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Teaching Resources
Teachers and professors, check out these ideas for using Grist in the classroom:
- Have students subscribe to one of Grist's news emails, to keep up with the latest environmental goings-on. Grist is a great way to connect the dots between the science, history, or theory you teach and the current events that bring it all to life. And not a bad way to jumpstart classroom discussions either.
- Encourage your students to hone their critical-thinking and writing skills by joining the discussion and commenting on articles (after registering for an account).
- Point students to Grist's job board to find green job ads.
- Assign students to critically analyze a feature story in Grist -- see how we measure up.
- Add Grist to your syllabus and website. There's a wealth of green information in our archives. (We dare you to find a better way to track environmental news developments over time.)
- Encourage students to send a question to Umbra, Grist's environmental-advice guru.
- Use our special series as an in-depth resource for specific topics
- Bush's Environmental Legacy
- ReGeneration Road Trip
- Greener By Degrees: On college eco-activism
- Voters' Voices
- Smart(ish) Cities: On unexpected urban progress
- The Corps of the Matter: On the Army Corps and the Mississippi River
- Mississippi Keen: Three river cities reimagine their waterfronts, and themselves
- Sow What?: On food and farming
- Brood Awakenings: On parenting and health
- How Green Is Your Candidate?: Interviews and info on the 2008 presidential candidates' environmental positions
- Fill 'Er Up: On biofuels
- How to Talk to a Climate Skeptic
- God & the Environment
- Poverty & the Environment: On the intersection of economic and ecological survival
- Storm Front and Center: The environmental take on Hurricane Katrina
- Don't Fear the Reapers: On the alleged "Death of Environmentalism"
- The Wealth of Nature: A three-part series profiling ecological economists
- A skeptical look at The Skeptical Environmentalist