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Humans and the Natural Environment.
Intercom, 1982
Suggests activities focusing on the relationship between meeting human survival needs and the environment for use with junior high students in geography courses. Students learn about human survival needs, the earth's systems, and the sun's roles as an energy producer. (RM)
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Geography Instruction, Global Approach, Junior High Schools
Perception and the Environment.
Intercom, 1982
Suggests activities to develop junior high students' capacity for perspective consciousness considered a key to an effective study of global issues. For use in geography courses, the activities help students understand why different perspectives exist on an issue and how groups share understandings among their members through communication. (RM)
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Cultural Differences, Geography Instruction, Global Approach
On Your Own
Stillman, Peter R.; Long, Cathryn J. – Intercom, 1976
Considers some environmental changes that would occur from one person living on a virgin piece of land and calls attention to information needed by students from grades 7 through 12 to become involved in a wilderness simulation activity. Homework assignments, discussion questions, follow-up activities and folk art projects are described.…
Descriptors: Activity Units, Class Activities, Environmental Education, Folk Culture
Where in the World.
Intercom, 1982
Presents three lessons which demonstrate to junior high students in geography courses that knowledge of "where things are happening" is essential to an understanding of global issues. Students use the basic tools of geography to examine population distribution, world resources, and the water crisis. (RM)
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Geography Instruction, Global Approach, Junior High Schools
One Class Learns by Doing
Long, Cathryn J. – Intercom, 1976
A field experience environmental program involving urban high school students in farm, city, wilderness, and independent study situations is described. Concludes that experiential programs are beneficial to students, but that they place strain on public school organization, demand inordinate commitment from faculty and are expensive to administer.…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Environmental Education, Environmental Influences, Field Experience Programs
People and Planet Earth: How Humans Have Changed Their World
Branson, Margaret S.; Long, Cathryn J. – Intercom, 1977
Presents classroom activities designed to help students conceptualize the abstractions of change and time on a planetary scale. Students are asked to match drawings with brief descriptions of major changes which humans have effected. (Author/DB)
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Educational Objectives, Elementary Secondary Education, Environmental Education
Moving Toward a Global Perspective: Social Studies and Second Languages.
Bragaw, Donald, Ed.; And Others – Intercom, 1983
Describes eight interdisciplinary lessons for use in second language and social studies courses to educate students for responsible membership in the world community. Goals include decreasing stereotypic and ethnocentric perceptions; increasing the ability to empathize; and developing constructive attitudes towards diversity, change, and conflict.…
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Awareness, Cultural Differences, Cultural Interrelationships