Just for teachers : web-based lesson plans incorporating Indiana's environmental literature into the middle school classroom : an honors thesis (HONRS 499)

Abstract

This creative project, done in conjunction with the Our Land, Our Literature seminar at the Virginia B. Ball Center for Creative Inquiry, is a web-based resource created to assist middle school teachers (grades six through eight) in incorporating themes and ideas concerning the environment, and more specifically the literature that touches on Indiana's environment, into their curricula. The project includes five-day lesson plans for five authors: Charles Major, Gene Stratton Porter, James Whitcomb Riley, Dorothy Fry Arbuckle, and Oliver Johnson. In addition to these five lesson plans, work done during the seminar is presented, including the Charles Major author entry created during the seminar.