This volume serves as an overview document for a six-volume sourcebook collection describing the development of a regional environmental learning system. Included in this volume are: (1) organization of the sourcebook, (2) project description, (3) issues, (4) definitions of environmental education, (5) approaches and strategies for environmental…

The paper provides a rationale for using a decision-making model in teaching environmental issues, outlines specific steps in creating a simulation, and illustrates its use in the classroom. The objectives of environmental education are to provide learning opportunities for students to know, think, choose, and act regarding pervasive social issues…

This field trip guide, designed for use in specific state parks, is also a guide useable in general by teachers who are not outdoor-types. The guide is divided into three sections. The first section includes information for teachers concerning the assembly of a successful field trip package. The second section contains reproducible self-guiding…

This data book is an information source for a specific state park. However, it contains principles of organization useful in other areas. The data book describes the topography and ecology of the field trip site in a first section. A second section covers the cultural history of aboriginal people who inhabited the area before white settlement. (RE)

This summary volume presents the conclusions of a United States' Government effort to look at the issues and interdependencies of population, resources, and environment in the long-term global perspective. The report concludes that, if present trends continue, serious stresses of overcrowding, pollution, ecological instability, and vulnerability…

The mini reviews in this collection synthesize current information regarding three timely topics in outdoor education: utilizing adventure education as a treatment mode for juvenile delinquency; providing outdoor education for the handicapped; and developing outdoor education nature centers. In "Outdoor Adventure Education and Juvenile…

This manual is designed to assist teachers in integrating the theme of the Bicentennial into all subject areas. Most of the activities and materials described in this unit relate to the outdoors. The manual deals with activities under the three categories of interest in the Bicentennial celebration: (1) Heritage USA - the people, places, and…

This guide is intended to be a source of ideas for outdoor learning activities appropriate for youngsters in elementary, middle, and junior high schools. It may also be useful for those who work with children primarily in outdoor settings. Decisions as to which activities are appropriate for particular age levels are left to the teacher. Each…

Reported is a study of sixth-graders' attitudes towards electrical energy. Students in Catawba County, North Carolina schools, which field-tested the Energy for Today and Tomorrow (EFTT) module, completed a 17-item attitude test, the Environmental Opinion Scale. This instrument measured opinions regarding nuclear power, electrical power…

Appropriate technology is an approach to meeting human needs which stresses local solutions using small-scale decentralized technologies that have minimal environmental impact. Presented in this manual are 10 lessons for upper elementary students that consider such topics as recycling, solar energy, transportation, and nutrition. Each lesson…

This module is part of a series on Physical Processes in Terrestrial and Aquatic Ecosystems. The materials were designed to be used by life science students for instruction in the application of physical theory to ecosystem operation. Most modules contain computer programs which are built around a particular application of a physical process.…

The aims of the 1970 Environmental Education Act are examined and the resultant developments of this legislation are reviewed. Detailed are various methods for fulfilling the aims of environmental education. (SB)

Presented are environmental education lessons adapted for use in the second-grade classes of Pinellas County, Florida. Many examples are drawn from local situations. Six conceptual schemes provide the guide's organizational framework: interrelationships, heredity and environment, change, effects of population growth, finite resources, and…

This teacher's guide, one of nine teacher packages developed for use in the sequential, hands-on, field-oriented, K-8 environmental education program of the Martin County Schools in Florida, was developed for use with secondary students in grade seven prior to and after a visit to an environmental studies center located near an estuarine area. The…

This teacher's guide, one of nine teacher packages developed for use in the sequential, hands-on, field-oriented, K-8 environmental education program of the Martin County Schools in Florida, was developed for use with secondary children in grade eight prior to and after a visit to an environmental studies center located near an estuarine area. The…