RESOURCES
| Resource: | Caring for the Environment |
| Author/Publisher: | Ros Bayley and Lynn Broadbent Hopscotch Educational Publishing |
| ISBN: | 1 -902239-37-7 |
| Description: | Photocopiable resource based on children's storybooks. Personal, moral, social and cultural education ideas. |
| Resource: | The Outdoor Classroom |
| Author/Publisher: | Brian Keanley and Bill Lucas Scholastic |
| ISBN: | 0- 590-53034-8 |
| Description: | A Bright Ideas book with cross curricular activities. |
| Resource: | Wee Green Fingers Fun Pack - Free |
| Author/Publisher: | Scottish Natural Heritage Telephone 01382 553704 |
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| Description: | This is free and contains cards, games, facts sheets, stickers and sunflower seeds. Very good for Nurseries and Early Years. |
| Resource: | Water World |
| Author/Publisher: | UNEP |
| ISBN: | 92-807-2388-X |
| Description: | An educational booklet on water around the world for children. |
| Resource: | An Eco School - £7.99 |
| Author/Publisher: | Franklin Watts |
| ISBN: | 07496-4365-X |
| Description: | A book all about becoming an Eco School. |
| Resource: | Life on the Sands Education Pack |
| Author/Publisher: | Scottish Natural Heritage |
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| Description: | An education pack about Tentsmuir Point. |
| Resource: | Action for Biodiversity |
| Author/Publisher: | Telephone 01592 413437 |
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| Description: | Fife Local Biodiversity Action Plan. |
| Resource: | Take a Pride in Fife - Free |
| Author/Publisher: | Telephone 01592 416154 |
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| Description: | Environmental Strategy for Fife 2003-2006. |
| Resource: | Take a Pride in Fife - folder - Free |
| Author/Publisher: | Telephone 01592 416154 |
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| Description: | An A4 folder containing a showcase of projects and initiatives working towards a sustainable and inclusive. Fife. This should already be in all schools. |
| Resource: | Take a Pride in Fife - Education Service Pack - Free |
| Author/Publisher: | Telephone 01592 414600 |
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| Description: | Pack to involve decision making about local and global environment and sustainability. |
| Resource: | Reduce, Reuse, recycle |
| Author/Publisher: | Nicky Scott Green Books Telephone 01803 863260 www.greenbooks.co.uk |
| ISBN: | 1-903998-40-9 |
| Description: | An easy guide to the contents of the average dustbin and what we can do to help the environment. |
| Resource: | Go M.A.D. - Go Make a Difference - £3.99 |
| Author/Publisher: | Green Books Telephone 01803 863260 www.greenbooks.co.uk |
| ISBN: | 0-954136-306 |
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| Resource: | Go M.A.D. 2 - Go Make a Difference - £6.99 |
| Author/Publisher: | Jo Bourne Think Publishing available from Green Books |
| ISBN: | 0-9541363 -2- 2 |
| Description: | 500 practical ideas and useful tips on how we can all take daily actions that will benefit our environment, ecology and community. |
| Resource: | Ecology begins at Home - £4.95 |
| Author/Publisher: | Archie Duncan Available from Green Books from 25 November |
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| Description: | One man's first steps on a journey towards an environmentally friendly home and an easier conscience. |
| Resource: | 101 Ways to Save the Earth - £5.99 |
| Author/Publisher: | David Bellamy Francis Lincoln Limited |
| ISBN: | 0-7112-2161-8 |
| Description: | Exciting projects for children which will help them to save energy, protect wildlife and clean up our planet. |
| Resource: | Junior Focus No 88 (April 95) Recycling |
| Author/Publisher: | Scholastic |
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| Description: | Activities - Waste and recycling. Reuse and recycle. Recycling in nature. Community and World views. |
| Resource: | Junior Focus No 76 (April 94) Extinction |
| Author/Publisher: | Scholastic |
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| Description: | Activities - Why living things can become extinct. A world of Change - how changes in the environment can threaten people as well as plants and animals. |
| Resource: | Junior Focus No 175 (July 2002) Improving the Local Environment |
| Author/Publisher: | Scholastic |
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| Description: | Activities - School improvements. People in the Community. The impact of humans on the local environment. Parkland case study and investigation. Focus on sustainability. |
| Resource: | Junior Focus No 143 (Nov 99) The Changing Environment |
| Author/Publisher: | Scholastic |
