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Much like The Material World, this book showcases children from around the world and their bedrooms. This is an excerpt form the book that is large enough to engender student dialogue.

Sample pages form the Cornell books on toxicology, invasion ecology, decomposition and watershed dynamcs

This is my students all time favorite lab. Students don't understand the full economic or scientific impact of the mining industry until they have gone through this simulation. It's sort of like a geologic monopoly game. It is based in part on the ROA activity and similar activities in various earth science books.

Good online source of images (and UPDATES) from the original book.

pdf copy of "the cartoon guide to the environment."

First introduced to me during my Environmental Education in Curriculum course, I've used a number of these lessons with great success. It's focus is on Place-Based learning activities. The lessons have been tested and developed in classrooms in urban areas, so they work! The books are in pdf and free! The goal is for students to "learn by doing."