My Rationale

To be quite honest, I choose to read The World Without Us because it seemed more interesting than the other option.  I really wasn't excited about reading it until I got through the first chapter.  I have always had a love for Environmental Sciences, and the way Weisman portrayed a picture of a Puszcza was amazing.  Each chapter had me hooked more than the last.  What I liked most about the book was how easily I was able to pull out topics that could be found in a Biology, Chemistry, Earth Science, Environmental, even History class.    Erosion, urban runoff, evolution, killer lakes, extinction, pollution, fertilizers, insecticides, plastics, landfill management... the list goes on and on.  My reason for creating a blog is to gather resources and ideas for using this incredible book in the classroom.  I aspire to teach Environmental classes someday and think this could be a great addition to the environmental curriculum in my class someday.  While I do believe that this book could be used across the core subjects in a cross curricular unit, I will be focusing on the environmental topics.