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Recommended Books that Help Children Learn about the Environment and the Natural World while Fostering Respect & Appreciation for Living Creatures Please Note: We have added links to purchase all of the recommended books at Amazon.com. Children of the Earth United receives about 5% of the purchase price of items that you add to your cart after clicking one of our Amazon links.

Really cool website for teachers who are planning to teach Amazon. Lots of resources.

A list of historical movies

What a great site. It has everything. Thanks!

We watch "American Dream" today. Swine makes my skin crawl.

My fourth grader and I are reading this right now. He loves it. More accessible to elementary school than the junior version of Omnivore's Dilemma perhaps? Still a bit dry and has some "adult" themes. He glosses over sometimes but other parts he asks me to read again.

This book is a must have for parents and teachers alike! The author dedicated this book to her daughter that has been diagnosed with ADHD. The challenges of being a child whose life is sometimes so hard and the struggles of a parent trying to make the best out of both positive and not-so-positive moments in daily life are shared. I will admit I had tears when I read it, and I feel in our profession we will deal with children just like this little girl. Most importantly, we will need to find a way to help this child have the best day possible each and every day.

I always think that if you are going to show kids what kind of food is healthy, then we should teach them fun ways to eat it!

This is the second part of the footage.

This is the first part of Roosevelt's expedition footage. There's no sound but motion pictures.

I loved watching the videos! I really enjoyed the scenes when they were on the river and on those skinny canoes!! It amazes me they made it out alive on those things!!

It includes a short radio show talking about the book and Roosevelt's adventure, which helps you get a brief idea of the book quickly.

This historical drama is well-regarded by the Wikipedia historians who detail the life of Squanto. Might be worth a watch.

Hi, Debi! I also love TED Talks like Joe and because of that I'm a little sad I may not be able to include them in my classroom if I teach in the primary grades like I hope to do. Where I'm at now, I hope that technology will be a help and not in a hindrance in my classroom. I think that using YouTube projected on the Smart Board would be a great way to show read alouds of books I don't have in the classroom, for kids yoga, Go Noodle, chromebooks for ABCYA, playing music for cleanup or relaxing music during writer's workshop, using an Amazon Echo in the classroom for music and timers as well as a break time for kids to ask it questions, etc. I've heard from my mentor school that they use Class Dojo to stay updated with parents and I hope to learn more about that. I know that Google Classroom is great and is what my mentor school used for distance learning.