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Learning Environmental Concepts in Primary School for Sustainable Development
Christel Persson* and Anna Musidlowska-Persson**
* Kristianstad University, Sweden, ** Lund University, Syngenta Seeds, Sweden
Note from the field - This paper explores environmental education research in primary school. The teacher works with projects in science and technology to stimulate the pupils’ interest and participation in environmental education. Semi-structured interviews with the young pupils have been carried out. It was observed that the children are able to argue about possibilities to change different daily routines in different ways, which reduce disturbances to the environment.
The National Weather Center REU Visiting Faculty Program
Forming Concepts and Strengthening Vocabulary in Earth Sciences through Etymology
Nittala S. Sarma, Marine Chemistry Laboratory, School of Chemistry, Andhra University, Visakhapatnam - 530 003 INDIA
Integrating Policy into Science in the Classroom: Three Case Studies on the Atmosphere
Sarah T. Gille, Scripps Institution of Oceanography and Dept. of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California San Diego
Ripples of Learning: A Middle School Teacher's Application of Content and Pedagogy Learned in the ESSEA Online Earth System Science Course
Article and video - The Earth System Science Education Alliance (ESSEA) online professional development course for middle school classroom teachers uses real-world events to develop content understandings of Earth system science, and it models best practices for age-appropriate pedagogy. A case study is presented that includes: a visitation in November 2002, text from the course's threaded discussions, and video clips of students doing Earth system science in their fifth-grade classroom.
Considering the Earth as an Open SystemArticle - This review article synthesizes research from several disciplines and surveys the topics of mass extinctions, transpermia, interplanetary dust and micrometeorites, delivery of complex pre-biotic organics molecules from space, ice ages, small comets and panspermia.
Ecosystem Change and Public Health: A Global PerspectiveBook review - The purpose of this textbook is twofold: (1) to raise awareness of changes in human health related to global ecosystem change and (2) to expand the scope of the traditional curriculum in environmental health to include the interactions of major environmental forces and public health on a global scale
Science Into Policy: Global Lessons from AntarcticaBook review - This book reveals a unique model for integrating Earth system science with environmental and resource policies to balance economic, governmental, and societal interests.
The Ice Age QuickTime visualizations of ice extent, sea level change and vegetation during the past 21,000 years, with explanatory text
Computationally Intensive Models in the Classroom
Owen Thompson, Donald Johnson*, Eugenia Kalnay, DaLin Zhang, Ming Cai, Max Suarez**, David Yanuk, Todd Schaack*
University of Maryland, *University of Wisconsin, **NASA GSFC
Article describing the use of models in the classroom with links to VRML examples
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