Primary Source Learning: Conservation & Environment

Library lessons

• Conservation Movement at a Crossroads: The Hetch Hetchy Controversy
• Explorations in American Environmental History
• Natural Disasters: Nature’s Fury

Collection Connections

• Evolution of the Conservation Movement
• Mapping the National Parks

Conservation & environment lessons from the Citizen U Multidisciplinary Civics Lesson Library

• Carbon Footprints, Climate, and Civic Causes
  Civic Actions to Impact the Future
  Do Our Parks Do What They Are Supposed to Do?
  Environmental Resource Management: Local and Historical Perspectives
  Explorations in American Environmental History: The Photographer, the Artist, and Yellowstone
  How Did Birds Gain Political Protection?
  Map: Poetry & Environmental Justice
  The New England Fishing Industry: Sea Changes in a Community

Guided primary source analysis activities

• How the Sun Spots Control Our Weather
• Kenya 12-69
• Little Rory Borealis
• Microcosm
• A Plan of My Farm
• Shrinking Glaciers

TPS Teachers Network activity album

• Don’t be a Drip – Water Conservation Campaigns

Related resource

• Primary Source Spotlight: Civilian Conservation Corps
• More conservation & environment primary sources