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Naturescope, 1986
Provides descriptions of and activities about various kinds of wetlands. Contains seven learning activities ranging from creating wetland scenes with picture cutouts to actually exploring a wetland. Includes reproducible handouts and worksheets for several of the activities. (TW)
Descriptors: Biology, Ecology, Elementary Education, Elementary School Science
Peer reviewedVan Cleaf, David W. – Social Education, 1985
A child's immediate environment provides an ideal data source for initial mapping experiences. How teachers can help pre-school and primary school children make block maps, picture maps, and drawn maps is discussed. (RM)
Descriptors: Cartography, Data, Data Collection, Data Interpretation
Download full textRay, Dany – 2000
The Water in Africa Project was realized over a 2-year period by a team of Peace Corps volunteers, World Wise Schools (WWS) classroom teachers, and WWS staff members. As part of an expanded, detailed design, resources were collected from over 90 volunteers serving in African countries, photos and stories were prepared, and standards-based learning…
Descriptors: Benchmarking, Curriculum Enrichment, Developing Nations, Foreign Countries
Marsh, Lisa; Snow, Pamela – 2002
In 1870, Boston, Massachusetts, was an overcrowded, noisy, and dirty city. Concerned with the health and happiness of Bostonians restricted to these unhealthy surroundings, the city hired Frederick Law Olmsted to design a park system. The series of parks he designed over the next several years is known as the Emerald Necklace. From lovely…
Descriptors: Curriculum Enrichment, Heritage Education, Historic Sites, Intermediate Grades
Massachusetts State Water Resources Authority, Boston. – 1999
This manual contains background information, lesson ideas, procedures, data collection and reporting forms, suggestions for interpreting results, and extension activities to complement a water quality field testing program. Information on testing water temperature, water pH, dissolved oxygen content, biochemical oxygen demand, nitrates, total…
Descriptors: Bacteria, Environmental Education, Field Studies, High Schools
Harrington, Charles; Lindy, Ingrid – 1998
This study used reflexive photography to examine the perceptions of college freshmen at the University of Southern Indiana. A random sample of 10 first-time, full-time, degree-seeking freshmen completed an initial interview and background questionnaire and were given a 27-exposure disposable camera to take pictures that would illustrate their…
Descriptors: Career Counseling, College Environment, College Freshmen, Cultural Pluralism
Peer reviewedNICHD Early Child Care Research Network – Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 1996
Assessed settings and caregiver-infant interaction in five types of nonmaternal child care: day care centers; child care homes; in-home sitters; grandparents; and fathers. Found that small group sizes, low child-adult ratios, caregivers' nonauthoritarian child-rearing beliefs, and safe, clean, and stimulating physical environments were associated…
Descriptors: Caregiver Attitudes, Caregiver Child Relationship, Child Caregivers, Child Rearing
Khalid, Tahsin – Canadian Journal of Environmental Education, 2001
Identifies and describes misconceptions held by preservice elementary teachers about the greenhouse effect, atmospheric ozone, and acid precipitation. (Contains 28 references.) (DDR)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Environmental Influences, Higher Education, Interdisciplinary Approach
Peer reviewedSchool Libraries in Canada, 2002
Includes 22 articles that address the use of Canadian statistics in the classroom. Highlights include the Statistics Canada Web site; other Web resources; original sources; critical thinking; debating with talented and gifted students; teaching marketing; environmental resources; data management; social issues and values; math instruction; reading…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Critical Thinking, Debate, Elementary Secondary Education
Peer reviewedAquino, Teresa L.; Levine, Elissa R. – Knowledge Quest, 2003
Describes the Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment (GLOBE) program which helps school library media specialists and science and math teachers bring earth science, math, information literacy, information technology, and student inquiry into the classroom. Discusses use of the Internet to create a global network to study the…
Descriptors: Earth Science, Environmental Research, Global Approach, Information Literacy
Peer reviewedWiseman, Gillian – Journal of Youth Services in Libraries, 1994
Examines visions of libraries in 23 science fiction novels aimed at young adult readers. Aspects of librarianship explored include physical environment or building; reference and user services; networking and data transfer; librarians; electronic publishing and material format; and copyright, user fees, and freedom of access to information.…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Adolescent Literature, Computer Networks, Copyrights
Chan, Tak Cheung; Ledbetter, David B. – School Business Affairs, 1998
Uses space problems of a 15-year-old South Carolina middle school to illustrate the importance of a proper facility-design process. Planning principles such as change of space function, flexibility, accommodation of technology, structural quality, adequate supervision, and proper maintenance should be revisited. Time is a good test of design and…
Descriptors: Educational Facilities Design, Educational Facilities Planning, Flexible Facilities, House Plan
Peer reviewedVoice of Youth Advocates, 2001
Describes the transformation of the school library in Lindbergh Middle School, North Long Breach CA that serves a predominantly lower income, multicultural area whose students are struggling readers. Highlights include painting, new furniture, and other physical changes; collection development and circulation increases; hours of operation;…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Economically Disadvantaged, Educational Facilities Improvement, Library Circulation
Peer reviewedGreen, Gaye Leigh – Art Education, 1996
Provides an introduction and overview of installation art. Installation art challenges the accepted notion of passive viewing and comments on concepts concerning art and the environment by creating spatial environments using natural materials. Describes several student installation art projects and the issues raised by this approach. (MJP)
Descriptors: Aesthetic Values, Art Appreciation, Art Criticism, Art Education
Cook, Traci; Blachman, Dara; Dye, Jane; Macartney, Suzanne; Lukacs, Susan; Howie, LaJeana; Kena, Grace; Sonnenberg, William; Axelrad, Daniel; Steffen, Barry; Truman, Jennifer; Cotto, Jessica; Jekielek, Susan; Mueggenborg, Mary; Coleman-Jensen, Alisha; Denton, Stephanie; Avenevoli, Shelli; Singleton, James; Knighton, Cindi; Han, Beth; O'Connell, Kellie; Guenther, Patricia; Hiza, Hazel; Kuczynski, Kevin; Koegel, Kristin; Radel, Laura – Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics, 2011
"America's Children: Key National Indicators of Well-Being, 2011" is a compendium of indicators depicting both the promises and the challenges confronting our Nation's young people. The report, the 15th in an ongoing series, presents 41 key indicators on important aspects of children's lives. These indicators are drawn from the most…
Descriptors: Adoption, Social Indicators, Social Environment, Physical Environment
