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Lessons from the Professional Development Course for Teachers held in Spring 2020

Rachel Carson
Website dedicated to Rachel Carson.
Wikipedia: Rachel Carson
Wikipedia entry for Rachel Carson, with biographical information and the list of her works.
Wikipedia: Silent Spring
Wikipedia entry about Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring.
Rachel Carson
Website curated by Rachel Carson's Alma Mater, Pennsylvania College for Women (now Chatham College).
Rachel Carson: A Conservation Legacy
Commemorative website created in 2007 to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the birth of Rachel Carson.

Rachel Carson: Biography
Biographical information about Rachel Carson.
Rachel Carson
Biographical entry from the Encyclopaedia Britannica.
Rachel Carson Biography
A biography from the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society (RCC) website.

Rachel Carson's Silent Spring Turns 50
By Elizabeth Grossman on The Atlantic.
Rachel Carson: The Role for a Lifetime
Article by Cori Brosnahan.
Rachel Carson's Silent Spring, 50 years on
Article by Margaret Atwood from The Guardian.
The Story of Silent Spring
Page from The Natural Resources Defense Council website.
How ‘Silent Spring’ Ignited the Environmental Movement
Article by Eliza Griswold on The New York Times Magazine (free registration required).
1963: Rachel Carson
Short article from the "100 WOMEN OF THE YEAR" list on Time magazine.

The following study guides include free resources about Rachel Carson's Silent Spring, such as textual analysis, critical essays, and more.

BetterLesson
101 Lesson plans focusing on Rachel Carson.
Study.com
Several Lesson Plans with focus on different disciplines, from English to History, from Science to Humanities (free registration required).
Landmark Lesson Plan: Legacy of Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring
Lesson Plan for grades 9-12 from the American Chemical Society website.
Legacy of Rachel Carson's Silent Spring
Educational resource from the American Chemical Society website.

Meet Rachel Carson in this short video
Downloadable video about Rachel Carson (.wmv format).

Rachel Carson: Trailer
Short trailer from a documentary about Rachel Carson.
DDT, Malaria, and the Book That Changed Environmental Debate
A Retro Report documentary in partnership with American Experience.
Rachel L. Carson (1907–1964)
Information on filmography about Rachel Carson from IMDb.

The Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society (RCC)
An international, interdisciplinary center for research and education in the environmental humanities and social sciences.
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A nonprofit institution, the RCC was founded in 2009 as a joint initiative of Munich's Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität and the Deutsches Museum, with the generous support of the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research.