DESCRIPTION

This 120-page study guide describes the process of celebrating Earth Day from mask making and parading to scores of lessons and activities for pre-K to 12 grade. It is divides into three units. Covers a wide range of topics, integrating environmental and economic concerns. Unit I covers how to do an All Species or Earth Day with ways to integrate the preparation into classroom study. Unit II covers integrating the economy and the environment for younger children, pre and elementary ages. Unit III covers the economy and environment from elementary through high school.

COMMENTS ABOUT Earth Day in Your School and Community

“Earth Day in Your School and Community activity book and I think it’s absolutely tremendous, and I really appreciate that you had the time and energy to put this out, it's beautiful, it's great. We're going to use it and show it to a lot of teachers and try to get the word out about it. It's a really good compilation of activities and ideas and concepts and I think it's wonderful. You're doing a great job.”
Louise Bradshaw, St. Louis Zoo

"The All Species study guide is an invaluable resource for classroom teachers who wish to enrich their curriculum with experiences, such as Earth Day celebrations, that foster an appreciation for and understanding of environmental issues and possible solutions."
Laura L. Tewes, M.A., Science Teacher and Chairperson of Acceleration, Creativity, and Enrichment Department, Pleasant Lee Junior High School, Lee's Summit, Missouri (Also the co- chairperson of the Lee's Summit Earth Day/Arbor Day Committee).

"This material provides the kind of hands-on interdisciplinary, multi-sensory approach that educators can easily and effectively use in a wide variety of subject areas. The material encourages students to use both the left and right sides of their brains. These processes, activities, materials and lessons will work with your students because they represent a holistic approach to learning. With them, students are able to learn the sometimes hard facts of life in a mutually supportive and affirming way."
Rob Arnerine, M.A., history/social studies Teacher, Ruskin High School, Kansas City, Missouri

"All species will benefit from Earth Day in Your School and Community. Students and their teachers will have fun while they strengthen the "web of life" through individual and group thinking, planning, and activities. The materials promote development of an environmental ethic while the student gains a realization of the individual's and humankind's place on Turtle Island."
Daniel H. Stern, Ph.D., Ecologist Professor of Biological Sciences & Nursing, University of Missouri-Kansas City

TABLE OF CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION

The All Species Perspective
How to Use this Study Guide
How to Use the Word Studies
Role Play Guidelines

UNIT ONE: EARTH DAY IN YOUR SCHOOL FROM MASKS TO EARTH DAY

MUSIC
CHOOSING A CREATURE FRIEND
MASK MAKING

Designing the Mask
Plaster Cast Tape
Wire Frame Headdresses
Cardboard Frame Headdresses
Paper Masks and Headpieces

CREATURE CONGRESS
CREATIVE DRAMA IDEAS

Some "Tools" of Drama
Activities and Games

PUPPETRY

Making Puppets from Cellu-Clay
Giant Puppets

PARADE

UNIT TWO: WORKING WITH THE EARTH: THE ECONOMY AND THE ENVIRONMENT FOR YOUNGER STUDENTS

CHAPTER 1: HISTORY OF RESOURCE SPECIES

Gatherers/Hunters
Agriculturists
Manufacturing
Recreation and Tourism
Preschool/Kindergarten -- Mother Hubbard’s Cupboard Museum
First through Third Grades -- On the Loose: Resource Mapping
Fourth through Sixth Grades -- Family Work Roots Book

CHAPTER 2: MYTHS AND LEGENDS

Preschool/Kindergarten -- "How Come" Stories and Story Figure Storytelling
First through Third Grades -- How Come Book and Puppetry
Fourth through Sixth Grades -- Story Development, Audio Programming and Radio Stories

CHAPTER 3: RESOURCE-SPECIES LINKS

Preschool/Kindergarten -- Home Shoe Boxes
First through Third Grades -- Spaceship Home
Fourth through Sixth Grades -- Banner Webs

