Coming of Age in the Milky Way
by Timothy Ferris(2003, Harper Perennial)
ISBN Number: 978-0060535957
Favorite Books
The following books and supporting resources have been used in K-12 teacher professional development workshops and classroom settings. Each book has a list of questions that can be used for student assignments, class discussions, or exercises such as a Gallery Walk (visit the Gallery Walk Web site to learn more about this pedagogical approach).
Some of the books have supporting Google Earth files that geolocate the book content. Download the free software Google Earth to open the file and explore: http://earth.google.com/
You are encouraged to use and modify what is provided here. Please contact us with any additional books and/or supporting materials to share on this page with the PAESTA membership.
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by Timothy Ferris(2003, Harper Perennial)
ISBN Number: 978-0060535957
Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations
by David Montgomery(2008, University of California Press)
ISBN Number: 978-0520248700
Earth: The Operators’ Manual
by Richard Alley(2011, W.W. Norton & Company)
ISBN Number: 978-0393081091
Energy & Society: An Introduction
by Harold H. Schobert(2002, Taylor & Francis)
ISBN Number: 978-1560327677
Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change
by Elizabeth Kolbert(2006, Bloomsbury USA)
ISBN Number: 978-1596911307
Harvest for Hope: A Guide to Mindful Eating
by Jane Goodall, Gary McAvoy, Gail Hudson(2005, Grand Central Publishing)
ISBN Number: 9780759514867
How I Killed Pluto and Why It Had It Coming
by Mike Brown(2010, Spiegel & Grau)
ISBN Number: 978-0385531085
In Suspect Terrain
by John McPhee(1984, Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
ISBN Number: 978-0374517946
Origins: Fourteen Billion Years of Cosmic Evolution
by Neil DeGrasse Tyson and Donald Goldsmith(2004, W.W. Norton)
ISBN Number: 978-0393327588
Plows, Plagues, and Petroleum: How Humans Took Control of Climate
by William F. Ruddiman(2010, Princeton University Press)
ISBN Number: 978-1400834730
Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet
by Mark Lynas(2008, National Geographic)
ISBN Number: 978-1426202131
The Big Thirst - The Secret Life and Turbulent Future of Water
by Charles Fishman(2011, Free Press)
ISBN Number: 978-1-4391-0207-7
The Control of Nature
by John McPhee.(1990, Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
ISBN Number: 978-0374522599
The Map That Changed The World: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology
by Simon Winchester(2009, Harper Perennial)
ISBN Number: 978-0061767906
Warnings: The True Story of How Science Tamed the Weather
by Mike Smith(2010, Greenleaf Book Group Press)
ISBN Number: 978-1608320349
Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body
by Neil Shubin(2009, Vintage)
ISBN Number: 978-0307277459
