborhood and educating the entire community about the hazards of lead in the environment.
  
• 7. Small Scale Science, by Alan Slater, (Gr.10-12) GT44
  A small-is-better technique that dramatically reduces the quantity of chemicals used in science laboratory classes.
  
• 8. Water Pumps for Africa, by Jim Scoten, (Gr.7-12) GT27
  High school shop students make a practical contribution to
  overseas development work.

Social/Multicultural Studies (K-6)

6 articles/activities

• 1. Global Education in Kindergarten, by Karen Green, (K-2) GT31
  Creative ideas for very young global citizens.
  
• 2. Where in the World, by Sylvia Helmer, (Gr.K-8) GT33
  This whole-school activity promotes a sense of community and may reveal a surprising diversity of backgrounds.
  
• 3. The One World Cake, by Jackie Kirk, (Gr.2-7), GT50
  This simple and adaptable recipe provides a tasty focal point for exploring how our food links us to people and places around the world.
  
• 4. Exploring Diversity, by Rita Furgiuele, (Gr4-6) GT33
  Various activities for multicultural education.
  
• 5. Child Rights - Earth Rights, by Alanda Greene, (Gr.4-8) GT33
  This three-art activity integrates many areas of the curriculum.
  
• 6. Discovering the Ancient Temperate Rainforests, by Anne Lindsay
  (Gr.3-8) GT51
  A role-play and a debate that explore species adaptation and forestry issues in North American rainforests.
  

Social/Multicultural Studies (7-12)

4 articles/activities

• 1. Global Morning: A Consumer Awareness Activity, by Mary Gale
  Smith (Gr.7-12), GT44
  An eye-opening lesson for secondary students on the implications of consumerism.
  
• 2. Thinking Spatially: GIS in the Classroom, by Marsha Alibrandi,
  (Gr.10-12) GT50
  Exploring the potential of Geographic Information Systems in environmental education.
  
• 3. Multicultural Environmental Education, by Kevin Peter, (K-12)
  GT54
  Multicultural considerations in environmental studies.
  
• 4. Ten Guidelines for Dialogues about Intercultural Issues, by Mathew Zachariah, (K-12) GT54

Integrated High School Curriculum I

5 articles

• 1. Learning Without Walls: High School Subject Integration, by
  Tim Grant, (Gr.8-12) GT42
  The rationale and timeliness of integrated learning in high schools.
  
• 2. The Tamarack Program, by Bill Patterson, (Gr.10-12) GT42.
  A long-standing program in which grade 11 students earn four subject credits through environmental investigations, job-shadowing, wilderness trips and the publishing of a magazine on local history.
  
• 3. Integrated Research in Grade 12, by Mike Milosevich, (Gr.11- 12) GT42
  An interdisciplinary research project that gives grade twelve credit in as many as five different subjects.
  
• 4. Ten UP: Rethinking High School, by Rick Ast, (Gr.9-11) GT42
  A school within a school in which four teachers and 80 grade ten students collaborate on integrated learning projects.
  
• 5. Grade Nine Global Studies, by Nancy Syer, (Gr.8-11) GT42
  Integrated learning in the four core subjects of grade nine.
  

Integrated High School Curriculum II

3 articles

• 1. Earthquest: A Life-Changing High School Semester, by Marilyn
  Taylor, (Gr.10-12) GT35
  An outdoor-oriented four-credit program in which students climb mountains, study marine life and visit aboriginal communities.
  
• 2. Growing an Integrated Unit, Organically, by Dianne Clipsham
  and Letitia Charbonneau, (Gr.7-10) GT40
  An interdisciplinary grade eight unit on food.
  
• 3. Geostudies: Structuring a Multi-Credit Outdoor Environmental
  Course, by Kevin Simms, (Gr.10-12) GT 49

Language Arts/Art (K-6)

6 articles/activities

• 1. Conflict Study Through Children's Literature, by Shirley Dale-
  Easley, (Gr.1-6) GT34
  Using children's literature as a springboard, elementary students explore the roots of conflict through reading, writing and role playing.
  
• 2. The Making of the Tropical Tribune, by Harold "Butch" Beedle,
  (Gr.5-10) GT52
  Publishing an interdisciplinary newspaper read by teachers and students across the country has given sixth graders a new reason to learn about tropical rainforests.
  
• 3. The Art of Science, by Tina Jory, (K-4) GT52
  Realistic nature drawing integrates art and science and brings challenging new dimensions to both.
  
• 4. All Species Projects, by Marty Kraft, (Gr.4-10) GT36
  These art-oriented projects help re-establish our connection to the natural world and widen our sense of community.
  
• 5. Rivers: An Interdisciplinary Inquiry Through the Arts, by Francine Morin, Ann Stinner and Elizabeth Coffman, (Gr.5-8) GT53
  The authors show how environmental investigations are enhanced by various art explorations.
  

• 6. The Abundance of Nature's Imagination, by Karen Krupa, (Gr.2- 8) GT38
  
  Schoolyard naturalization is an inspiration and an opportunity for the arts.

Language Arts/Art (7-12)

3 articles/activities

• 1. Ancestral Arts, by Elizabeth Lorentzen, (Gr.7-12) GT53
  In collecting and preparing their own earthy materials, students gain an appreciation of traditional art techniques and an admiration for the people who first developed them.
  
• 2. The Greening of High School Language Arts, by George Wilson,
  (Gr.9-12) GT35
  Far from being an add-on to the Language Arts program, green themes can be explored in journal writing, reading and media studies.
  
• 3. The Integrated Reader: Literature and EE, by Rosalie Daniels
  and Steve Hage, (Gr.10-12) GT48
  Using literature as a basis for cross-curricular units in senior high school environmental studies.