Part of the Tunza (Swahili for treating with care & affection) Series sponsored by the United Nations Environment Programme http://www.unep.orgto inspire awareness and caring for the Earth in children, parents and teachers. On her way to find water for her family who live in a desertified community, Trishna hits her head and falls unconscious. In this state she imagines, the Wind, Water, Earth and Sun talking to her of how to treat them as her ancestors did. When she awakens and is found, her family and neighbors conclude that something must be done to restore water to their village, and eventually Trishna’s dream becomes a reality. Fiction P/I
Categories: Food and Agriculture Type: Article Tags UNEP 6 - Clean Water and Sanitation
Founded by chef Alice Waters to assist educators worldwide in building and sharing an edible education curriculum. Provides 3-5 days on site professional development w/ongoing coaching and planning assistance, and a site license to their Curriculum Resource Center, a subscription based digital library of resources with lesson plans tied to common core standards. Info at Edible Schoolyard
Categories: Children Food and Agriculture Peace Education Social Justice Type: Toolkit Website Tags Creative Change Educational Solutions Why the world’s water resources are at risk and how communities globally are finding innovative ways to quench their thirst and water their crops. Also, by this author Brilliant a welcoming introduction to alternative energy.
Categories: Climate Change Type: Book Tags OCRA Book Publishers A cooperative program of the (202-326-5800) has produced a series of colorful posters with learning materials and activities on the back. Copies are also available in Spanish.
Categories: Climate Change Countries: United States Type: Fact Sheet Toolkit Website Tags USGS The true story of a mother in Ethiopia who sacrifices her young daughter to adoption in the US, in order to provide her with food, water and a better life.
Categories: Children Countries: Ethiopia Type: Picture Book A learning by doing workbook on water for children; colorful self-teaching tool that includes quizzes, puzzles, stories and activities. Students learn the word for water in many languages, calculate their own family’s daily use of water, and the amount of freshwater compared to salt on earth, how to measure rainfall, the army of water pollutants and where they come from and so much more. It comes with an interactive CD.
Categories: Food and Agriculture Sustainable Development Goals Type: Book The Earth Institute at Columbia University Publishes a guide to educational programs on the environment and sustainable development, an annual report on the state of the planet, and The Economist Magazine
Categories: Climate Change Sustainable Development Goals Type: Website Tags Earth Institute at Columbia University