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 Curricula & Classroom Materials

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The ABCs of Ecology: An Educator's Guide to Learning Outside
Ferry Beach Ecology School
Created from first-hand experience, this book is full of lesson plans, worksheets, and ideas for educators. "Includes interdisciplinary approaches...to meet state curriculum goals." Primarily for grades 3-8.


Life with Principle
The Thoreau Society
This educational DVD introduces the ideas of Henry Thoreau through contemporary dilemmas, bringing Thoreau's voice alive in our time and on a global scale.

Living Landscapes Curriculum
Berkshire Museum
Living Landscapes: Teaching in Nature uses outdoor experiential learning to support core subjects in the elementary classroom - math, English language arts, science, and the arts - and provides easy to-follow lessons that use the school grounds and on-hand materials.

The World of the Wetland (pdf)
Berkshire Hills Regional School District
A place-based education curriculum for Monument Valley Middle School, and an excellent model for like curricula in schools far and wide.


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