Author stresses the need and responsibility for social studies curriculum to establish an ecological awareness in students. (GB)

Describes a four-level classification scheme of "environmental insults" which may be used for instructional purposes as a framework for teaching-learning sequences in studying problems of the local environment. (SH)

Twenty suggestions in five conceptual areas -- interdependence, population, pollution, resource utilization, land use -- are offered to teachers incorporating environmental studies into their social studies curricula. (JH)