Contents
Acknowledgements
Foreword
Bill McKibben
Preface
Section I Setting the Stage for Elementary Teachers, with Eyes Wide Open
1 Teaching in Times of Environmental Crises: What on Earth are Elementary Teachers to Do?
Ken Winograd
2 Loving and Protecting Earth, Our Home
Nel Noddings
3 A Twilight Dance in the Snow: Thinking about Environmental Identity Development
Carie Green and Michael Brody
Section II Place-based Education: From Appreciation of Nature to Community Activism
4 Learning Care for the Earth with Krishnamurti
Simon Boxley, Gopal Krishnamurthy, and Mary-Ann Ridgway
5 Sowing Seeds of Stewardship through Intergenerational Gardening
Jolie Mayer-Smith and Linda Peterat
6 The Naturalist-in-Residence: Learning with Students and Teachers in the Outdoors
Ted Watt
7 A-ha! Animal habitat art: Creating Connections in, about, and through Art and Nature
Geraldine Burke
8 Honoring the Sacred Land: Students in Conversation
Linda Wason-Ellam
9 Creating Meaningful Opportunities for Children to Engage with Climate Change Education
Candice Satchwell
10 Acts of Resistance: Decolonizing Classroom Practice through Place-Based Education
Christy Radbourne
11 "Dapto Dreaming": A Place-based Environmental Education Project Supporting Children to be Agents of Change
Karen Malone
Section III Teaching Peace
12 Nurturing Social and Ecological Relationships: The Contribution of Conflict Resolution Education
Rhys Kelly
13 An Ethics-based Pedagogy
Ben Paxton, Ingrid Hakala, and Sahtiya Hammell
14 Environmental Ethics: Reflections on Valuing Nature Rightly
Allen Thompson
Section IV Children's Activism: From the Local to the Global
15 The New Realism: A Rationale for Supporting Children's Climate Activism
Hilary Whitehouse
16 Urgent Global Problems Require Teacher Agency
Julie Andrzejewski
17 Teaching Climate Change with Hope and Solutions: Lessons from a Film Project
Lynne Cherry
Section V Explicit Teaching to Support Children's Emotions and Resilience
18 Supporting Children Emotionally in Times of Climate Disruption: Teaching Practices and Strategies
Molly Young Brown
19 Preparing Children for the Emotional Challenges of Climate Change: A Review of the Research
Maria Ojala
20 Rescuing the Earth through Small World Play
Sharon Witt and Helen Clarke
21 Children as Change Agents in Reducing Risks of Disasters
Mayeda Rashid, Kevin R. Ronan, and Briony Towers
Section VI Opportunities for Professional Development: Teachers Moving Ahead, with Urgency
22 Cultivating Curriculum Wisdom: Meeting the Professional Development Challenges of the Environmental Crisis
Kathleen Kesson
23 A Rural Girl's Global View on the Environmental Challenge: Advice for Elementary Teachers
Amy Krol
24 : There's No Time to Waste: Teachers, Act with Courage and Conviction!
Ken Winograd
Supplemental Resources
About the Authors
Index