Ecology

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• Ecosystems. Grade 6. [kit] / compiled by Curriculum Materials. -- [S.l. : s.n.],
  c1993-1998.
  22 books (various titles). -- (Small worlds)
  • RN 1-97373.
    Grade level: Int.
    Contents: BOOKS: Arctic & Antarctic -- The breathing Earth -- Children
    save the rain forest -- The coniferous forest -- A Dead log -- Deserts &
    drylands -- Ecology -- A freshwater pong -- Forests (2 c.) -- Mountains &
    valleys -- A rain forest tree -- Rainforests -- Rivers & lakes -- A
    saguaro cactus -- Take action -- The temperate forest -- A tidal pool --
    The tropical forest -- Under a stone -- What are food chains and webs? --
    What is a biome?.

Web Resources

• How to Save the Planet - Students put together a booklet of ways to save the environment.
• 30 Good Reasons for Trees - Students create their own book of ideas about saving the environment.

Related Novel Sets Available from the Curriculum Materials Centre

• Clearcut Danger by Lesley Choyce - When Alana, a Micmac girl, and her friend Ryan take on a logging company that threatens to change their environment, the two friends face several challenges. They find themselves being opposed by workers and family members who owe their jobs to logging, and by company representatives who see only dollar signs. Tom Murray, who represents the logging company, is a dangerous man, but when research by Alana and Ryan proves that he is misleading the townspeople about the mill's safety, the youngsters persevere in their struggle and win. In the process, Ryan learns much about the Micmac culture and about himself.
• Who Really Killed Cock Robin? by Jean Craighead George - Eighth-grader Tony Isidoro follows a trail of environmental clues to try and figure out what ecological imbalances might have caused the death of the town's best-known robin.
• California Blue by David Klass - When seventeen-year-old John Rodgers discovers a new sub-species of butterfly which may necessitate closing the mill where his dying father works, they find themselves on opposite sides of the environmental conflict.

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