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Recommended grade level: 7-8+.
Environmental Issues: Intermediate is a teacher's guide with directions for 17 lessons and/or activities that help students explore topics such as environmental awareness, solid waste management, air and water pollution, land use, and the effects that people's everyday actions can have on the environment. Among the activities, for example, students conduct a survey (and tally the results) of people's opinions about the most critical environmental issues facing their community. Students also write letters to preservationist and conservationist agencies to request information. In other activities, they examine how they can reduce the amount of trash they produce in a week, compare the effectiveness of toxic and nontoxic household products, test products that are advertised to be pH-balanced, and make model greenhouses out of soda bottles to learn about the greenhouse effect.

Most of the activities in this guide involve cooperative learning. Many of them engage students in role-playing or in looking at issues from various perspectives. Students record their observations, thoughts, and experiences in an environmental-issues journal. The guide includes limited background information for the teacher, reproducible student record sheets, and a bibliography.

Price: $11.95 (ISBN 1-55734-638-0).
Publisher/supplier: Teacher Created Materials.
Materials: Available locally, or from commercial suppliers.

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Environment,

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Life Sciences: Middle School Life Science, ~ Parade of Life: Animals, ~ The Interrelationships of Soil, Water and Fertilizers and How They Affect Plant Growth, ~ Mapping Fish Habitats,

Environmental Sciences: Acid Rain, ~ Changes in Ecosystems, ~ Chemicals: Choosing Wisely, ~ Chemical Survey and Solutions and Pollution, ~ Earth's Ecosystems, ~ Eco-Inquiry: A Guide to Ecological Learning Experiences for the Upper Elementary/Middle Grades, ~ Investigating and Evaluating Environmental Issues and Actions: Skill Development Program, ~ Living Lightly on the Planet: A Global Environmental Education Guidebook, ~ Pollution, ~ Chemicals, Health, Environment, and Me (CHEM 2: Enhanced Program), Investigating Your Environment: The MINI Edition, ~ Our Wonderful World: Solutions for Math + Science,

Earth Sciences: Glencoe Earth Science, ~ Blue Planet, ~ Earth at Hand: A Collection of Articles from NSTA's Journals, ~ On the Rocks: Earth Science Activities for Grades 1-8,

Multi & Applied Sciences: Integrated Science: Book One, ~ Integrated Science: Book Two, ~ The Local Environment, ~ Middle Grades Science: A Problem-Solving Approach, Seventh Grade, ~ Middle Grades Science: A Problem-Solving Approach, Eighth Grade, ~ SciencePlus Technology and Society: Level Red, ~ Science 2000: Grade 6, ~ Science 2000: Science 1 (Grade 7), ~ Science 2000: Science 2 (Grade 8), ~ Climate and Farming, ~ Investigating Chemical Processes: Your Island Factory, ~ Minds-on Science: For the Sake of the Nation, ~ Science Is . . , ~ Science on a Shoestring, ~ Thematic Applications: Sciences II, ~ Transformations: Science, Technology and Society.
Environmental issues,

Environmental Sciences: Acid Rain, ~ Investigating and Evaluating Environmental Issues and Actions: Skill Development Program, The Environment: The Science and Politics of Protecting Our Planet, ~ Investigating Your Environment: The MINI Edition, ~ Project Learning Tree Environmental Education Activity Guide: Pre K-8,

Earth Sciences: Exploring Earth Science,

Multi & Applied Sciences: Critical Issues in Today's World: A Module for Grades 4-7.
Greenhouse effect,

Physical Sciences: Heat Energy,

Life Sciences: Glencoe Life Science,

Environmental Sciences: Global Warming and the Greenhouse Effect, The Environment: The Science and Politics of Protecting Our Planet, ~ Global Warming: Understanding the Forecast: Teacher's Resource Manual,

Earth Sciences: Project Earth Science: Astronomy, ~ Global Climates--Past, Present, and Future: Activities for Integrated Science Education, ~ Student Activities in Meteorology (SAM),

Multi & Applied Sciences: Hot Water and Warm Homes from Sunlight, ~ Minds-on Science: For the Sake of the Nation.
Land use,

