[CALIBK12] Reading list for AP Environmental Science

[Waddle, Victoria]

Shelee,

Here is a list from an AP teacher at our school (Colony High). She had already been thinking about this and had worked on it-it looks really helpful!

Victoria Waddle
Colony High

I know this is VERY extensive, but it's one that I came up with a year ago!  Hope it helps!  Teresa =)

Writings by prominent environmentalists, scientists, and/or historians

Ø     The Wilderness World of John Muir edited by Edwin Way Teale
Ø     Sand County Almanac (Outdoor Essays and Reflections) by Aldo Leopold
Ø     In the Shadow of a Man by Jane Goodall
Ø     Silent Spring by Rachel Carson
Ø     Walden by Henry David Thoreau
Ø     Desert Solitaire by Edward Abbey
Ø     Tree: A Life Story by David Suzuki
Ø     The Explorations of the Colorado River and its Canyons by John Wesley Powell
Ø     The Essential Aldo Leopold: Quotations and Commentaries edited by Curt D. Meine and Richard L. Wright
Ø     The Solace of Open Spaces by Gretel Ehrlich
Ø     The Meadow by James Galvin
Ø     Tales of a Shaman's Apprentice: An Ethnobotanist Searches for New Medicines in the Rain Forest by Mark J. Plotkin
Ø     Uncommon Ground: Rethinking the Human Place in Nature by William Cronon
Ø     Wilderness and the America Mind by Roderick Frazier Nash
Ø     The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of those who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl
Ø     The Ecology of Commerce  by Paul Hawken
Ø     From the Ground Up: Environmental Racism and the Rise of the Environmental Justice Movement by Luke Cole and Shelia Foster
Ø     Dumping in Dixie: Race, Class, and Environmental Quality by Robert D. Bullard
Ø     Plan B 2.0 by Lester R. Brown
Ø     Bayou Farewell: The Rich Life and Tragic Death of Louisiana's Cajun Coast by Mike Tidwell
Ø     Global Crises, Global Solutions by Bjorn Lomborg
Ø     The Skeptical Environmentalist  by Bjorn Lomborg
Ø     Let the Mountains Talk Let the Rivers Run: A Call to Save the Earth by David Brower
Ø     The Ancestor's Tale by Richard Dawkins

Biographies and Autobiographies of prominent environmentalists

Ø     Africa in My Blood: An Autobiography in Letters: The Early Years by Jane Goodall
Ø     The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey by Candice Millard
Ø     Aldo Leopold's Journey: Rediscovering the Author of the Sand County Almanac by Julianne Lutz Newton
Ø     Aldo Leopold: His Life and Work by Curt D. Meine
Ø     My First Summer in the Sierra by John Muir
Ø     John Muir: Nature's Visionary by Gretel Ehrlich
Ø     Rachel Carson: Witness for Nature by Linda Lear
Ø     The Man Who Fed the World: An authorized biography of Norman Borlaug by Leon Hesser

Teresa Lloro-Bidart
Chemistry, Biology, and AP Environmental Science Teacher Roots and Shoots Adviser Colony High School

And an "off the top of my head list" from another science teacher who thought it might e fun to read aloud as well:

Hoot
Ishmael
Survival of the Sickest
Walden
stuff by John Muir
Kids books- Wump World, Lorax, There's a Hair in my Dirt


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Sent: Tuesday, February 03, 2009 4:08 PM
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Subject: [CALIBK12] Reading list for AP Environmental Science

I know that some of you out there will have some great suggestions. Our school will be offering AP Environmental Science next fall and I am working with the teacher on a couple  things. One of those things is a summer reading list. I am looking for some suggestions  that might get the students thinking on a higher level.  The teacher suggested Arctic Dream by Gary Lopez (I had not heard of it). I have to admit I am not well read in this area. If any of you have run across anything that would be applicable I would love to hear from you.

Thank you,

Shelee Wilkerson
South Pasadena High School
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