Post-Visit
Activities : Helping Wildlife Communities : Resources
Third - Fifth Grade Online Curriculum : Communities
Third - Fifth Grade Online Curriculum : Communities
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Post-Visit
Activities : Helping Wildlife Communities : Resources
Third - Fifth Grade Online Curriculum : Communities |
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Teacher
Reference Books
Baskin, Yvonne. The Work of Nature: How the Diversity of Life Sustains Us,
Island Press, Washington, D.C., 1997.
This book looks at how human existence is dependent on preserving wildlife communities
and biodiversity.
Carson, Rachel. Silent Spring, Houghton Mifflin Co., 1993.
This book, first published in 1962, was a powerful look at how pesticides have
affected the natural world. It led to the banning of DDT and helped start the
environmental movement.
DiSilvestro, Roger L. Audubon Perspectives: Fight for Survival, John
Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York, 1990.
This book is a series of essays using text and photographs to discuss a variety
of wildlife issues affecting our planet today.
Leopold, Aldo. A Sand County Almanac, Oxford University Press, New York,
1949.
This classic of nature writing was one of the first texts to examine the ethical
reasons of why humans need to preserve wild places.
Morgan, Sally. Ecology and Environment: The Cycles of Life, Oxford University
Press, New York, 1995.
This book is formatted for easy reference, and uses text, photographs and illustrations
to show how biotic and abiotic factors are interconnected across the planet.
National Geographic Magazine, Vol. 195, No. 2, February, 1999. "Biodiversity:
The Fragile Web".
This special issue is a great introduction to the concepts and problems associated
with biodiversity.
Ricklefs, Robert E. and Gary L. Miller. Ecology, W.H. Freeman Company,
1999.
Though, admittedly, college textbooks are often a little dry and complex, they
are often the best resources for finding information on a particular subject.
This textbook introduces the reader to the science of and problems associated
with ecology.
Tudge, Colin. The Variety of Life, Oxford University Press, New York,
2000.
This reference book looks at the diversity of life by showing the taxonomic
relationships between all of the living things that are currently known.
Wallace, David Rains. Life in the Balance, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich,
Publishers, New York, 1987.
This text looks at ecological interdependence in a variety of ecosystems and
of the human efforts to preserve these ecosystems.
Wilson, Edward O. The Diversity of Life, Harvard University Press, Cambridge,
1992.
This Pulitzer Prize winning book by one of the world's foremost scientists looks
at what happens to biodiversity when mass extinctions occur such as the one
we are in today.
Teacher Reference Websites
National Audubon Society
http://www.audubon.org/
This website includes information on this conservation organization as well
as on education ideas, conservation issues and species profiles.
National Wildlife Federation
http://www.nwf.org/
This website includes information on this conservation organization as well
as on education ideas, conservation issues and Ranger Rick's Kid Zone.
The Nature Conservancy
http://nature.org/
This website includes information on this conservation organization that preserves
wildlife communities by buying and protecting the land they inhabit.
Sierra Club
http://www.sierraclub.org/
This website includes information on this conservation organization as well
as on conservation issues and how to take action.
South Carolina Coastal
Conservation League
http://www.scccl.org/
This website includes information on this local conservation organization for
the preservation of South Carolina's coast, as well as on conservation issues
and how to take action.
South Carolina Heritage
Trust
http://water.dnr.state.sc.us/wild/heritage/preserve.html
This website includes information on this program of the South Carolina Department
of Natural Resources that preserves land of natural and cultural significance
in South Carolina.
South Carolina Native
Plants Society
http://cufp.clemson.edu/scnativeplants/
This website includes information on the society, on the native plants of South
Carolina and on the issues related to native and exotic species. It also contains
links to related websites.
The Wilderness Society
http://www.wilderness.org/
This website includes information on this conservation organization as well
as on conservation issues, how to take action and a kid's page.
World Wildlife Fund
http://www.worldwildlife.org/
This website includes information on this conservation organization as well
as on conservation issues, how to take action, education ideas, animal profiles
and biodiversity topics.
Student
Reference Books
Cone, Molly. Come Back, Salmon, Sierra Club Books for Children, San Francisco,
1992.
Learn how the students of Jackson Elementary School in Everett, Washington,
cleaned a nearby stream, stocked it with salmon and protected it from pollution.
Herda, D.J. Environmental
America: The Southeastern States, The Millbrook Press, Brookfield, CT, 1991.
A student's look at the environmental issues affecting the Southeastern United
States.
Hoff, Mary and Mary M. Rodgers.
