by boot | Mar 5, 2025
Students work in groups to select a piece of writing — a short story, article, essay, poem, song, children’s story — that relates to themes of climate change or of human interaction with nature or other themes about the environment. They present the work as Readers’...
by boot | Mar 5, 2025
Students work in groups and represent data from the book and other sources in a series of graphs and tables, using graphic software. They decide on the purpose and theme of their data representations and create a way to display/present them. They can present their...
by boot | Mar 5, 2025
Students choose an ecological or geographical process or system they read about in the book and create a detailed graphic to explain it. For example, they could create a flow chart of the carbon cycle or the hydrologic cycle, or a diagram of thermohaline circulation,...
by boot | Mar 5, 2025
Students survey current advertising for cars and trucks on television, the Internet, billboards, and in print media to see what is emphasized in the ads. They could create a tool, such as an observation checklist to gather their data. They can then share and discuss...
by boot | Mar 5, 2025
Students choose five or six facts from the book that affected or resonated with them the most and jot them down. They discuss their choices in groups and explain the reasons for their choices. Subjects: Geography, Science, World Studies, Humanities and Social...
