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EARTH DAY

Resources for the Classroom


'Welcome to My World' is the  song you may be hearing.   How wonderful it will be if generations to come can also say 'welcome'.  As parents and teachers, we know how important it is to preserve the environment and conserve our world resources for those that follow us.  Our challenge is to put what we know into action and to teach the children in our care!

This website offers a variety of resources toward this goal.  It is just a start.  I'll be updating all through March and April as I find more to share.  Please send your favorites for me to include. 

~ Marci McGowan ~

* Earth Day Poem

 * Earth Day Readers Theater Script * Books About Our Wonderful World
* We Can Make A Difference: Classroom Resources

 

 

 

Books About Our Wonderful World!

Why Should I Recycle? by Jen Green
A River Ran Wild : An Environmental History by Lynne Cherry
A Tree is Nice by Janice May Udry
Anthology for the Earth by Judy Allen
Berenstain Bears Don't Pollute (Anymore) by Stan Berenstain
Bringing the Rain to Kapiti Plain by A. Verma
Dear Children of the Earth by Schim Schimmel
Each Living Thing by Joanne Ryder
Hey! Get Off Our Train by John Burningham
Just A Dream by Chris VanAllsburg
Nature's Green Umbrella:
Tropical Rain Forests by Gail Gibbons
Marshes & Swamps by Gail Gibbons
Maxine's Tree by Diane Haskell-Leger
Miss Rumphius by Barbara Cooney
Oil Spill by Melvin Berger
Once There Was A Tree by Natalia Romanova
One Day in the Desert by Jean Craighead George
One Day in the Prairie by Jean Craighead George
One Day in the Tropical Rain Forest by Jean Craighead George
One Day in the Woods by Jean Craighead George
One Light, One Sun by Raffi
Prince William by Gloria Rand
Recycle : A Handbook for Kids by Gail Gibbons
Roxaboxen by Alice McLerran
The Armadillo from Amarillo by Lynne Cherry
The Bear Who Wanted to be a Bear by Jorg Steiner
The Earth is Good by Michael DeMunn
The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein
The Great Kapok Tree:
A Tale of the Amazon Rain Forest by Lynne Cherry
The Legend of the Bluebonnet by Tomie dePaola
The Lorax by Dr. Suess
The People Who Hugged the Trees by Deborah Rose
The Shaman's Apprentice:
A Tale of the Amazon Rain Forest by Lynne Cherry
The Sign of the Seahorse :
A Tale of Greed and High Adventure in Two Acts by Graeme Base
The Small, Small, Pond by Denise Fleming
The Wartville Wizard by Don Madden
Where Once There Was a Wood by Denise Fleming
Wump World by Bill Peet

If you have a favorite not included here, please send email.

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EARTH DAY POEM
by Jane Yolen

I am the Earth
And the Earth is me.
Each blade of grass,
Each honey tree,
Each bit of mud,
And stick and stone
Is blood and muscle,
Skin and bone.
And just as I
Need every bit
Of me to make
My body fit,
So Earth needs
Grass and stone and tree
And things that grow here
Naturally.
That's why we
Celebrate this day.
That's why across
The world we say:
As long as life,
As dear, as free,
I am the Earth
And the Earth is me.
 

 

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