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Searching for Ways to Introduce Climate Change
18/11/21 11:01 Filed in: Environmental Education
Searching for Ways to Introduce Climate Change?
Melting Ice in The Antarctic_Boris Datnow
Since climate change will impact daily life—now and in future—it is both a critical problem that needs to be addressed and one that can be adapted to effective teaching, across the curricular. Science-based information, methods, and resources help educators broach this complex subject, no matter what area they teach.
Understanding the impact of climate change is an essential step toward preparing our students to become knowledgeable, active, and just stewards of our state’s and our planet’s natural environment adversely impacted by climate change.
For Free Teacher Handouts and Lessons Plans visit: mediamint.net:
Teaching Environmental Science/Climate Change/ Through Fiction.
Fiction can be a powerful way for students to understand how climate change has and will impact their future. Fiction is one way (cli-fi) can serve as a springboard for lively discussions. In addition, stories offer ways in which students can envision and adjust to climate change.
Links to Additional Resources.
Climate Change Fiction for Kids: https://mediamint.net/page7/files/Climate%20Change%20Fiction%20for%20Kids.html
Red Flag Warning: An Eco Adventure by Claire Datnow
YA/Teen Eco Fiction. https://mediamint.net/page7/files/Teen%20Eco%20Fiction.html
The Winds of Change: Children’s Environmental Climate Fiction: https://dragonfly.eco/the-winds-of-change-childrens-environmental-climate-fiction/
INTERVIEW: CLIMATE CHANGE FOR TEENS
https://mediamint.net/page7/files/Interview:%20Climate%20Change%20for%20Teens.html
Climate Change Fiction: Multicultural, Diverse, Global, and with Animals, Too! a guest blog by author Claire Datnow: https://www.teenlibrariantoolbox.com/2021/03/climate-change-fiction-multicultural-diverse-global-and-with-animals-too-a-guest-blog-by-author-claire-datnow/
Interview with Mary Woodbury Climate Fiction:
https://dragonfly.eco/indie-corner-claire-datnow/
How To Teach Climate Change Without Panicking Your Students: https://blog.planbook.com/teach-climate-change/
Melting Ice in The Antarctic_Boris Datnow
- Why Teach Climate Change?
Since climate change will impact daily life—now and in future—it is both a critical problem that needs to be addressed and one that can be adapted to effective teaching, across the curricular. Science-based information, methods, and resources help educators broach this complex subject, no matter what area they teach.
Understanding the impact of climate change is an essential step toward preparing our students to become knowledgeable, active, and just stewards of our state’s and our planet’s natural environment adversely impacted by climate change.
- Ways to Introduce Climate Change: Instead of burdening educators with additional stand-alone, complex areas to study, the good news is that Environmental Literacy can become a part of subjects and activities already in your state’s core curriculum standards in science, math, social studies, and language arts.
- Climate Fiction: As Earth’s changing climate becomes an ever-increasing concern, young readers are turning to climate fiction as a way to engage their imaginations and deal with their fears in the safety of their present environment. The teens in these climate fiction stories demonstrate courage, tenacity, compassion, imagination, and foresight. So, although the events may be upsetting, the reader empathizes with the main characters and finish the last page feeling informed, hopeful, resolute, and inspired.
- Connecting Scientific Concepts with Fiction/Storytelling can be a powerful way to make future consequences more immediate to ourselves and our students. Fiction can be woven into teaching environmental science and climate change as outlined in the core curriculum standards
For Free Teacher Handouts and Lessons Plans visit: mediamint.net:
Teaching Environmental Science/Climate Change/ Through Fiction.
Fiction can be a powerful way for students to understand how climate change has and will impact their future. Fiction is one way (cli-fi) can serve as a springboard for lively discussions. In addition, stories offer ways in which students can envision and adjust to climate change.
- After reading appropriate fiction, Language Arts teachers can Inspire Lively discussions by interweaving the Theme of Climate Change.
- Social Studies Teachers and can Inspire Lively discussion around the impact of Climate change on marginalized groups in their own communities and around the globe (Social Justice).
Links to Additional Resources.
Climate Change Fiction for Kids: https://mediamint.net/page7/files/Climate%20Change%20Fiction%20for%20Kids.html
Red Flag Warning: An Eco Adventure by Claire Datnow
YA/Teen Eco Fiction. https://mediamint.net/page7/files/Teen%20Eco%20Fiction.html
The Winds of Change: Children’s Environmental Climate Fiction: https://dragonfly.eco/the-winds-of-change-childrens-environmental-climate-fiction/
INTERVIEW: CLIMATE CHANGE FOR TEENS
https://mediamint.net/page7/files/Interview:%20Climate%20Change%20for%20Teens.html
Climate Change Fiction: Multicultural, Diverse, Global, and with Animals, Too! a guest blog by author Claire Datnow: https://www.teenlibrariantoolbox.com/2021/03/climate-change-fiction-multicultural-diverse-global-and-with-animals-too-a-guest-blog-by-author-claire-datnow/
Interview with Mary Woodbury Climate Fiction:
https://dragonfly.eco/indie-corner-claire-datnow/
How To Teach Climate Change Without Panicking Your Students: https://blog.planbook.com/teach-climate-change/
Eco Mysteries and Earth Day
21/04/20 11:57 Filed in: Environmental Fiction
Celebrate Environmental Literature in the Time of Covid-19
Coincidence or Serendipity? Three historic events this April have coincided with a personal event that's meaningful to me and, hopeful, to my reader. This month marks the tenth anniversary of the BP oil spill, the fiftieth anniversary of Earth Day, and the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic. Wow! What are the chances of that happening? Could this be the universe reminding me of my passion for writing eco mysteries is important and should continue? I might also mention the strange coincidence of our stateroom # 1918, on our recent cruise to Antarctica, which coincided with the Spanish flue epidemic—and hinted at the Covid-19 pandemic. By sheer luck, the virus missed us, but infected the passengers on the next cruise—but that is a tale for another blog. Read More...
Coincidence or Serendipity? Three historic events this April have coincided with a personal event that's meaningful to me and, hopeful, to my reader. This month marks the tenth anniversary of the BP oil spill, the fiftieth anniversary of Earth Day, and the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic. Wow! What are the chances of that happening? Could this be the universe reminding me of my passion for writing eco mysteries is important and should continue? I might also mention the strange coincidence of our stateroom # 1918, on our recent cruise to Antarctica, which coincided with the Spanish flue epidemic—and hinted at the Covid-19 pandemic. By sheer luck, the virus missed us, but infected the passengers on the next cruise—but that is a tale for another blog. Read More...
Earth Day Migratory Bird Day
24/04/17 07:28 Filed in: Environment
Helping Birds Along the Way
On a perfect spring day, citizens celebrated the first International Migratory Bird Day at the Birmingham Botanical Gardens’ Earth Day festival. At the Media Mint Publishing Booth, visitors learned that birds fly thousands of miles from their wintering areas in South America and the Caribbean to their summer nesting sites in the United States and Canada. A Piping plover, for example, can travel over a 1,000 miles from the Caribbean to the breeding areas in northern United States and Canada.
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On a perfect spring day, citizens celebrated the first International Migratory Bird Day at the Birmingham Botanical Gardens’ Earth Day festival. At the Media Mint Publishing Booth, visitors learned that birds fly thousands of miles from their wintering areas in South America and the Caribbean to their summer nesting sites in the United States and Canada. A Piping plover, for example, can travel over a 1,000 miles from the Caribbean to the breeding areas in northern United States and Canada.
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