My Wounded Island

My Wounded Island
Author: Jacques Pasquet
Publisher: Orca Book Publishers
Total Pages: 19
Release: 2017-08-29
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1459815661

On the map our island is a speck, a miniscule dot of nothing at all. But it is ours. And when it disappears, where will we go? Will our people disappear when our island does?

My Wounded Island Read-Along

My Wounded Island Read-Along
Author: Jacques Pasquet
Publisher: Orca Book Publishers
Total Pages: 18
Release: 2017-09-01
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1459817753

There's an invisible creature in the waves around Sarichef. It is altering the lives of the Iñupiat people who call the island home. A young girl and her family are forced to move to the center of the island for refuge from the rising sea level. Soon the entire village will have to relocate to the mainland. Heartbroken, the young girl and her grandfather worry: what else will be lost when they are forced to abandon their homes and their community? Addressing the topic of climate refugees, My Wounded Island is based on the challenges faced by the Iñupiat people who live on the small islands north of the Bering Strait near the Arctic Circle.

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In this heartbreakingly tender picture book, a young girl and her family become climate refugees as the small island they call home is slowly engulfed by rising sea levels. This edition combines both written and spoken words.

Teaching Climate Change

Teaching Climate Change
Author: Mark Windschitl
Publisher: Harvard Education Press
Total Pages: 285
Release: 2023-08-29
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1682538354

A practical guide to cultivating expansive understandings of climate change and environmental regeneration in K–12 students through classroom instructional practices and curricula. Teaching Climate Change lays out a comprehensive, NGSS-aligned approach to climate change education that builds in-depth knowledge of the subject, empowers students, and promotes a social justice mindset. In this fortifying and inspiring work, Mark Windschitl guides classroom teachers and educational leaders through an ambitious multilevel, multidisciplinary framing of climate change education as an integral element of school curricula. Exuding hope for the future, Windschitl emphasizes the big picture of research-informed teaching about climate change. He presents real-life classroom examples that illustrate not only key STEM concepts such as carbon cycles and the greenhouse effect, biodiversity, and sustainability, but also broader issues, including the countering of misinformation, decarbonizing solutions, the centering of human stories, and the advancement of equity and environmental justice. Windschitl offers keen advice for using methods such as storytelling, project-based learning, and models of inquiry backed by authoritative evidence as core strategies in science teaching and learning. He also addresses the social-emotional toll that discussion of the climate crisis may exact on both students and teachers. This timely book equips teachers to approach climate education with the urgency and empathy that the topic requires and shows how the classroom can inspire students to activism.

My Cocaine Museum

My Cocaine Museum
Author: Michael Taussig
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 360
Release: 2009-12-19
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0226790150

In this book, a make-believe cocaine museum becomes a vantage point from which to assess the lives of Afro-Colombian gold miners drawn into the dangerous world of cocaine production in the rain forest of Colombia's Pacific Coast. Although modeled on the famous Gold Museum in Colombia's central bank, the Banco de la República, Taussig's museum is also a parody aimed at the museum's failure to acknowledge the African slaves who mined the country's wealth for almost four hundred years. Combining natural history with political history in a filmic, montage style, Taussig deploys the show-and-tell modality of a museum to engage with the inner life of heat, rain, stone, and swamp, no less than with the life of gold and cocaine. This effort to find a poetry of words becoming things is brought to a head by the explosive qualities of those sublime fetishes of evil beauty, gold and cocaine. At its core, Taussig's museum is about the lure of forbidden things, charged substances that transgress moral codes, the distinctions we use to make sense of the world, and above all the conventional way we write stories.

From Wounded Woman to Glowing Goddess

From Wounded Woman to Glowing Goddess
Author: Vanessa Soriano PhD
Publisher: Balboa Press
Total Pages: 153
Release: 2024-05-05
Genre: Self-Help
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Most of us have wounds that shape our beliefs and behavior. Whether from cultural conditioning, heartbreak, or trauma, we develop ways of being that contribute to our pain and suffering. At times, we get lost in unhealthy patterns. we forget that there is always a divine, healthy self within that offers us wisdom, clarity and love. From Wounded Woman to Glowing Goddess: There and Back Again is a book designed to help you remember this sacred self. Using research, personal stories, and spiritual philosophies, Vanessa Soriano, PhD, uncovers her journey with the wounded and soul self. She presents insights and practices to help you reclaim your beautiful inner light (which is always there even on the hard days).