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As if the Earth Matters

As if the Earth Matters

Recommitting to Environmental Education

Is environmental education succeeding in producing an eco-aware and conscientious population, or has it "flat-lined"?

Lavishly illustrated and packed with fun-filled outdoor educational activities As If The Earth Matters shows how through immersing …

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Everyone Wins!

Everyone Wins!

Cooperative Games and Activities

This new edition of the best-selling Parent Choice Award winner Everyone Wins! is a handbook of more than 150 cooperative games and activities for enhancing conflict resolution and communication skills and building self-esteem. Encouraging …

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EcoKids

EcoKids

Raising Children Who Care for the Earth

To forge a sustainable future, we need citizens who care for the Earth. We need citizens who understand that planet care is the ultimate form of self-care. But we also need generations who live according to their values and convictions and who can …

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Teaching Green - The Elementary Years

Teaching Green - The Elementary Years

Hands-on Learning in Grades K-5

Teaching Green - The Elementary Years is designed for anyone working with young people in grades kindergarten to five, whether in schools or non-formal education settings. It offers 50 kid-tested teaching strategies that promote interdisciplinary …

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The Power and Promise of Humane Education

The Power and Promise of Humane Education

Critical world problems call for education that addresses the values and behaviors that perpetuate suffering, oppression, and destruction. Humane education does this, offering young people deeply meaningful education about the issues of our time, …

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Teaching Green

Teaching Green

The Middle Years

For anyone working with young people in grades 6-8 -- whether inside or outside schools -- Teaching Green contains over 50 of the best activities and teaching strategies contributed to Green Teacher magazine over the last 10 years by educators from …

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Above All Be Kind

Above All Be Kind

Raising a Humane Child in Challenging Times

Above All, Be Kind teaches parents how to raise their children to be humane in the broadest sense -- to become not only more compassionate in their interactions with family and friends, but to grow up to make life choices that demonstrate respect …

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Seeing Red

Seeing Red

An Anger Management and Peacemaking Curriculum for Kids

Seeing Red is a curriculum designed to help elementary and middle-school aged students better understand their anger so they can make healthy and successful choices and build strong relationships. Overall it aims for participants to realize that …

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