Elisabeth Tova Bailey

Primary School

Primary education teachers are reading the book and selecting excerpts to share with their students. They often create terrariums in the classroom and encourage their students to practice their observational skills as they monitor an ecosystem and watch any live inhabitants.
At the Lyceum, a private 5th grade gifted and talented class taught by Meg Shevenock, students read the book themselves, wrote reflective essays on the book’s interdisciplinary and philosophical subjects and also wrote poems from a snail’s perspective. They took a field trip to visit the Carnegie Museum of Natural History and met with malacologist, Tim Pearce.

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TOOLS & RESOURCES FOR TEACHERS

“The Bedside Terrarium (pdf)” An essay by the author which combines well with Wild Snail book chapters 4-6. Classroom discussion questions Wild Snail Table of Contents

Addressing Common Core and NGSS

Wild Snail Education Flyer Wild Snail PowerPoint: Using the Wild Snail book in K-16 (5.5MB)

High School 9th-12 Grade

Ryan Bromwell: Powerpoint (4.3MB) Using the Wild Snail book in biology curricula Ryan Bromwell: Flyer Using the Wild Snail book in high school biology curricula

Middle School 6-8th Grade

Juliana Texley: Powerpoint (2.4MB) Using the Wild Snail book in middle school, curricula ideas Juliana Texley: Investigating Slime Middle school activity

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