This publication is an amazing and historical collection of the many great articles, essays, and program profiles that have appeared in Clearing during the past 6 years. Order yours today, and it will be shipped as soon as it comes back from the printer.

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Place-Based Education: Connecting Classrooms and Communities
by David Sobel
from The Orion Society Nature Literacy Series, Number 4
ISBN 0-913098-54-X

PLACE-BASED EDUCATION, Connecting Classrooms and Communities. Sobel. NEW. This comprehensive review of place-based education combines theoretical discussions with real-life examples drawn from a range of classroom settings. Regardless of environment, students thrive when they are connected to their community and attuned to the natural and cultural history of home. To Sobel, “place based education is not simply a way to integrade the curriculum around a study of place, but a means of inspiring stewardship and authentic renewal and revitalization of civic life.”

"After a century of educating young people to be mobile, rootless, and autistic toward their places, better ideas are gaining steam. David Sobel's book is about a revolution in education that is connecting students to their neighborhoods, communities, and ecologies, and equipping them to be homecomers, stewards, citizens, and more. It is about joining heads, hands, hearts, and the places in which we might dwell with competent affection." -David Orr, author of Ecological Literacy and Earth in Mind

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Gardening with Clematis
by Linda Beutler
Timber Press, 2004
ISBN 0-88192-644-2

Your price: $34.95 (signed copy)

Okay, so this isn't really an environmental education book. It's just that the author is closely related to me. So I want to help out where I can. It's a great book if you are at all interested in growing these diverse and spectacular flowers. The book jacket says:

"Clematis are among the more versatile and diverse plants for any garden; few flowers can fill so many garden niches, from specimen plants to dwarf perennials, or container selections to multistory vines. Wherever they are found, their blossoms never fail to induce rapture and awe. Author Linda Beutler has over 250 tpes of clematis in her own garden, and is uniquely suited to address all aspects of clematis planting and care. With sparkling and delightful prose, this book is required reading for all adventurous gardeners."

"I love this book because it's written as if you're having a conversation with your best friend, who just happens to know everything there is to know about clematis." -Valerie Easton, Seattle times, 2004

Into the Field
by Clare Walker Leslie, John Tallmadge, Tom Wessels
Orion's Nature Literacy Series, Number 3
ISBN 0-913098-52-3

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Into the Field provides middle school through undergraduate teachers with curriculum ideas for engaging students in the natural and cultural history of their communities. The activities described can be used by teachers of English, science, history, or art, and can be adapted to one-day trips or year-long projects.

John Tallmadge outlines a process for teaching writing as a means to better seeing and knowing the landscapes of home. Clare Walker Leslie describes how field sketching, with an emphasis on journal-based work, can strengthen relationships with and affinities for the homegrounds. And tom Wessels writes about how to connect students with the ecological and cultural heritage of their home places.

"Getting to know home is the most human and necessary of occupations. to give that power of observation to students, is to give them something of infinite value and importance - something to do for the rest of their lives." -From the introduction by Ann Zwinger