On teaching Plant a Pocket of Prairie

Review of the Phyllis Root/Betsy Bowen book in NC Teacher Stuff.

root_plant coverYou can certainly use this book for teaching about ecosystems and the interdependence of all living things. Students would be encouraged to garden after reading so you can find or create a flower bed and observe this relationship up close. I think Plant a Pocket of Prairie would be a great nonfiction text for teaching the skill of cause and effect. Learning how one thing can lead to another will be made easier by the numerous examples in the text. Think of it as a nonfiction fiction equivalent of If You Give a Mouse a Cookie. One more possibility is using this book to jump start your students' desire to learn about their own native plants and animals.

Plant a Pocket of Prairie is an excellent book to showcase the need to take care of our ecosystems and to excite students about planting native plants to create little pieces of what once was a vast area of wildlife.

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Published in: NC Teacher Stuff
By: Jeff Barger