Place-Based Education: Connecting Classrooms & Communities

Place-Based Education: Connecting Classrooms & Communities similar books

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  Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder

  "I like to play indoors better 'cause that's where all the electrical outlets are," reports a fourth-grader. Never before in history have children been so plugged in―and so out of touch with the natur…

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  There's No Such Thing as Bad Weather: A Scandinavian Mom's Secrets for Raising Healthy, Resilient, and Confident Kids (from Friluftsliv to Hygge)

  “A perfect antidote to the hyper-vigilant, extra-electrified, standardized-tested, house-arrested, 21st-century childhood.” —Richard Louv, bestselling author of Last Child in the Woods and Vitamin N
  
  Br…

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  There There

  Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780525520375.
  
  Tommy Orange's wondrous and shattering novel follows twelve characters from Native communities: all traveling to the Big Oakland Powwow, all connected to …

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  Scarborough

  City of Toronto Book Award finalist Scarborough is a low-income, culturally diverse neighborhood east of Toronto, the fourth largest city in North America; like many inner city communities, it suffers…

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  The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World

  From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Braiding Sweetgrass, a bold and inspiring vision for how to orient our lives around gratitude, reciprocity, and community, based on the lessons of the…

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  If You Only Knew: Letters From an Immigrant Teacher

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  Curriculum 21: Essential Education for a Changing World

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  A Psalm for the Wild-Built (Monk & Robot, #1)

  ASIN B08H831J18 moved to the more recent edition
  
  Centuries before, robots of Panga gained self-awareness, laid down their tools, wandered, en masse into the wilderness, never to be seen again. They fad…

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  Balanced and Barefoot: How Unrestricted Outdoor Play Makes for Strong, Confident, and Capable Children

  In this important book, a pediatric occupational therapist and founder of TimberNook shows how outdoor play and unstructured freedom of movement are vital for children’s cognitive development and grow…

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  Betty

  A stunning, lyrical novel set in the rolling foothills of the Appalachians in which a young girl discovers stark truths that will haunt her for the rest of her life.
  
  "A girl comes of age against the k…

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  Let the Children Play: How More Play Will Save Our Schools and Help Children Thrive

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  The Open-Air Life: Discover the Nordic Art of Friluftsliv and Embrace Nature Every Day

  A complete guide to Friluftsliv, the Nordic secret to unplugging and connecting more deeply with nature.
  
  In The Open-Air Life, Swedish-American writer Linda McGurk introduces readers to a wide array of…

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  Mentoring Teachers: Navigating the Real-World Tensions

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  Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants

  As a botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer has been trained to ask questions of nature with the tools of science. As a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, she embraces the notion that plants and animals …

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  Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life

  An edition celebrating the 10th anniversary of Barbara Kingsolver's New York Times bestseller, which describes her family's adventure as they move to a farm in southern Appalachia and realign their li…

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  The Witch's Heart

  When a banished witch falls in love with the legendary trickster Loki, she risks the wrath of the gods in this moving, subversive debut novel that reimagines Norse mythology.
  
  Angrboda's story begins w…

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  The Field Guide to Citizen Science: How You Can Contribute to Scientific Research and Make a Difference

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  Ban This Book

  -Readers, librarians, and all those books that have drawn a challenge have a brand new hero.... Stand up and cheer, book lovers. This one's for you.- --Kathi Appelt, author of the Newbery Honor-winnin…

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  The Fourth Turning: An American Prophecy—What the Cycles of History Tell Us About America's Next Rendezvous with Destiny

  NATIONAL BESTSELLER.
  
  Discover the game-changing theory of the cycles of history and what past generations can teach us about living through times of upheaval—with deep insights into the roles that Boo…

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  McGlue

  Selected for the inaugural Fence Modern Prize in Prose by Rivka Galchen.
  
  Salem, Massachusetts, 1851: McGlue is in the hold, still too drunk to be sure of name or situation or orientation—he may have ki…

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