Writing About Nature

CONTENTS OF CURRICULUM UNIT 23.02.04

  1. Unit Guide
  1. Introduction
  2. Rationale
  3. Unit Overview
  4. Background Environment
  5. Content Objectives
  6. Classroom Activities
  7. Teaching Strategies
  8. Picture Books about Nature
  9. Appendix: Implementing District Standards
  10. References
  11. Notes

An Inheritance of Cultural Storytelling: Nature-Inspired Paintings

Debra Jenkins

Published September 2023

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Notes

  1. N. Scott Momaday, Earth Keeper: Reflections on the American Land (New York, and NY: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2020).
  2. Kimberly L. Meidenbauer et al., "The Affective Benefits of Nature Exposure: What's Nature Got to Do with It?," Journal of Environmental Psychology 72 (2020): 101498, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvp.2020.101498.
  3. Rachel Carson, Nick Kelsh, and Linda J. Lear, The Sense of Wonder: A Celebration of Nature for Parents and Children (New York, and NY: Harper Perennial, 2017).
  4. Robert L. Ballard and Sarah J. Ballard, "From Narrative Inheritance to Narrative Momentum: Past, Present, and Future Stories in an International Adoptive Family," Journal of Family Communication 11, no. 2 (2011): 69–84, https://doi.org/10.1080/15267431.2011.554618.
  5. Rachel Carson, Nick Kelsh, and Linda J. Lear, The Sense of Wonder: A Celebration of Nature for Parents and Children (New York, and NY: Harper Perennial, 2017).
  6. Chia-Chen Chang et al., "People's Desire to Be in Nature and How They Experience It Are Partially Heritable," PLOS Biology 20, no. 2 (2022), https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3001500.
  7. Rachel Carson, Nick Kelsh, and Linda J. Lear, The Sense of Wonder: A Celebration of Nature for Parents and Children (New York, and NY: Harper Perennial, 2017).
  8. N. Scott Momaday, Earth Keeper: Reflections on the American Land (New York, and NY: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2020).
  9. Denise E. Agosto, "Why Storytelling Matters: Unveiling the Literacy Benefits of Storytelling," Children and Libraries 14, no. 2 (2016): 21, https://doi.org/10.5860/cal.14n2.21.
  10. Clare Walker Leslie, Charles Edmund Roth, and Clare Walker Leslie, Keeping a Nature Journal: Discover a Whole New Way of Seeing the World around You (Pownal, VT: Storey Publishing, 2003).
  11. Jon Young and Dan Gardoqui, "Chapter 4: The Sit Spot," essay, in What the Robin Knows: How Birds Reveal the Secrets of the Natural World (Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2013), 48–67.
  12. "Texas Administrative Code," Texas administrative code, accessed July 17, 2023, https://texreg.sos.state.tx.us/public/readtac$ext.TacPage?sl=R&app=9&p_dir=&p_rloc=&p_tloc=&p_ploc=&pg=1&p_tac=&ti=19&pt=2&ch=74&rl=4.
  13. "Texas Administrative Code," Texas administrative code, accessed July 17, 2023, https://texreg.sos.state.tx.us/public/readtac$ext.TacPage?sl=R&app=9&p_dir=&p_rloc=&p_tloc=&p_ploc=&pg=1&p_tac=&ti=19&pt=2&ch=74&rl=4.
  14. "Texas Administrative Code," Texas administrative code, accessed July 17, 2023, https://texreg.sos.state.tx.us/public/readtac$ext.TacPage?sl=R&app=9&p_dir=&p_rloc=&p_tloc=&p_ploc=&pg=1&p_tac=&ti=19&pt=2&ch=74&rl=4.

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