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| Description: | Activities - Concept of Global. Citizenship. Bird extinction. Advice on using literature to teach environmental change. Changing locality. Farming methods and the environment. |
| Resource: | Junior Focus No 76 (July 97) Places in Danger |
| Author/Publisher: | Scholastic |
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| Description: | Activities - Investigating living things in endangered environments. Places under threat at home and abroad. |
| Resource: | Infant Projects No 119 (June 98) The Environment |
| Author/Publisher: | Scholastic |
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| Description: | Activities - Environmental word banks. Maths at the local shops. Recycling and testing different papers. Poster making - recycling |
| Resource: | Junior Focus No 78 (June 94) Changing Landscapes |
| Author/Publisher: | Scholastic |
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| Description: | Activities - Weathering, erosion, earthquakes and volcanoes. Local changes - good and bad - and the issues involved. Investigating change in the local landscape. Changing the landscape around the school. |
| Resource: | Junior Focus No 87 (Mar 1995) Land Use |
| Author/Publisher: | Scholastic |
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| Description: | Activities - Finding out about land use in your locality and how it affects everyday life. Investigation of local area looking for evidence of the past. Good and bad points of land use. How the environment is affected by land use. |
| Resource: | 'Fun with' Series: Recycling / Gardening / Paper - £7.95 each |
| Author/Publisher: | Available from www.cat.org.uk - go to the Green Shop, Children's Books Section |
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| Description: | Each book contains 50 great projects for children to make and do - from squeezy bottle bracelets and stylish paper photo frames, to mini ponds and 'blooming boots'. As well as clearly describing how to do each project they also introduce lots of concepts to stimulate a child's imagination. |
| Resource: | 'How it Works' Series: The Environment / The World's Weather - £3.99 each |
| Author/Publisher: | Available from www.cat.org.uk - go to the Green Shop, Children's Books Section |
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| Description: | Excellent series providing information and explanations using superb, large-format illustrations and easy to understand text. Ideal for ages 7+. |
| Resource: | Astonishing Art with Recycled Rubbish - £3.99 |
| Author/Publisher: | Available from www.cat.org.uk - go to the Green Shop, Children's Books Section |
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| Description: | A book packed with ideas to create arty masterpieces and gifts from old junk. Children can impress their friends and help the environment by turning junk into amazing works of art. Age 6+. |
| Resource: | Blue Peter Action Watch Series: Earth Watch / Animal Watch / Food Watch / Ocean Watch - £7.99 each |
| Author/Publisher: | Available from www.cat.org.uk - go to the Green Shop, Children's Books Section |
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| Description: | Young person's guides to protecting the planet. Each book explains current concerns about the environment and helps plan the future with practical ideas that can really make a difference. With 'Action Globes' for each topic that suggest practical ways to keep the planet healthy. Comprehensive listings of worldwide environmental organisations and websites. |
| Resource: | Dinosaurs and all that Rubbish - £5.99 |
| Author/Publisher: | Foreman Available from www.cat.org.uk - go to the Green Shop, Children's Books Section |
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| Description: | While Man is out exploring the stars, the dinosaurs come back and clean up the polluted wastes left behind. Man is only allowed back if he respects and shares the new 'paradise'. 4 - 8 years. |
| Resource: | Dirty Planet - the FoE guide to pollution - £4.99 |
| Author/Publisher: | Clayton Available from www.cat.org.uk - go to the Green Shop, Children's Books Section |
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| Description: | This book will help you to make changes to make the Earth a better place. It is packed with easy and practical tips on how to make your home, school and neighbourhood greener' and how to influence your local council and government. It gives you the low down on the most pressing of our pollution problems and tells you who is to blame. |
| Resource: | Global Warming - £4.99 |
| Author/Publisher: | Pearce Available from www.cat.org.uk - go to the Green Shop, Children's Books Section |
