YA Eco Mysteries, Memoirs, Novels & Travel
Teachers for Earth Day
Throughout Alabama inspired and determined environmentalists are finding ways to conserve our precious natural resources. When I began my eco mystery series, The Adventures of The Sizzling Six, I did not fully anticipate the number of dedicated environmentalist I would meet along the way. What an inspiration it has been to see environmental educators like Traci Ingleright, Kay Stone and Kimberely Murray teaching students to appreciate and understand nature. And what a privilege and an education to see biologist and conservationists like Ken Marion, Thane Wibbles, Mark Bailey, John Trent, Eric Soehren, and Eric Spadgenske, Michele Reynolds, Arnold Rutkis and April Waltz Lapidus actively working to save species.
Magellanic Penguins and Seals in The Beagle Channel, Patagonia (Photographer, Boris Datnow)
TO SHOW MY APPRECIATION TO ALL CONSERVATIONS and to inspire a new generation of wise stewards dedicated to the conservation of our precious natural heritage and in honor of Earth Day, I’ve put together a list of scientific stories about natural phenomena that will amaze your students more than any science fiction novel can. You simply cannot make this stuff up. For teachers, I’ve compiled a list of books with environmental themes to arouse your students’ curiosity.
Nature Blows My Mind! Amazing Transparent Animals : TreeHugger
How DIY Science is Solving Ecological Mysteries in New York City
How Enviornmental Clues Can Solve Environmental Mysteries
Books With Environmental Themes:
Middle School Enviornmental Fiction, The Adventures of The Sizzling Six Series
https://mediamint.net/page7/files/Middle%20School%20Environmental%20Fiction.html
| Books that focus on how famous cases were solved scientifically, or tell more about the work of forensic scientists. The classic book |
Green Earth Books: http://www.natgen.org
If you liked The Sign of the Beaver by Elizabeth George Speare, then try:
The Birchbark House by Louise Erdich
The Cabin Faced West by Jean Fritz
Cabin on Trouble Creek by Jean Van Leeuwen
Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell
Jason's Gold by Will Hobbs
Mr. Tucket by Gary Paulsen
My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George
Watership Down
Jonathan Living Seagull
Makoona and Out There Somewhere by John Morano
Where Things Come back by John Corey Whaley
Flipper by Dina Anastasio
The Ancient One by T.A. Barron
Clan Apis by Jay Hasler
The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate by Jacqueline Kelly
An Egrets Day by Jane Yolen
Elise’s Bird by Jane Yolen
Other Links of Interest (free teacher handout-a cross curricula unit: “Writing Eco Mysteries)
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