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Investigating Your Environment: The MINI Edition.
U.S. Forest Service. Ogden, Utah: U.S. Forest Service, Intermountain Region, 1994.
Recommended grade level:
4-8.
Investigating Your Environment: The MINI Edition, which takes a multidisciplinary approach to environmental science activities, contains the 11 most popular chapters from the original 21-chapter version of the volume. The first chapter, on developing an environmental investigation, offers teachers suggestions about developing instructional objectives, question sequences, and lesson plans, among other topics. The remaining chapters focus on forests, interpreting the environment, investigating an environmental issue, land use simulation, natural resources in an urban environment, plant relationships, schoolyard activities, soil, water, and wildlife.
Each chapter includes an introduction, a sketch of its activities, suggestions for combining the activities, a section on curriculum relationships, and fully developed lesson plans, including reproducible planning and data sheets.
Price:
Free.
Publisher/supplier:
USDA Forest Service Web site, at http://www.fs.fed.us/outdoors/nrce/iye/contents.htm.
Materials:
Available locally.
Topic Index listings linked to this entry
Use these listings to find related entries.
Environment, Physical Sciences: "The Best of Edison" Science Teaching Kits, 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), ~ Environmental Issues: Intermediate, 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, ~ Environmental Issues: Intermediate, ~ The Environment: The Science and Politics of Protecting Our Planet, 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.
Forests, Environmental Sciences: STV: Biodiversity.
Land use, Environmental Sciences: Living Lightly on the Planet: A Global Environmental Education Guidebook, ~ Environmental Issues: Intermediate, ~ Environmental Resource Guide: Nonpoint Source Pollution Prevention, ~ The Environment: The Science and Politics of Protecting Our Planet, 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.
Natural resources, Environmental Sciences: Water: Can We Keep It Fit for Life?, ~ Activities to Teach Mathematics in the Context of Environmental Studies, ~ Global Awareness for Students (GAS): Studies in Climate, Earth Sciences: Exploring Earth Science, ~ Using Earth's Resources: What Are the Tradeoffs?, ~ Arid Lands, Sacred Waters, ~ Earthy Things.
Plants, Life Sciences: Ecosystems, ~ Experiments with Plants, ~ Exploring Life Science, ~ Glencoe Life Science, ~ Parade of Life: Monerans, Protists, Fungi, and Plants, ~ Food from Our Land, ~ How Much Is Too Much? How Little Is Too Little? Factors That Affect Plant Growth, ~ The Lives of Plants, ~ Plants in Our World, ~ Pond Life, ~ Power Plants: A Plant-Based Energy Curriculum for Grades 5 through 8, ~ Exploring Classroom Hydroponics, ~ GrowLab: A Complete Guide to Gardening in the Classroom, ~ GrowLab: Activities for Growing Minds, ~ Living in Water: An Aquatic Science Curriculum for Grades 5-7, Environmental Sciences: Environments, ~ Biology Is Outdoors! A Comprehensive Resource for Studying School Environments, ~ Living Lightly on the Planet: A Global Environmental Education Guidebook, ~ Activities to Teach Mathematics in the Context of Environmental Studies, Our Wonderful World: Solutions for Math + Science, Multi & Applied Sciences: The Local Environment, ~ Prime Science: Level A, ~ Prime Science: Level C, ~ Food Production: Second Module in Bio-Related Technologies Unit, ~ Forecasting the Future: Exploring Evidence for Global Climate Change, ~ Science Is . . .
Soil, Life Sciences: How Much Is Too Much? How Little Is Too Little? Factors That Affect Plant Growth, ~ Earthworms, Environmental Sciences: Earth's Ecosystems, ~ Experiments That Explore Recycling, Our Wonderful World: Solutions for Math + Science, ~ Outlook: The Earth, Earth Sciences: Concepts and Challenges in Earth Science, ~ Glencoe Earth Science, Multi & Applied Sciences: Middle Grades Science: A Problem-Solving Approach, Sixth Grade, ~ Prime Science: Level B, ~ Food Production: Second Module in Bio-Related Technologies Unit.
Water, Physical Sciences: Hard As Ice, ~ Science Investigations for Intermediate Students, Life Sciences: Living in Water: An Aquatic Science Curriculum for Grades 5-7, Environmental Sciences: Activities to Teach Mathematics in the Context of Environmental Studies, ~ California Smith, Water Investigator: Water Education Program, Our Wonderful World: Solutions for Math + Science, ~ Outlook: The Earth, ~ STV: Water, ~ Water Wisdom: A Curriculum for Grades Four Through Eight, Earth Sciences: Glencoe Earth Science, ~ Arid Lands, Sacred Waters, ~ Earth at Hand: A Collection of Articles from NSTA's Journals, ~ Earth: The Water Planet, ~ On the Rocks: Earth Science Activities for Grades 1-8, ~ Water, Stones, and Fossil Bones, Multi & Applied Sciences: Middle Grades Science: A Problem-Solving Approach, Sixth Grade.
Wildlife, Environmental Sciences: Wildlife and Humanity: Can We Share the Earth?, Wading into Wetlands.