Our Endangered Planet: Life on Land, Lerner Publications Company, Minneapolis,
1995.
This book discusses different wildlife communities and some of the issues affecting
them.
Hoff, Mary and Mary M. Rodgers.
Our Endangered Planet: Population Growth, Lerner Publications Company,
Minneapolis, 1995.
This book explains population growth, how this affects wildlife communities
and what can be done about it.
Hoffman, Nancy. Celebrate
the States: South Carolina, Benchmark Books, New York, 2001.
A children's book on the history and culture of South Carolina as well as sections
on the geography and wildlife of the region of the state.
Kent, Deborah. America
the Beautiful: South Carolina, Children's Press, Danbury, CT, 1990.
A children's book on the history and culture of South Carolina as well as sections
on the geography and wildlife of the region of the state.
Liptak, Karen. Saving
Our Wetlands and Their Wildlife, Franklin Watts, New York, 1991.
This book describes the different types of wetlands and the wildlife found there.
It also includes ideas for protecting the wetland habitats.
Mattson, Mark. Scholastic
Environmental Atlas of the United States, Scholastic Inc., 1993.
This excellent reference book is filled with maps and charts that help kids
to understand different aspects of environmental issues such as overpopulation
and waste disposal.
McVey, Vicki. The Sierra
Club Kid's Guide to Planet Care & Repair, Sierra Club Books for Children,
San Francisco, 1993.
Learn how activities we do everyday affect the environment. Includes tips for
improving our environment as well as classroom activities for students.
Pantent, Dorothy Hinshaw.
Biodiversity, Clarion Books, New York, 1996.
A students look at biodiversity around the world and the issues pertaining to
it.
Student
Fiction Books
Cherry, Lynne. The
Great Kapok Tree, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Publishers, New York, 1990.
A man getting ready to chop down a tree in the Amazon rainforest falls asleep
and is visited by many different members of the rainforest wildlife community
who tell him why they do not want the tree to be cut down.
Cherry, Lynne. A River
Ran Wild, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Publishers, New York, 1992.
A beautifully illustrated story of how a river in New England has changed during
the last 400 years as more people moved to live on its banks.
George, Jean Craighead.
My Side of the Mountain, Puffin Books, New York, 1959.
A boy runs away from the urban sprawl of New York City to live by himself in
the Catskill Mountains and must learn to survive in this environment.
Jeffers, Susan. Brother
Eagle, Sister Sky: A Message From Chief Seattle, Dial Books, New York, 1991.
A beautifully illustrated book of the ecological message of Chief Seattle, an
Indian chief who lived in the Pacific Northwest from 1790 to 1866.
Seuss, Dr. The Lorax,
Random House, New York, 1971. |
The story of what happens to a community when the Once-ler cuts down all of
the Truffula Trees.
Curricula
Aquatic Project WILD
Aquatic Project WILD is an interdisciplinary curriculum for K-12 teachers on
aquatic wildlife and ecosystems. The activities cover a broad range of environmental
and conservation topics. For information on workshops, call the South Carolina
Department of Natural Resources at (803) 734-3814.
For more information click on: www.dnr.state.sc.us/cec/educate/edu1.html#teacher
Project WILD
Project WILD is an interdisciplinary curriculum for K-12 teachers on a broad
range of environmental and conservation topics. For information on workshops,
call the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources at (803) 734-3814.
For more information click on: www.dnr.state.sc.us/cec/educate/edu1.html#teacher
Field
Trip Sites
Visiting any of South Carolina's preserved natural areas, be it state park,
national wildlife refuge or whatever else, allows students to view preserved
wildlife communities and to understand the importance of conserving them. Two
sites in the state stand out because of their innovative approach to preserving
wildlife communities. These are the ACE Basin and the Jocassee Gorges Project.
The ACE Basin
The ACE Basin is the joint effort of national, state and private organizations
to preserve 200,000 acres of coastal wetlands and upland areas. Many diverse
ecosystems and communities are preserved within this site. Access to the Ace
Basin for school groups is available at these sites.:
ACE Basin National Wildlife
Refuge
(843) 889-3084
Bear Island Wildlife
Management Area
(843) 844-8957
ACE Basin National Estuarine
Research Reserve
(843) 762-5032
Jocassee Gorges Project
This project of the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources Heritage
Trust program is looking to preserve 33,000 acres of mountain wilderness. For
information, call (803) 734-3893, or click on: http://www.jocassee.org/
If you are aware of other books, videos, websites, curricula, fieldtrip destinations or other materials that would make excellent resources for this activity, please e-mail them to us for inclusion in this list at: Education@scaquarium.org