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Tales with Tails Storytelling the Wonders of the Natural World
Kevin Strauss
Book Code: LU2695
ISBN: 1-59158-269-5
ISBN-13: 978-1-59158-269-4
248 pages, illustrations; photo
Libraries Unlimited
Publication: 4/30/2006
List Price: $35.00 (UK Sterling Price: £19.95)
Availability: In Stock
Media Type: Paperback
Trim Size: 8 1/2 x 11
Subjects: Awards:
  • Storytelling World Award 2008 Winner
Reviews:
  • A well-organized guide for librarians, educators, and storytellers who wish to combine science and story. Strauss makes the case for the integration of the two fields, explaining that students need not only to know about the natural world, but also to care about it. He maintains that stories that incorporate environmental elements help make this connection.
    —School Library Journal     October 2006
Description: Use the power of story to teach children about our natural environment. This collection of tales from around the world helps you convey key scientific concepts, such as adaptations, habitat, biodiversity, and interdependence; and to instill in children such values as conservation, cooperation, sustainability, and empathy, encouraging them to become responsible stewards of the earth. The book presents more than 60 ready-to-tell stories about wolves, foxes, squirrels, birds, insects, the wind, and more; plus dozens of extension activities to use with the stories, or as part of educational programs focused on plants, animals, and the environment. Thorough instructions for the novice storyteller are included, as are background on and guidelines for teaching ecological concepts. You'll even learn how to create your own stories using environmental concepts, values, proverbs, and quotes. In addition, the book includes an extensive bibliography of stories to use in teaching about the natural world. Whether used in environmental programs in the library or in after-school programs; to enhance science units; in nature centers, zoos, or camps; or as a storyteller's resource for Arbor Day and Earth day celebrations; this is a valuable guide for librarians, teachers, storytellers, and other educators. Activities are coded for grade levels, with an emphasis on elementary and middle school; but most are adaptable to other levels.
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • Story List
  • Nature and Stories
  • Using Stories to Teach About the Nature World
  • Crash Course In Environmental Education
  • A Crash Course in Storytelling
  • Adapting/Creating Environmental Stories
  • Advances Environmental Storytelling Techniques
  • Environmental Stories
  • Animal Stories: Large Mammals
  • Animal Stories: Small Mammals
  • Animal Stories: Birds
  • Animal Stories: Reptiles, Amphibians
  • Animal Stories: Insects
  • Plant Stories: Trees, Lichens, Fungus and Algae
  • Sky Stories
  • Ecological Lesson Tales
  • Sources and Bibliography
  • Index
LC Card Number: 2006007467
LCC Class: GE77
Dewey Class: 372
PDF Catalogs:
LU School Library Spring 2008.pdf
LU Public Library Spring 2008.pdf
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