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Download full textLee, Carol D., Ed.; White, Gregory, Ed.; Dong, Dian, Ed. – National Academy of Education, 2021
This is the executive summary for the report, "Educating for Civic Reasoning and Discourse." This report aims to better prepare students to examine and discuss complex civic, political, and social issues by ensuring that the curriculum, pedagogy, and learning environments that they experience are informed by the best available evidence…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Civics, Political Issues, Social Problems
Peer reviewedRatnapradipa, Dhitinut; Rhodes, Darson L. – Health Educator, 2010
This activity is designed to provide students with an overview of environmental health and to encourage them to think critically about how they can minimize their potential negative health impacts from environmental exposures. Objectives: Students will (a) define environmental health, (b) analyze media wherein environmental health issues are…
Descriptors: Environmental Influences, Prevention, Risk, Critical Thinking
la Riviere, J. W. Maurits – Scientific American, 1989
Discusses the management of the earth's water resources. Describes the global water cycle and the status of water pollution. Recommends that a water-management project should lean toward increasing the efficiency of water consumption rather than toward increasing the supply of water. (YP)
Descriptors: Environmental Influences, Higher Education, Resources, Science and Society
Graedel, Thomas E.; Crutzen, Paul J. – Scientific American, 1989
Discusses air pollution occurring due to human activity. Describes which human activities generate which emissions, including acid rain, smog, ozone depletion, and change of trace gases. Suggests global effort to solve the earth's environmental problems. (YP)
Descriptors: Acid Rain, Air Pollution, Environment, Environmental Influences
Clark, William C. – Scientific American, 1989
Discusses the human use of the planet earth. Describes the global patterns and the regional aspects of change. Four requirements for the cultivation of leadership and institutional competence are suggested. Lists five references for further reading. (YP)
Descriptors: Environment, Environmental Influences, Environmental Research, Global Approach
Schneider, Stephen H. – Scientific American, 1989
Discusses the global change of climate. Presents the trend of climate change with graphs. Describes mathematical climate models including expressions for the interacting components of the ocean-atmosphere system and equations representing the basic physical laws governing their behavior. Provides three possible responses on the change. (YP)
Descriptors: Climate, Climate Control, Environmental Influences, Higher Education
Fortner, Rosanne W., Ed.; Mayer, Victor J., Ed. – 1987
The purpose of this volume is to present a body of basic information about the Great Lakes that is current and based on sound research. Such information is frequently difficult to locate, especially in one reference, and equally difficult to decipher and evaluate. The 16 essays contained in this book deal with a variety of topics including the…
Descriptors: Biological Sciences, College Science, Earth Science, Ecology
