Earth Day 2008

"Earth Day is a time to celebrate gains we have made and create new visions to accelerate environmental progress. Earth Day is a time to unite around new actions. Earth Day and every day is a time to act to protect our planet." - Earth Day.gov

Juvenile Book Resources:

• Earth Day-hooray
  QA141.M87 2004
• Earth Day
  GE195.5 .A57 2001
• The Lorax
  PZ8.3.G276 Lo 1971
• Where once there was a wood
  QL59.F58 1996
• One grain of sand: a lullaby
  PZ8.3.S4505 On 2002
• How we know what we know about our changing climate: scientists and kids explore global warming
  QC981.8.C5 C475 2008
• An inconvenient truth: the crisis of global warming
  QC981.8.G56 G67 2007
• The down-to-earth guide to global warming
  QC981.8.G56 D38 2007
• Endangered planet
  GF 75.B87 2004
• Oceans: how we use the seas
  GC21.5.D47 2008
• Tropical forests
  QH541.5.R27 A45 2006
• Earth Mother
  PZ7.J13247 Ea 2005

Activity Book Resources:

• The best holiday crafts ever
  ACTIV Holi 1997
• Plays around the year: more than 20 thematic plays for the classroom
  ACTIV Plays 1994 Gr. 1-3

Video & DVD Resources:

• Magic school bus in the rain forest
  VC 1464
• An inconvenienet truth
  DVD 0400
• Dimming the sun
  DVD 0478
• Suess celebration (The Lorax)
  DVD 0347
• Future conditional
  DVD 0337
• The state of the planet
  DVD 0338

Interent Resources:

• Earth Day: US Government Portal
• Celebrate Earth Day: US Environmental Protection Agency
• Earth Day 2008: The Wilderness Society
• Envirolink Resource Guide: Earth Day 2008
• History of Earth Day: US Environmental Protection Agency
• Scholastic News: Earth Day

"For several years, it had been troubling me that the state of our environment was simply a non-issue in the politics of the country." - EnviroLink, How the First Earth Day Came About, by Senator Gaylord Nelson