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| Description: | Using a stimulating mix of lively illustrations and expert, jargon-free text, important scientific topics are clearly explained in layman's terms. Aimed at all ages from about 14 to adult. An interesting read that certainly clarify the issues involved. |
| Resource: | Rescue Mission Planet Earth 2002 - £7.99 |
| Author/Publisher: | Available from www.cat.org.uk - go to the Green Shop, Children's Books Section |
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| Description: | How far have we come since Rio? An update to the illustrated summary, produced by a group of children, to make the Agenda 21 document accessible to all. Children's assessments and stories about the changes - or lack of them - seen in their communities. It re-states the Agenda 21 goals and lists the Millennium Development Goals for 2015. A book for all ages. |
| Resource: | Sustainable Human Development - £7.99 |
| Author/Publisher: | Available from www.cat.org.uk - go to the Green Shop, Children's Books Section |
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| Description: | A young people's introduction based on U.N. reports giving a summary of the major themes - human rights, gender, jobless growth, consumption, the peace dividend and the widening gap between rich and poor. Put together by an international team of young people in an accessible form. Packed with graphs, photos, charts, paintings. |
| Resource: | The Gardening Book - £6.99 |
| Author/Publisher: | Available from www.cat.org.uk - go to the Green Shop, Children's Books Section |
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| Description: | Just right for budding gardeners, this book is full of gardening projects to do with or without a garden, indoors or outdoors - a meadow in a bucket or create a miniature dinosaur world. With photographic step-by-step instructions, it is a great introduction to developing a lifelong interest in this hobby. |
| Resource: | The Living Earth - £4.99 |
| Author/Publisher: | Schmid Available from www.cat.org.uk - go to the Green Shop, Children's Books Section |
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| Description: | A beautifully illustrated book, telling of the complex ecosystem beneath our feet and how heavily we depend on our planet and its resources. Also how our exploitation of these resources could threaten ours and its future survival. Age5+. |
| Resource: | The Water's Journey - £3.99 |
| Author/Publisher: | Schmid Available from www.cat.org.uk - go to the Green Shop, Children's Books Section |
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| Description: | A beautifully illustrated book, telling of the complex ecosystem beneath our feet and how heavily we depend on our planet and its resources. Also how our exploitation of these resources could threaten ours and its future survival. Age5+. |
| Resource: | The Lorax - £4.99 |
| Author/Publisher: | Seuss Available from www.cat.org.uk - go to the Green Shop, Children's Books Section |
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| Description: | The story of a Once-ler who exploited a beautiful paradise creating a lifeless desert. Is this the story of the earth? The Lorax comes to the rescue and gives young readers both a warning and a hope for the future of their environment. |
| Resource: | The Tiny Seed - £4.99 |
| Author/Publisher: | Carle Available from www.cat.org.uk - go to the Green Shop, Children's Books Section |
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| Description: | From the author of The Very Hungry Caterpillar a delightful book about the fate of a tiny flower seed and what befalls the other seeds as a group of them are swept around the world across seas, mountains and deserts. A book that will be read again and again. |
| Resource: | What Lives in the Garden? - £4.99 |
| Author/Publisher: | Available from www.cat.org.uk - go to the Green Shop, Children's Books Section |
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| Description: | Children discover the creatures galore that slide, slither and scuttle through the undergrowth, flowerbeds and hedgerows. This book will help awareness of what's outside their own back door and make them look, with an informed eye, at the teeming world in every garden. Includes insects in magnified detail. |
| Resource: | Why Should I ……? Series: Recycle / Save Energy / Save Water - £4.99 each |
| Author/Publisher: | Available from www.cat.org.uk - go to the Green Shop, Children's Books Section |
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| Description: | Excellent set of books for teaching very young children about the importance of environmental issues. Amusing pictures and simple text. |
| Resource: | Earthwise - £8.99 |
| Author/Publisher: | Petrash Available from www.cat.org.uk - go to the Green Shop, Educational Books Section |
