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The
following information highlights additional resources about
the river Columbia including environmental
education organizations,
web sites, related curriculum materials and books that will
help your students gain a better appreciation for
the complexity
of the river.
GENERAL
| CURRICULUM RESOURCES | BOOKS
General
State and Provincial Environmental Education Organizations
Environmental
Education member organizations throughout the
Columbia Basin
offer outstanding resources and support services
for educators
including newsletters, web sites, and annual professional
development conferences. Their web sites have links to many
additional resource sites. For more information please see
the following:
Environmental
Education Association of Washington
Environmental
Education Association of Oregon
Idaho Environmental
Education Association
Montana
Environmental Education Association
Columbia
Basin Environmental Education Network
(British Columbia)
Clearing
Magazine
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Curriculum
Resources
Project
WET Project WET (Water Education for
Teachers) is a nonprofit
water education program and publisher for
educators and young
people ages 5-18. The program facilitates and
promotes awareness,
appreciation, knowledge, and stewardship of water resources
through the dissemination of classroom-ready teaching aids
and the establishment of internationally sponsored Project
WET programs.
Healthy
Water, Healthy People is an innovative water
quality education
program sponsored by Project WET and the Hach
Scientific Foundation.
It offers hands-on activity guides, testing kits, training,
and much more. Healthy Water, Healthy People is for anyone
interested in learning about and teaching
contemporary water
quality education topics.
Hands
on the Land A
national network of field testing for educators.
Water
Questions and Answers Water
Science for schools - USGS.
Kids
in the Creek The
Kids in the Creek program provides students with a simple
method of assessing the long-term health of a
stream by viewing
and identifying the aquatic insects and observing the world
they inhabit.
EE-Link:
the place for finding EE resources, people, and action on
the internet locally and nationally.
US
EPA Environmental Education Clearinghouse
This clearinghouse is your tool to locate
environmental education
material available in the Pacific Northwest. The resources
from hundreds of organizations have been
organized in a number
of categories: by audience, by resource type and
by subject.
This site serves the people of Alaska, Idaho,
Oregon, Washington
and 269 Native Tribes.
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Books
A
River Lost, by Lynn Bragg and Virgil
Marchand.
A
River Lost: The Life and Death of the
Columbia, by Blaine
Harden.
A
River Ran Wild, by Lynne Cherry. True story
of how a polluted
river is restored (Grades 2-6)
Come
Back, Salmon, by Molly Cone. How a group of dedicated
kids adopted Pidgeon Creek and brought it back to life in
Oregon. (Grades 1-6)
Geography
of Memory: Recovering Stories of a Landscape's
First People,
by Eileen Delehanty Pearkes.
Letting
Swift River Go, by Jane Yolen. Discusses the
destruction
of homes to create a reservoir for a large city.
(Grades K-4)
Native
River: The Columbia Remembered, by William D. Layman.
Online
River Stories for Kids of All Ages. Including A
Story of the Pacific Northwest Salmon
and
Voyage
to the Pacific,
an
online story of the Columbia River.
Salmon
and His People: Fish and Fishing in Nez Perce Culture,
by Dan Landeen and Allen Pinkham.
Singing
Sand, Burning Sage: Discovering Washington's
Shrub-Steppe,
by Jack Nesbit.
Sources
of the River: Tracking David Thompson Across Western North
America, by Jack Nisbet
The
Journals of Lewis and Clark, by Bernard
DeVoto.
Voyage
of a Summer Sun: Canoeing the Columbia River, by Robin
Cody.
Water:
To the Last Drop Video- Travel to Canada,
the United
States, Mexico, and the Middle East to look at the natural
history of water and investigate the latest
technologies used
to make available water safe.
Where
the River Begins, by Thomas Locker. Two boys follow a
river to its beginnin g.fontp
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