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Biodiversity Collection Resources for Educators

The Biodiversity Collection

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.

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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]


table of contents
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 Introducing The Biodiversity Collection - Resources for Educators4
 Why Biodiversity?4
 The Environmental Education Process4
 Picking the Best - What Was the Process?5
 The Review Criteria6
 The Review Process7
 Using The Biodiversity Collection8


Curriculum resource reviews
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A Child's Place in the Environment, Unit 3: Preserving and Restoring Ecosystems10
Activities for the Changing Earth12
Adaptations (Regional Environmental Education Program - REEP)14
Alaska's Ecology16
Alberta's Threatened Wildlife18
Animal Tracks20 
Backyard Biodiversity & Beyond22
Biodiversity Basics - Exploring the Web of Life24
Biodiversity: Understanding the Variety of Life26
Biodiversity Works for Wildlife, You Can Too!28
Biological Diversity Makes a World of Difference30
Bottle Biology32
Connections: The Living Planet34
Conservation Biology36
Eco-Inquiry: A Guide to Ecological Learning Experiences38
Ecological Citizenship40
Ecology for All Ages: Discovering Nature through Activities for Children and Adults42
Economics and the Environment44
Eco-Sense: An Economic Environmental Learning Kit46
Endangered Species48
Environmental Education Module on Biological Diversity for Secondary Education50
Environomics: Exploring the Links Between the Economy and the Environment52
Global Environmental Change Series54
Global Environmental Education Resource Guide56
Global Issues in the Middle School58
Global Systems Science Series60
Global Warming and the Greenhouse Effect62
Habitat and Biodiversity64
Health Environmental Literacy Program66
Mud, Muck, and Other Wonderful Things68
Ocean News70
Our Oceans, Ourselves: Marine Biodiversity for Educators72
Our Only Earth Series: A Curriculum for Global Problem Solving74
Population Reference Bureau, Inc76
Project Learning Tree78
Project WET Curriculum and Activity Guide80
Project WILD82
Ranger Rick's NatureScope Series84
Relationships of Living Things, Macmillan/McGraw-Hill Science86
Science-Technology-Society: Preparing for Tomorrow's World88
Teacher's Guide to World Resources: Biodiversity90
Threatened and Endangered Animals: An Extended Case Study92
What Is It? A Guide to Biological Identification
94
Wildlife for the Future96
WOW! The Wonders of Wetlands
98
Zero Population Growth100
Zoobooks: Exploring Ocean Ecosystems102
 Appendix 
 Resource Matrix - an index of resources by grade levels, subjects, and topics104
 

Additional Resources

    General Background
    Children's Books and Magazines
    Mulitmedia Resources
    Biodiversity-Related World Wide Web Sites
    Other Curriculum Resources

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 Index of Authors, Editors, and Publishers114
 Feedback Form116


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