Beautiful Junk

Karen Brackett and Rosie Manley - Outlines many projects which can be used in conjunction with recycling, garbage and environmental units. It also sparks ideas for other projects with its open-ended structuring. Utilized this resource as a cross-curriculum starter while home-schooling. Highly recommended to anyone with some extra "junk" lying around and at least one ambitious child. Fearon Teachers AIDS. $13.99

ISBN: 0822406268

Brother Eagle, Sister Sky: A message from Chief Seattle

Susan Jeffers (Illustrator) - Illustrates the moving ecological message spoken by Chief Seattle over a century ago. (Ages 4-8) Dial Books for Young Readers. $16.00

ISBN: 0803709692

The Everglades: River of Grass

Marjory Stoneman Douglas - Originally published in 1947, The Everglades was one of those rare books, like Uncle Tom's Cabin and Silent Spring, to have an immediate political effect: it helped draw public attention to a vast and little-known area that South Florida developers had deemed a worthless swamp and were busily draining, damming, and remaking, and it mustered needed public support for President Harry Truman's controversial order, later that year, to protect more than 2 million acres as Everglades National Park. $18.95

ISBN: 1561641359

From Raindrops to the Sea: The Florida Water Story

Peggy Lantz - An excellent resource to learn about Florida and its water system. Pineapple Press $19.95.

ISBN: 1561640999

How Green Are You

David Bellamy and Penny Dann - Learn useful and easy tips on how to start Now! To save the Earth. It includes nifty do-it-yourself projects. (Ages 7-10) $7.99

ISBN: 0711206791

Keepers of the Animals: Native American Stories and Wildlife Activities for Children

Michael J Caduto and Joseph Bruchac - To change how we feel about nature, one approach is to learn how other cultures look at the natural process. Fulcrum Publishing @ 800-992-2908. $19.95

ISBN: 1555913865

John Muir : Nature Writings: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth; My First Summer in the Sierra; The Mountains of California; Stickeen; Essays

John Muir -A naturalist, walked California's Sierra Mountains and fell in love with their flower-filled high meadows, spectacular waterfalls, and rocky peaks. He fought for his mountains and helped establish this country's earliest national parks. In a lifetime of exploration, writing, and passionate political activism, John Muir made himself America's most eloquent spokesman for the mystery and majesty of the wilderness, a master of natural description who evoked and celebrated with unique power and intimacy the untravelled landscapes of Alaska and the American West. Library of America. $35.00

ISBN: 1883011248

Living Downstream

By Sandra Steingraber

ISBN: 0201483033

Byrd Baylor and Peter Parnall - A children's book for young and old students. An excellent way to set a mood and encourage greater awareness of natural surroundings. It includes: "I used to know an old man who could walk by any corn field and hear the corn singing... Were you surprised to hear it? I always had to ask. He said. Not a bit. It seemed like the most natural thing in the world." Charles Scribners, Sons. $5.99

ISBN: 068416017X

Pollution: Problems and Solutions

National Wildlife Federation, 1400 Sixteenth Street NW, Washington, DC 20036-2266 - Part of the Federation's Naturescope Series, and excellent collect of workbooks. A list of other environmental publications is available from the same address.

ISBN: 0070471053

Pond and Brook: A Guide to Nature in Freshwater Environments

Michael J Caduto - An excellent primer on freshwater ecology. University Press of New England. $12.95

ISBN: 0874515092

Project WILD's Aquatic Workbook

Project WILD - Packed with exercises to bring students closer to aquatic living and acquaint them with the problems of water pollution, overuse of water resources and other aquatic issues. Write to: Project WILD, Salina Star Route, Boulder, CO 80302

Aldo Leopold - A wildlife manager, writer and teacher, insisted that we had to think about more than ourselves when we made decisions about using the land. His book, A Sand County Almanac, told about how he learned to repair the damage done to an old Wisconsin farm through careful brush-cutting, planting and burning to bring back native species of plants. Ballantine Books. $6.99

ISBN: 0345345053

Silent Spring

Rachel Carson - A marine biologist, led a campaign in the 1950s to restrict pesticides that, in the case of DDT, were damaging streams and lakes across the country. She wrote a book called Silent Spring. It told about how heavy pesticides spraying was not only killing the crop pests it was supposed to kill, but also was killing songbirds and other animals as well. Houghton Mifflin. $ 14.00

ISBN: 0395683297

The Untamed Garden and Other Personal Essays

David Rains Wallace - A brief, but thorough description of natural writers. Collier Books. $9.95

ISBN: 0814204236

HenryDavid Thoreau - A poet, living next to a Massachusetts pond in order to find a quieter life. His year at the pond produced some of the earliest and best American natural writing. Today, his Walden Pond is under pressure from surrounding development, with his neighbors and friends of the Pond trying to protect it. Dover Publications. $2.00

ISBN: 0679418962

The Wilderness World of John Muir

Edited by Edwin Way Teale - For older students, any excerpt. For example, in the chapter titled, Windstorm in the Forest is Muir's accounting of climbing a tall tree during a windstorm: "It occurred to me that it would be a fine thing to climb one of the trees to obtain a wider outlook... Under the circumstances, the choice of a tree was a serious matter... Being accustomed to climbing trees in making botanical studies, I experienced no difficulty in reaching the top of this one, and never before did I enjoy so noble an exhilaration of motion. The slender tops fairly flapped and swirled in the passionate torrent, bending and swirling backwards and forward, round and round, tracing indescribable combinations of vertical and horizontal curves, while I clung with muscles firm braced, like a bobolink on a reed." (pg. 186.) Mariner Books. $15.00

ISBN: 0618127518

WOW! The Wonders of Wetlands

Environmental Concerns, Inc. - An inexpensive, 160-page collection of wetland-related games, plant and track guides, map exercises, geology lessons and more. Write to: Environmental Concerns, Inc., PO Box P, St. Michaels, MD 21663

The Young Naturalist's Guide to Florida

Peggy Lantz and Wendy Hale- Pineapple Press

ISBN: 1561640514