Early Childhood Activities for a Greener Earth

More than 100 classroom activities to help children learn about and care for the earth

Educate young children about the environment through experience and play. These activities encourage children to develop a sense of wonder, curiosity, and joy for nature. Each chapter focuses on a common and important environmental topic-from waste reduction and recycling to air quality, weather and climate change, and energy reduction-and provides information to help you present these topics to children in developmentally appropriate ways. Early Childhood Activities for a Greener Earth will help you excite children, engage families, and encourage your community to be green.

Early Childhood Activities for a Greener Earth is a 2014 Teachers' Choice Award for the Classroom winner!

Auteur

Patty Born Selly: Patty is the founder of Small Wonders, an educational consulting company, and serves as adjunct faculty at Hamline University and Metropolitan State University, where she teaches classes on children, nature, and environmental education. Patty is also a preschool/early elementary teacher at the Science Museum of Minnesota and trainer of early childhood educators through the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources.

Contenu

Introduction

PART ONE
Why Teach About the Environment?
Using this Book with Go Green Rating Scale for Early Childhood Settings
Approaching "Green" Topics in Early Childhood

PART TWO
The Big Ideas:
The Three Rs: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
The Food We Eat
The Air We Breathe
Water, Water Everywhere
Weather and Climate
Energy is All Around Us
Healthy Children, Healthy Planet

PART THREE
Conclusion
Appendices
Bibliography