Environmental Sciences: Living Lightly on the Planet: A Global Environmental Education Guidebook, Environmental Resource Guide: Nonpoint Source Pollution Prevention, ~ The Environment: The Science and Politics of Protecting Our Planet, ~ Investigating Your Environment: The MINI Edition, ~ Outlook: The Earth, ~ Project Learning Tree Environmental Education Activity Guide: Pre K-8,

Earth Sciences: Using Earth's Resources: What Are the Tradeoffs?, ~ Water, Stones, and Fossil Bones.
Models,

Physical Sciences: Glencoe Physical Science, ~ Matter: Building Block of the Universe, ~ Chemical Interactions, ~ Experimenting with Model Rockets, ~ Inventor's Lab, ~ Newton's Toy Box, ~ Experiments with Balloons, ~ Experiments with Motion, ~ LEGO Technic I Activity Center, ~ Machines, ~ Science Experiments: Chemistry and Physics, ~ Simple and Motorized Machines Activity Pack, ~ Soap Films and Bubbles, ~ Structures,

Life Sciences: Glencoe Life Science, ~ Heredity: The Code of Life, ~ DNA--From Genes to Proteins, ~ Food, Energy, and Growth, ~ From Genes to Jeans: An Activity-Based Unit on Genetic Engineering and Agriculture, ~ The Human Body: How Can I Maintain and Care for Myself?, ~ An Introduction to Biotechnology: Book 2, ~ Life Changes through Time, ~ You and Your Body, ~ Zebra Mussel Mania, ~ The Molecular Model of DNA and Its Replication Kit, ~ Order and Diversity in the Living World: Teaching Taxonomy and Systematics in Schools,

Environmental Sciences: Plastics in Our Lives, ~ Water: Can We Keep It Fit for Life?, Environmental Resource Guide: Nonpoint Source Pollution Prevention, ~ Global Awareness for Students (GAS): Studies in Climate, ~ H₂O Below: An Activity Guide for Groundwater Study, ~ STV: Water,

Earth Sciences: Project STAR: The Universe in Your Hands, ~ Asteroid!, ~ Earth, Moon, and Stars, ~ Earth Processes, ~ Earthquake!, ~ Earthquakes, ~ The Moons of Jupiter, ~ Project Earth Science: Geology, ~ River Cutters, ~ Stories in Stone, ~ The Universe: Exploring Stars, Constellations, and Galaxies, ~ Earthquakes: A Teacher's Package for K-6, ~ Earth Science Investigations, ~ Earthy Things, ~ Hands-On Geology: K-12 Activities and Resources, ~ Janice VanCleave's Earthquakes: Mind-Boggling Experiments You Can Turn into Science Fair Projects, ~ On the Rocks: Earth Science Activities for Grades 1-8, ~ Project SPICA: A Teacher Resource to Enhance Astronomy Education, ~ A Sedimentary Geologists' Guide to Helping K-12 Earth Science Teachers: Hints, Ideas, Activities and Resources,

Multi & Applied Sciences: Models and Designs, ~ Prime Science: Level C, ~ Energy Transformations: Fourth Module in Bio-Related Technologies Unit, ~ Hot Water and Warm Homes from Sunlight, ~ How Telecommunication Works: How People Use Energy to Communicate, ~ If Shipwrecks Could Talk, ~ JASON IV Curriculum: Baja California Sur, ~ Life: Here? There? Elsewhere? The Search for Life on Venus and Mars, ~ Packaging, ~ A Sunken Ship, ~ The Teaching Tank Discovery Book, ~ The Teaching Tank Discovery Book, ~ Technology Science Mathematics Connection Activities, ~ Transformations: Science, Technology and Society.
Solid waste management,

Environmental Sciences: Solid Waste: Is There a Solution?,
Trash,

Environmental Sciences: There Is No Away, ~ Too Much Trash?, ~ The Waste Hierarchy: Where Is "Away"?, Experiments That Explore Recycling, ~ Trash and Garbage: What Happens to Trash and Garbage? An Introduction to the Carbon Cycle.
Water pollution,

Life Sciences: Ecosystems,

Environmental Sciences: There Is No Away, ~ Chemical Survey and Solutions and Pollution, ~ What's in Our Water?, Environmental Resource Guide: Nonpoint Source Pollution Prevention, ~ Experiments That Explore Recycling, ~ Minds-on Science: For Profit, for Planet,

Earth Sciences: Concepts and Challenges in Earth Science, ~ Arid Lands, Sacred Waters.

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