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Lesson Plans

  • War and the Natural World: Through a documentary and an interview, filmmakers Alice and Lincoln Day discuss the unintended damage that warfare inflicts on the environment, raising questions about how we can address this concern and mitigate or prevent such damage in future conflicts.
  • Kingdom Under Glass: Explore the complicated and too often exploitative relationship between man’s empire and nature’s kingdom, focusing in particular on Jay Kirk’s account of the early twentieth-century naturalist Carl Akeley.
  • From Submarines to Suburbs: Selling a Better America, 1939–1959: In her fascinating and ambitious 2006 book, From Submarines to Suburbs: Selling a Better America, 1939–1959, Cynthia Henthorn discusses the subtle and not-so-subtle connections between our kitchens, our concept of the future, our corporations, and World War II.