Sustainability Resources
it uses recycled materials which in itself ties beautifully into sustainability!
http://www.hitentertainment.com/artattack/menu_artattacks.html
Sayra found some resources as well:
http://www.teachsustainability.com.au/
http://www.olliesworld.com/
http://www.nrdc.org/greensquad/
- iWorld
- Uno's Garden
- Seed Hunter
- Red List
- Miniature Earth Project
- Vels Unit Planner
- Murdoch Unit Planner
it uses recycled materials which in itself ties beautifully into sustainability!
http://www.hitentertainment.com/artattack/menu_artattacks.html
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2010/02/cubic-foot/liittschwager-photography
Sayra found some resources as well:
http://www.teachsustainability.com.au/
http://www.olliesworld.com/
http://www.nrdc.org/greensquad/
Books that have a sustainability link (which Sam read/looked at):
Fantastic Mr Fox – Roald Dahl
Humans destroy the environment while looking for Mr Fox. All the animals get together and talk about how they have nothing to eat now that their habitat is destroyed.
Uno's Garden – Graeme Base
Initial human expansion results in the destruction of the natural environment. Only when balance between synthetic and natural environments is found do the animals return.
Cat on the Island – Gary Crew/Gillian Warden
Based on the true story of the Stephens Island Wren in New Zealand. It's the story of a pregnant pet cat being introduced to this island and how this resulted in the extension of the wren.
The Rabbits – John Marsden/Shaun Tan
More of an allegory about colonisation, it's not much of a jump to make it about sustainability as the native numbats struggle with a devastated environment after the rabbits arrive.
The Animals of Farthing Wood – Colin Dann
The animals of Farthing Wood need to escape their home as it is being bulldozed to make room for a housing development.
Books that have a sustainability link (which I have not read):
All Jeannie Baker summaries are from: http://www.jeanniebaker.com/picture_books_index.htm
Window – Jeannie Baker
(A wordless picture book exploring the concept of exponential change.) A mother and baby look through a window at a view of wilderness and sky as far as they can see. As Sam, the baby, grows, the view changes. At first, in a cleared patch of forest, a single house appears, A few years pass and there is a village in the distance. The village develops into a city. Sam, now a young man, gets married, has a child of his own and moves to the country. Now father and baby look through a window in their new home. The view again is of a wilderness, but in a cleared patch of forest across a dirt road a prophetic sign reads, ‘House Blocks for Sale’.
Belonging – Jeannie Baker
(A wordless picture book and companion book to 'Window')
An alienating city street gradually becomes a place to call home. Little by little, baby Tracy grows. She and her neighbours begin to rescue their street. Together, children and adults plant grass and trees and bushes in the empty spaces. They paint murals over old graffiti. They stop the cars. Everything begins to blossom.
Where the Forest Meets the Sea – Jeannie Baker
A boy and his father travel in their boat, ‘Time Machine’ to a stretch of beach beside a primordial tropical rainforest. As the boy walks among the trees he imagines the forest as it might have been in the past. Dinosaurs emerge, barely perceptible, from a tangle of trunks and vines; the faint outlines of an aboriginal child melt into a background of trees and in the final haunting scene the unspoiled vista readers have toured is overlaid with translucent images of civilisation.
The Hidden Forest – Jeannie Baker
Ben holds little regard for sea life. When his fish trap is tangled in the kelp his friend Sophie helps him to free it and so takes Ben under the sea where he discovers the enchanted world of the kelp forest and its inhabitants. Ben’s experience turns him from fear and exploitation to exploration, wonder and delight in what he finds.
The Story of Rosy Dock – Jeannie Baker
The Australian desert: for thousands of years the only changes here were made by the wind, the willy-willies and sometimes the rain. Then a hundred years ago people from Europe settled in the desert and planted seeds from the other side of the world. The Story of Rosy Dock is the story of one of the settlers who followed them, and her garden in the wilderness, a garden that is beautiful – but with an unexpected flowering.
The Lorax – Dr. Seuss
Over consumption/logging and it's impact on the environment/wildlife. I haven't read this, but I have seen this video: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6650219631867189375#
On page 21 of this pdf: http://ils.unc.edu/MSpapers/3304.pdf there are a heap of books that might be useful. It's important to note that the above article contends that primary students would struggle to comprehend the sustainability themes found in the books. Let's just ignore that though.
Teaching Resources (lesson plans) and Links
