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K 3 Learning pages.com: Earth Day Links
How can you celebrate Earth Day in your classroom? This collection features several downloadable Earth Day worksheets including word searches and coloring pages. Students and teachers can plan the perfect way to recognize the environment.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Rachel Carson Classroom Activity
A lesson plan for teachers which introduces, honors, and commemorates the birthday of the environmentalist Rachel Carson. Provides web links, an annotated bibliography, and other lesson plans on the subject. From May 27, 2007.
Independence Hall Association
U.s. History: Environmental Reform
Environmental awareness in the United States became more focused upon the publication of Rachel Carson's Silent Spring. Read about student protests, presidential legislation, and a new desire to protect the environment.
PBS
Pbs: American Experience: Earth Days: Timeline:the Modern Environmental Movement
Trace the advance of the environmental movement from 1948 through the 1980s. Read about the legislation promoting a healthy environment passed under both Democratic and Republican presidents.
American Geosciences Institute
American Geosciences Institute: Earth Science Week: Conservation in Action
A lesson where students study the legacy of Rachel Carson.
Smithsonian Institution
National Portrait Gallery: American Women: Rachel Carson
See this bust of Rachel Carson, leader of the environmental movement in the 1960s and read a brief description of the impact of her book, "Silent Spring."
Yale University
Biographies for Change in a Time of Conformity
Reading non-fiction and perhaps particularly biography is a skill that must be taught. This unit uses the lives of three icons: Elvis Presley, Malcolm X and Rachel Carson to develop this skills. Extensive bibliography for the teacher,...
BiologyWise
Biology Wise: Famous Marine Biologists and Their Contributions
Read up on the lives and contributions of these scientists if you are considering a career in marine biology.
Other
Rachel Carson Institute: Commemorating Carson
The Rachel Carson Institute provides a brief biography of the esteemed marine biologist and writer, Rachel Carson (1907-1964 CE).
The Best Notes
The Best Notes: Silent Spring by Rachel Carson
This is a complete online study guide/notes for the novel Silent Spring by Rachel Carson including author information, literary elements, chapter-by-chapter summaries/notes, study questions, and analysis.
Danuta Bois
Distinguished Women of Past and Present: Rachel L. Carson
This site provides a brief biography of the American marine biologist and author, Rachel Louise Carson.
Country Studies US
Country Studies: The Counter Culture and Environmentalism
This web-article discusses how the 1960s and 1970s were a time of cultural upheaval in the US. As many young people came to reject the lifestyle and traditions of their parents and embrace a more radical way of living and thinking.
Morning Earth
Morning Earth: Rachel Carson
This concise site features a short biography of Rachel Carson supplemented with photos of this marine biologist and writer.
My Hero Project
My Hero: Rachel Carson
This site explores Rachel Carson's (1907-1964 ) heroic activities in the field of science. Content focuses on her role to save plants, animals, and people from the effects of DDT.
Ducksters
Ducksters: Biography for Kids: Scientist: Rachel Carson
A site that contains Rachel Carson's biography. Learn about how she was a scientist who studied how pesticides impacted animals and the ecosystem. She is considered the founder of environmental science.