These texts would be great grouped together as a microunit or as supplementary texts for a book with a similar theme. This is also a great opportunity to bring in local resources for environmental issues that impact your community. In Houston, I used texts like the impact of the border wall on Texas wildlife, local fires and factory explosions, flooding, and hurricanse.

Nonfiction and Current Events
"Environmental Racism: It's a Thing" from For The Movement (podcast)
"Peril and Promise: Thirty Years After Exxon Valdez" from NPR

Poetry
"Letter to Noah's Wife" by Maya C. Pope
"Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Glacier (after Wallace Stevens)" by Craig Santos Perez
"As If Hearing Heavy Furniture Moved on the Floor Above Us" by Jane Hirshfield
"Letter to Someone Living Fifty Years from Now" by Matthew Olzmann
"Why Whales Are Back in New York City" by Rajiv Mohabir


Fiction
"The Sound Machine" by Roald Dahl
"Time capsule found on the dead planet" by Margaret Atwood


Short Films
"Dream"

Images and Quickwrite Prompts
13 Powerful Environmental Murals