CHAPTER 4: RESOURCE USE

Preschool/Kindergarten -- Cans as Money as Food
First through Third -- Selling and Marketing a Local Resource
Fourth through Sixth Grades -- Animal Barter Bazaar

CHAPTER 5: CONCERNS AND THREATS

Preschool/Kindergarten -- Dream Work
First through Third Grades -- Monster Designs
Fourth through Sixth Grades -- Town Meeting: Role Play

CHAPTER 6: PROJECTED FUTURE

Preschool/Kindergarten -- Planting Trees
First through Third Grades -- Eco-Inventions
Fourth through Sixth Grades -- Defending Your Life

CHAPTER 7: THANKS-GIVING

Preschool/Kindergarten -- Thanks-giving for the Animals
First through Sixth Grades -- Making Masks

UNIT THREE: WORKING WITH THE EARTH: THE ECONOMY AND THE ENVIRONMENT: ISSUES

Preface
The GAIA Hypothesis: Survival of the Cooperative
Economy AND Environment

CHAPTER 1: WE REALLY DON’T KNOW WHAT WE ARE DOING

Light Switch Collage
Lighting Audit
Lite Task Force
Classroom Lights
Exit Lights
More LITE Task Force Activities
Energy Efficient Lighting Starter Kit

CHAPTER 2: THE REAL COST OF FOOD AND PRODUCTS: LOCAL VERSUS DISTANT MARKETS

Exploring Tomatoes
How Much We Don’t Know About Our Food
Where Your Tomato May Have Come From
The Real Cost of Food
The Real Cost of Products

CHAPTER 3: THE ROLE OF MONEY

Attachment to Money
Water Wheel
How Did Money Develop?

CHAPTER 4: THE BASIC UNIT OF THE ECONOMY

Trade/Transaction/Deal/Exchange
Types of Trade
Warm Trade or Cold Trade?
Trades of Justice
Trades of Addiction
Reciprocity with the Earth

CHAPTER 5: ATTITUDES TOWARD THE LAND AND WEALTH

An American Indian Perspective
Now for Something Completely Different
Land and Wealth
Woodland Summit: Role Play
The Hopi’s Choice
A New Perspective is Upon Us

CHAPTER 6: PROFIT

Economics of a Gallon of Gas
Student Activity: Energy Comparisons
Stair Climbing: Human Power
Rowing Boat: Human Power
Driving a Car: Fossil Fuel Power
Compare Human to Fossil Fuel Power

CHAPTER 7: MARKETS AND BUYING LOCALLY

What are Markets?
Economic Choices Shape Society and the Environment: Role Play
Buying Locally

CHAPTER 8: THE HISTORY OF OUR DISCONNECTION FROM NATURE

Leaving the Land: Story and Role Play
Adam Smith
Charles Dickens
Forest Report at the Time of Adam Smith
What are We Doing?

CHAPTER 9: CORPORATIONS

Are Corporations Environmental Bad Guys?
Why Corporations?
Where Do We Fit In?
Ideas for Involvement
Corporate Environmental Choices: Role Play

CHAPTER 10: GOOD ECOLOGY GOOD ECONOMY:
Four examples of good ecology turning into good economy with math problems.

Circuit Board Cleaning Solvent Change
Machinery Part Degreasing
Pesticide Solvent Contaminates Aquifer
Copper Refining

CHAPTER 11: PAPER AND PRINTING

The Printing Industry, Inks and Solvents, Paper
Make Your Own Paper
Paper Reduction Study

CHAPTER 12: TARIFFS AND TRADE AGREEMENTS

Trade Agreements:
Discussion of General Treaty on Tariffs and Trade and
North American Free Trade Agreement

CHAPTER 13: THE VALUE OF FORESTS

Forests in the US
Deforestation in the Tropics: Rainforest Economics

CHAPTER 14: ECONOMIC MEASUREMENT

A Sustainable Economy
Land
Water
Air
Biodiversity
People

CHAPTER 15: POPULATION

Population Growth
Energy Consumption
Food, Energy and Population
Water for Food