Various educational curriculums use the acronym, CARE, standing for complexity, aesthetics, responsibility, and ethics when teaching environmental education activities. Helping children understand that there are many ways that they can participate in making the earth a healthier place to live, by planting a tree seedling, for instance, can have long term consequences. Below find a brief ... continue reading...

One crisp autumn morning, the father of one of my students brought in a box containing branches and leaves. Curled up in the center were three baby squirrels. The dad told us that the mother squirrel had been killed by a car and that he was taking the babies to a wildlife rehabilitation center. The babies, born pink and naked, had some fur on them so he thought they were about a month old. The ... continue reading...