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| Description: | A year-round programme of practical ideas for encouraging the environmental awareness of young children. Through graded seasonal activities the children learn how to play safely with the 4 elements elements whilst developing a knowledge and respect for the Earth and its creatures. |
| Resource: | Earth Care Series: Water and Wildlife / Forestry and Farming - £5.99 each |
| Author/Publisher: | Available from www.cat.org.uk - go to the Green Shop, Educational Books Section |
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| Description: | Guides to planet management aimed at young people explaining the riches of the earth, why things are going wrong and how there is still - just - time to put things right. Case studies from around the world, maps, diagrams, photos looking at resources, problems and solutions. |
| Resource: | Learning About Lifecycles Using an Organic Garden - £9.95 |
| Author/Publisher: | Mitchell and Randall Available from www.cat.org.uk - go to the Green Shop, Educational Books Section |
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| Description: | This book uses the idea of growing small amounts of food at school in order to help understanding of how some of food is grown, reducing and recycling classroom waste and encouraging understanding of our interdependent relationship with other living things. 20 lesson plans aimed at children between P5 - 7 with photocopiable worksheets. |
| Resource: | Let's Enjoy Nature - £8.99 |
| Author/Publisher: | Masheder Available from www.cat.org.uk - go to the Green Shop, Educational Books Section |
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| Description: | Over 500 ideas for activities not just devoted to nature, but also to the ideas of recycling, re-using, saving energy etc. It is aimed at all ages from 3 - 16 and encourages young people to take an active role in caring for the planet. |
| Resource: | Play lightly on the Earth - £10.99 |
| Author/Publisher: | Horsefall Available from www.cat.org.uk - go to the Green Shop, Educational Books Section |
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| Description: | This book contains great ideas for parents, teachers, youth group leaders etc to inspire Eco-awareness in children. Based on sound scientific concepts, with an emphasis on creative thinking, problem-solving and skill development (all in the guise of play). It helps adults introduce nature to 3 to 9 year olds in a sensitive yet exciting way. |
| Resource: | Science with Technology Series: Energy in Kalyanpura / Evaluating Environmental Impact / Green Buildings / Cars and the Environment - £6.00 each Science with Technology Series: Making Use of Renewable Energy / Managing Energy - £12.00 each |
| Author/Publisher: | Available from www.cat.org.uk - go to the Green Shop, Educational Books Section |
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| Description: | These excellent books provide material for pupils to use (photocopiable) and guidance for teachers.They also help develop awareness of global issues. |
| Resource: | Sharing Nature with Children Volumes 1 and 2 - £8.99 each |
| Author/Publisher: | Cornell Available from www.cat.org.uk - go to the Green Shop, Educational Books Section |
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| Description: | An approach to nature education through games - adaptable to the urban or suburban environment - that will make the teaching and learning fun. |
| Resource: | Star Quiz Survival Test - £0.50 |
| Author/Publisher: | Available from www.cat.org.uk - go to the Green Shop, Educational Books Section |
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| Description: | 100 multiple-choice questions for 10-14 year olds to test environmental awareness. |
| Resource: | Worms Eat Our Garbage - £17.95 |
| Author/Publisher: | Applehof Available from www.cat.org.uk - go to the Green Shop, Educational Books Section |
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| Description: | Uses science, maths, language etc - to study all aspects of worms with contents such as 'The Disappearing Dinner' and 'My Day as a Worm'. |
| Resource: | Citizenship for the Future - A Practical Classroom Guide - £11.99 |
| Author/Publisher: | Hicks, WWFAvailable from www.cat.org.uk - go to the Green Shop, Educational Books Section |
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| Description: | This is a handbook or teachers which provides practical support for those who wish to bring citizenship and a concern for the future into their classroom teaching. It contains detailed activities and photocopiable material. |
| Resource: | Seed to Success - The Take a pride in Fife Environmental Project Toolkit |
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| Description: | This is a guide to seting up and running successful environmental projects. |