LEARNING THROUGH PLAY AND ENQUIRY Earth Day Books Earth Dance, Joanne Ryder ISBN 978-0-8050-6231-1 Earth Day Hooray!, Stuart J. Murphy ISBN 0-0439-74908-5 Appendix This Is My Planet: The Kids Guide to Global Warming, Jan Thornhill, ISBN 978-1-897349-07-6 Waters, Edith Newlin Chase ISBN 978-0545-99416-3 The Curious Garden, Peter Brown ISBN 978-0-316-01547-9 Big Earth, Little Me, Thom Wiley ISBN 978-0-545-09225-8 Winston of Churchill: One Bear s Battle Against Global Warming, Jean Davies Okimoto ISBN 978-157061-543-6 It s About Time 1
Yuck! Waste! Taking Care of Your Planet!, Nuria and Empar Jimenez ISBN 978-0-7641-4546-9 It s Earth Day!, Mercer Mayer ISBN 978-0-545-33869-1 Recycle Every Day!, Nancy Elizabeth Wallace ISBN 0-439-63608-6 10 Things I Can Do To Help My World, Melanie Walsh ISBN 978-0-7636-4144-3 Come On, Rain!, Karen Hesse ISBN 0-590-33126-4 The Giving Tree, Shel Silverstein ISSBN 0-590-39621-8 The Tree, Dana Lyons ISBN 0-439-44925-1 Sally Ride Science: Clean Air, Andrew Bridges ISBN 978-0-545-28362-5 Why Should I Recycle?, Jen Green ISBN 0-439-86640-5 Sally Ride Science: Clean Water, Beth Geiger ISBN 978-0-545-28364-9 Fancy Nancy: Every Day Is Earth Day, Jane O Connor ISBN 978-0-06-187326-3 Big Bear Hug, Nicholas Oldland ISBN 978-1-55453-482-1 A Grand Old Tree, Mary Newell DePalma ISBN 043962334-0 The Great Paper Caper, Oliver Jeffers ISBN 978-0-00-718233-6 It s About Time 2
Beaver Books Beaver at Long Pond, William T. George and Lindsay Barrett George ISBN 0688-07106-6 Beavers, Aaron Frisch ISBN 1-58340-030-3 The Beaver, ISBN 1-85103-211-8 Meet The Beaver, Suzanne Buckingham ISBN 978-1-4042-4502-0 Beavers, Deborah Hodge ISBN 1-55074-429-1 The Beaver Life Cycles, Sabrina Crewe ISBN 0-8172-4249X Turtle s Race With Beaver, Joseph Bruchac and James Bruchac ISBN 0-14-2404667 Beaver Pond Moose Pond, Jim Arnosky ISBN 07922-7692-2 Oil Spill Books Prince William, Glona Rand ISBN 0-8050-1841-7 Sea Otter Rescue The Aftermath of an Oil Spill, Roland Smith ISBN 0-525-65041-5 Oil Spill, Melvin Berger ISBN 0-06-445121-6 It s About Time 3
Ocean / Water Animal Books Betta:Your Happy Healthy Pet, John H.Tullock ISBN 0-471-79380-9 Quick & Easy Betta Care ISBN 0-7938-1040-x One Tiny Turtle, Nicola Davies ISBN 978-0763615499 Commotion in the Ocean, Giles Andreae and David Wojtowycz ISBN 0-439-08214-5 Fabulous Fish, Julie Haydon ISBN 0-17-010446-X Octopus, Melvin and Gilda Berger ISBN 0-439-47391-8 Whales, Sally Morgan ISBN 9-78-159566-324-5 Magazines Chirp: The Fish Issue, May 2002 magazine National Geographic Kids Magazine Plant Books From Seed to Sunflower, Gerald Legg ISBN 978-0531153345 The Tiny Seed, Eric Carle ISBN 9781416-979173 From Seed to Plant, Gail Gibbons ISBN 978-0-8234-1025-5 Felix and the Dandilion, Judith Steinbacher and Antonia Nork It s About Time 4
ISBN 0-9531830-4-1 From Seed to Dandelion, Ellen Weiss ISBN 978-0531187920 Dandelion Adventures, Patricia Kite ISBN 978-0761303770 Dandelions Stars in the Grass, Mia Posada ISBN 978-0439273084 Lettuce Grows on the Ground, Mari Schuh ISBN 978-1-4296-6857-6 Animals in the Garden, Mari Schuh ISBN 978-1-4296-6306-9 Tomatoes Grow on a Vine, Mari Schuh ISBN 978-1-4296-6858-3 Carrots Grow Underground, Mari Schuh ISBN 978-1-4296-6856-9 Growing a Garden, Mari Schuh ISBN 978-1-4296-6307-6 Tools for the Garden, Mari Schuh ISBN 978-1-4296-6308-3 All Kinds of Gardens, Mari Schuh ISBN 978-1-4296-6305-2 Professional Reading A Place for Wonder: Reading and Writing Nonfiction in the Primary Grades, Georgia Heard and Jennifer McDonough ISBN 978-1-57110-432-8 Inquiring Minds Learn to Read and Write, Jeffery D. Wilhelm, Peggy Jo Wilhelm, and Erika Boas Thinking It Through, ETFO, 2010 It s About Time 5
Articles Sociodramatic play as opportunity for literacy development: The teacher s role, Ofra Korat, Etti Bahar, Miriam Snapir It s Child s Play, Corinne Scarfo and Joan Littleford Intentional Teaching in a Play-based Environment, Ministry of Education, 2009 Literacy Place for the Early Years Hair Heads, Jan Cole What Am I?, Fiona Bayrock Zoo Books Life-Size Zoo: From Tiny Rodents to Gigantic Elephants, an Actual Size Animal Encyclopaedia, Toyofumi Fukuda ISBN 978-1934734209 Zoo, Gail Gibbons ISBN 978-0064460965 A Kid s Guide to Zoo Animals, Michelle Gilders ISBN 978-0889953017 I Want To Be A Zookeeper, Dan Liebman ISBN 978-1552976975 Zoo Animals (Baby Genius), DK Publishing ISBN 978-0756602710 Zoo Borns! Zoo babies from around the world, Andrew Bleiman and Chris Eastland ISBN 978-1-4424-1272-9 AlphaTales: Zack the Lazy Zebra, Wendy Cheyette Lewison ISBN 0-439-16549-0 It s About Time 6
Worm Books Wonderful Worms, Linda Glaser ISBN 978-1-56294-730-9 An Earthworm s Life, John Himmelman ISBN 0-516-26535-0 Compost Stew: An A to Z Recipe for the Earth, Mary McKenna Siddals ISBN 978-1-58246-316-2 Reuse, Reduce, Recycle Books The Three R`s: Reuse, Reduce, Recycle, Nuria Roca ISBN 978-0-7641-3581-1 Recycle, by Gail Gibbons ISBN 0-316-30943-5 Something from Nothing, Phoebe Gilman ISBN 978-0590745574 Little Green Books The Adventures of an Aluminum Can, a story about recycling, Alison Inches ISBN 978-1-4169-972211 I Can Save the Earth! Little Green Books (log onto SimonLittleGreen.com) The Adventures of a Plastic Bottle, A Story About Recycling, Alison Inches ISBN 978-1-4169-6788-0 Don`t Throw that Away!, Lara Bergen ISBN 978-1416-975175 Where Does the Garbage?,Paul Showers ISBN 978-0-06-445114-7 Other Resources Sid the Science Kid DVD Going, Going Green! Storybooks about the Earth, pbskids.org/sid. It s About Time 7