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John Muir Environmental Education Resources

"When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe."

-- John Muir, 1838-1914

The John Muir Day Study Guide was prepared to help teachers commemorate John Muir Day each April 21 with their classes. People all over the world celebrate John Muir's Birthday on April 21! In addition, the guide is produced with the idea that it may be used throughout the school year, integrated with a variety of curriculum topics, to set a tone of caring about our environment. It can be used outside of California as well as within, since only the fourth grade unit is California-specific. We suggest you use the Sixth Grade John Muir Geography Cards and the Places Important to John Muir page to find out if Muir ever traveled in your state or country, and then you can create a lesson plan for your own geographic location.

Each chapter of the John Muir Day Study Guide is available for downloading in Adobe Acrobat file format (necessary for graphic-intensive pages) from the main John Muir website: http://www.sierraclub.org/john_muir_exhibit, which also includes many other Muir resources for teachers.

The entire K-12 Study Guide is attached here in PDF for your convenience as well as Muir's chronology and biography.

John Muir Study Guide (PDF format)

Chronology of the Life and Legacy of John Muir (MS-Word format)

John Muir Biography (MS-Word Format)

Note: Links to reports marked 'pdf' require the free Adobe Acrobat Reader.