The Lorax ~ a Banned Book

The Lorax was banned in Laytonville, California in 1989 from a local public school. The Lorax was banned because it portrays the foresting industry in an arguable negative way. Some people felt that this book was persuading children to be against logging.

There are many websites, youtube videos, and lesson plan ideas for our theme.  For starters, here is one website:  https://www.plt.org/educator-tips/the-lorax-lesson-plans to help get you going if you need a starting point.

Here is a site not specific to the Lorax movie but resources centered on environment that is worth reviewing: https://www.hctfeducation.ca/lessons-more/ (BC resource)

• Use The Lorax Writing Prompts as a springboard for facilitating a discussion on the topics in The Lorax.
• Make gluppity glup and schloppity schlop and don’t forget the building materials. {from Learn Play Imagine}
• Make your own whisper-ma-phone from Science Sparks plus lots of other ideas that pair well with The Lorax.
• Lemon Lime Adventures has several science ideas for The Lorax. I particularly like the Truffula Tree Cutters engineered with Lego and the planting seeds projects.

Also check out The Lorax Project from Seussville for conservation ideas, games, and activities.

Finally, here is the original movie obtained from Youtube (25 min long).