Author: Emily Wakild<br />File Type: pdf<br />A Primer for Teaching Environmental History is a guide for college and high school teachers who are teaching environmental history for the first time, for experienced teachers who want to reinvigorate their courses, for those who are training future teachers to prepare their own syllabi, and for teachers who want to incorporate environmental history into their world history courses. Emily Wakild and Michelle K. Berry offer design principles for creating syllabi that will help students navigate a wide range of topics, from food, environmental justice, and natural resources to animal-human relations, senses of place, and climate change. In their discussions of learning objectives, assessment, project-based learning, using technology, and syllabus design, Wakild and Berry draw readers into the process of strategically designing courses on environmental history that will challenge students to think critically about one of the most urgent topics of study in the twenty-first century.**ReviewEmily Wakild and Michelle K. Berry challenge us to transform the environmental history classroom, suggesting we abandon the typical periodization or thematic issues that organize our syllabi. In their stead, they outline a more organic approach that unlocks the tangled pasts and contemporary interconnections of the foods, places, animals, and technologies students encounter daily. This provocative primer compels us to forsake rigid structure in favor of flexibility and innovation grounded in a deep reading of the literature.--Kathleen A. Brosnan, author of Uniting Mountain and Plain Cities, Law, and Environmental Change along the Front Range This friendly book invites teachers to reflect on the wide and diverse natural world, on the joys of the classroom, and on the fascinations of past. Imagine Rachel Carson and bell hooks discussing The Historians Craft by Marc Bloch. Add to that practical tips for designing syllabi and classroom exercises. Teachers of environmental history will be enriched by reading and re-reading Emily Wakilds and Michelle K. Berrys primer.--Nancy J. Jacobs, author of Birders of Africa History of a Network ReviewEmily Wakild and Michelle K. Berry challenge us to transform the environmental history classroom, suggesting we abandon the typical periodization or thematic issues that organize our syllabi. In their stead, they outline a more organic approach that unlocks the tangled pasts and contemporary interconnections of the foods, places, animals, and technologies students encounter daily. This provocative primer compels us to forsake rigid structure in favor of flexibility and innovation grounded in a deep reading of the literature.(Kathleen A. Brosnan, author of Uniting Mountain and Plain Cities, Law, and Environmental Change along the Front Range) This friendly book invites teachers to reflect on the wide and diverse natural world, the joys of the classroom, andthe fascinations of the past. Imagine Rachel Carson and bell hooks discussing The Historians Craft by Marc Bloch. Add to that practical tips for designing syllabi and classroom exercises. Teachers of environmental history will be enriched by reading and rereading Emily Wakildand Michelle K. Berrys primer. (Nancy J. Jacobs, author of Birders of Africa History of a Network)