Changing the Land
We have all seen the news and have experienced changes in our own environment. We as a culture are changing the landscape so fast Mother Nature can not keep up. With these changes come devastating effects, excess pollutants and silt in watersheds that would normally be filtered by vegetation and are worsened by natural disasters. Students can examine this topic further by using Project WILD’s activity “Changing the Land”.
The earth is ever changing, our impacts are far reaching, but with a conscious effort these effects can be slowed and possibly reversed. Students can see that one person; one small change can make a huge difference.
Book List
Grades PreK-2
Bauer, D. 2003. People Change the Land. Coughlan Publishing.
Rutten, J. 1998. Erosion. Child's World, Incorporated.
Wheeler, J.C. 1993. Branch out: A Book about Land. ABDO Publishing Company.
Grades 3-5
Dalgleish, S. 2002. Managing the Land. Chelsea House Publishers.
Deboo, A. 2006. Mapping the Land and Environment. Heinemann.
James, B. 1993. Use of Land. Cengage Learning.
Olien, R. 2001. Erosion. Capstone Press.
Winner, C. 1999. Erosion. Lerner Publishing Group.
Grades 6-8
Bailey, J. 2006. Cracking up: A Story about Erosion. Coughlan Publishing.
Downs, S. 2000. Shaping the Earth: Erosion. Lerner Publishing Group.
Fodor, R.V. 1983. Chiseling the Earth: How Erosion Shapes the Land. Enslow Publishers, Incorporated.
Kallen, S. 2005. Managing America's Forests. Greenhaven Press.
Koontz, R.M. 2006. Erosion: Changing the Earth's Surface. Coughlan Publishing.
Leopold, A. 1989. A Sand County Almanac. Oxford University Press
Petersen, C. 2004. Land Preservation. Scholastic Library Publishing.
Rybolt, T.R. 1993. Environmental Experiments about Land. Enslow Publishers, Incorporated.
Stille, D. 2004. Erosion: How Land Forms How It Changes. Compass Point Books.
Willis, T. 1992. Land Use and Abuse. Scholastic.
Grades 9-12
Camp, W.G. 2000. Managing Our Natural Resources. Thomson Delmar Learning.
Cronon, W. 2003. Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonist and the Ecology of New England. Hill and Wang.
Goldsmith, Z., Pearce, F. 2007. Earth Then and Now: Amazing Images of our Changing World. Firefly Books, Limited.
Janice, R. 2006. Land Abuse and Soil Erosion. Wiegel Publishers.
Nardi, J.B. 2005. World beneath Our Feet: A Guide to Life in the Soil. Oxford University Press.
Prior, J.C. and L.A. Stone. 2000. Iowa - Portrait of the Land. Iowa Department of Natural Resources, Geological Survey.
Schwartz, M. 1993. Environment and the Law. Chelsea House Publishers.
Stille, D. 2004. Erosion: How Land Forms How It Changes. Compass Point Books.
