Biodiversity Collection

The Biodiversity Collection - Resources for Educators

The Biodiversity Collection is designed to help educators find outstanding curricula, multimedia resources, and other educational materials that can enhance biodiversity teaching in a variety of settings. The Biodiversity Collection was produced by World Wildlife Fund in association with the North American Association for Environmental Education with support from Eastman Kodak Company and the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation.

The Curriculum materials included in The Biodiversity Collection: Resources for Educators were reviewed and evaluated by teams of classrooms teachers, content experts, and environmental educators. The materials were evaluated using the Environmental Education Materials: Guidelines for Excellence developed by the North American Association for Environmental Education.

The resources reviewed in this guide provide dozens of ideas for developing lesson plans, units, and courses that focus on biodiversity. These are some of the best resources available today for developing exemplary environmental education programs. The Biodiversity Collection is a part of a series of environmental education resource guides designed to help educators find exemplary teaching materials. Other guides include The Environmental Education Collection: Volume 1, Volume 2, and Volume 3, which are compendia of general environmental education resources on a variety of topics.

Table of Contents
The Biodiversity Collection:
Resources for Educators

The collecton consists of two major parts. The first part highlights 47 of the best supplementary curricula evaluated by reviewers focusing on some aspect of biodiversity. The second part includes an annotated bibliography that features general background information, children's books and magazines, multimedia resources, web sites, and a variety of other resources focused on biodiversity issues. Although these materials were also reviewed, the review was not as extensive and the goal was to include a variety of high-quality supplementary materials that would enhance a biodiversity unit or program.

Click on the resource titles to see a brief description of each curriculum or resource and the review summary [PDF]

Introducing The Biodiversity Collection - Resources for Educators	Page 4
Why Biodiversity?	Page 4
The Environmental Education Process	Page 4
Picking the Best - What Was the Process?	Page 5
The Review Criteria	Page 6
The Review Process	Page 7
Using The Biodiversity Collection	Page 8