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Five years in the making, A People's Curriculum for the Earth is a collection of articles, role plays, simulations, stories, poems, and graphics to help breathe life into teaching about the environmental crisis. The book features some of the best articles from Rethinking Schools magazine alongside classroom-friendly readings on climate change, energy, water, food, and pollution--as well as on people who are working to make things better. At a time when it's becoming increasingly obvious that life on Earth is at risk, here is a resource that helps students see what's wrong and imagine solutions.

Chapter 1: The Whole Thing Is Connected
We can continue the enclosure of the commons, begun so long ago the privatization and commodification of nature or we can recognize the fundamental truth that we are all connected and that there is nothing private about how we treat the Earth, or each other.

Chapter 2: Grounding Our Teaching
Grounding our students in their communities doesn t just connect them to nature; it also connects them to the ways their communities have been battered by powerful interests, and how race and class have shaped those communities.

Chapter 3: Facing Climate Chaos
Articles in this chapter will help students recognize the significance of the climate crisis and see that the people being hit the hardest are the ones least responsible. Through various activities students consider root causes of the crisis in order to critically think about the deep social changes we will need to respond fairly and decisively.

Chapter 4: Burning the Future
Burning the Future has a metaphorical ring, but it s no metaphor it s literally true: We are burning the future. This chapter deals with the overall issue of fossil fuels and then is divided into three sections: coal, oil, and natural gas and fracking. Yes, we are burning the future. But nothing is inevitable. This is a key lesson from history, and from the activities included in this chapter.

Chapter 5: Teaching in a Toxic World
Articles in this chapter describe how toxic trespass happens in far too many ways in our lives here and around the world. Because of the intimate nature of the toxic trespass, students first reaction may be self-protection or individual consumer choices, rather than collective action. This chapter provides abundant evidence that people are taking collective action.

Chapter 6: Food, Farming, and the Earth
Food embodies many of the ecological problems and social injustices highlighted throughout the book. And similarly, it calls out for activism that recognizes the interconnectedness of these issues.

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To really confront the climate crisis, we need to think differently, build differently, and teach differently. A People's Curriculum for the Earth is an educator s toolkit for our times. --Naomi Klein, author of The Shock Doctrine and This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate

Bigelow and Swinehart have created a critical resource for today's young people about humanity s responsibility for the Earth. This book can engender the shift in perspective so needed at this point on the clock of the universe. --Gregory Smith, Professor of Education, Lewis & Clark College, co-author with David Sobel of Place- and Community-based Education in Schools

This volume is a marvelous example of justice in ALL facets of our lives civil, social, educational, economic, and yes, environmental. Bravo to the Rethinking Schools team for pulling this collection together and making us think more holistically about what we mean when we talk about justice. --Gloria Ladson-Billings, Kellner Family Chair in Urban Education, University of Wisconsin-Madison

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Years in the making, A People's Curriculum for the Earth is a collection of articles, role plays, simulations, stories, poems, and art to help breathe life into teaching about the environmental crisis. The book features some of the best articles from Rethinking Schools magazine alongside classroom-friendly readings on climate change, energy, water, food, and pollution as well as on people who are working to make things better.

At a time when it's becoming increasingly obvious that life on Earth is at risk, here is a resource that helps students see what's wrong and imagine solutions.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Rethinking Schools; First Edition (October 1, 2014)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 400 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0942961579
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0942961577
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.11 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 8.3 x 0.9 x 10.8 inches

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I used this book to write a climate change unit for my 5th graders. The book is well organized, informative, and contains lots of interesting articles and activities. Some of the articles included were a little bit difficult for my students, but I was able to use much of the material in the book.

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An excellent book for many ages. I've used it the teaching of a university class. Action oriented.

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This book helps me to be part of a global group of educators who understand that the most important curriculum doesn't just have climate change mentioned prominently, it IS the curriculum.

After teaching general JH/HS music for many years, I would routinely include climate change info into my lessons. This was the number one resource.

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