ESSAY PROMPT: Write about the song or melody that you hear in a body of water such as a stream, river, lake, acequia, ocean, etc.) and what you would answer back.

Click here to access a printable teacher's resources document to share with your students.​

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​Aldo Leopold Biographical Information 

• ​About Aldo Leopold from The Aldo Leopold Foundation
• Aldo Leopold Fact Sheet

Aldo Leopold’s “The Land Ethic” ​

• Read an excerpt from Leopold's 1949 "The Land Ethic"
• The Land Ethic article from The Aldo Leopold Foundation

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Major Watersheds of New Mexico

Students can use this map to find watersheds near where they live.
What would a conversation with that body of water look like?

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Curriculum Resources for Middle School and ELL students

• Watersheds in New Mexico Activity
• Learn about Aldo Leopold Activity

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Dear Body of Water Project
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• The Dear Body of Water project provides writing prompts to get students thinking about their Leopold Writing Contest essay submission.
• Upload Dear Body of Water activities to the interactive map of letters.
• Print out our Leopold Writing Program and Dear Body of Water partnership activities.
• Teachers can request Dear Body of Water postcards directly from the Poetry Center here.

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​Voices Beyond Leopold: Other Writers on the Relationship Between Humans and the Land

These essays by diverse writers can help get students thinking about environmental writing and their Leopold Writing Contest essay submissions.

• Camille T. Dungy: “Is All Writing Environmental Writing?”
• Lauret E. Savoy: “To See the Whole: A Future of Environmental Writing”
• Natalie Diaz: "The First Water is the Body"
• Joy Harjo: "Praise the Rain"
• Ofelia Zepeda: "It is Going to Rain"
• Jourdan Imani Keith: "Desegregating Wilderness"
• Robin Wall Kimmerer: "Nature Needs a New Pronoun..."​​​

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​Wild Friends Program

Are you interested in engaging your students in water advocacy? There will be water related bills at this year's legislative session. Learn how to get your students involved in this advocacy work at www.wildfriends.unm.edu.