Audiobooks: Mystery, Suspense, Feelings, Magic, and Some Spooks
Here is a selection of audiobooks from Tales2Go for this Halloween season. They’re not all about pumpkins and ghosts. There are stories about how a first sleepover or trying something new can be scary, mysteries, and traditional Halloween stories.
Click here for a spreadsheet of stories and links—there are separate tabs for each grade span.
Or, share this QR code with teachers; but, please explore before you share with students.
Debate Research
When you find full-text articles, academic articles, government documents, or videos in AEA Scout, you can share the links with students (students need to be logged in to AEA Scout) or add to Google Drive / Classroom or OneDrive.
Here’s the 2021-22 NFHS debate topic: Water Resources. Resolved: The United States federal government should substantially increase its protection of water resources in the United States.
One argument might be focused on ecosystem restoration. The UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration runs through 2030. It directs efforts toward regrowing forests, making over exploited farmland, reviving damaged marine environments, and more.
With one search, here’s some background information...
- The time for ecosystem restoration is now. Collaboration is imperative.
- U.N. declares decade of ecosystem restoration to ‘make peace with nature’.
- As a decade of ecosystem restoration kicks off, don’t forget the people.
- The political ecology playbook for ecosystem restoration: Principles for effective, equitable, and transformative landscapes.
- A beginner’s guide to ecosystem restoration.
- Executive Order 13554—Establishing the Gulf Coast Restoration Task Force.
- Task force established by President Obama releases final strategy for reversing deterioration of Gulf ecosystem.
- Recovery in the Elwha River ecosystem / H2O: the molecule that made us.
