Join-
Global Environmental Change: Biodiversity
NSTA Press Book | January 1997
This book uses Costa Rica as a case study because the country's tropical forests contain four percent of Earth's total biological species diversity. Biodiversity's activities and readings help students explore efforts…
-
Global Environmental Change: Deforestation
NSTA Press Book | January 1997
Washington State’s Olympic Peninsula contains some of America’s only old-growth forest. Its timber supports local, regional, and even global economies. It also supports many biological species and provides a link in…
-
Global Environmental Change: Carrying Capacity
NSTA Press Book | January 1997
Carrying Capacity addresses the ability of the Earth to sustain healthy populations of different species. Earth's human population, now past six billion, is expected to reach 10 billion by 2030. This growth will place…
-
Global Environmental Change: Introduced Species
NSTA Press Book | January 1998
Human activity has introduced species to ecosystems around the globe. Some species are benign or even beneficial; others, like zebra mussels, fire ants, and water hyacinths, are causing native species extinctions and…
-
Investigating Environmental Changes, Grade 2: STEM Road Map for Elementary School
NSTA Press Book | February 2019
What if you could challenge your second graders to design an outdoor STEM classroom with a butterfly garden, birdbath, and sundial? With this volume in the STEM Road Map Curriculum Series, you can! …
-
Let’s Explore Environmental Changes Over Time!
Book Chapter | January 2019
In this lesson, students consider the various types of environmental changes that occur over time and participate in a class investigation of the causes and effects of erosion. They also begin to consider ways in which…
-
Journal Article | March 2022
In this study, we analyzed the literature on teaching or learning on a topic in Earth science, environmental science, or climate change between 1995 and 2017. We investigated the length of the intervention, intervention…
-
Investigating Environmental Changes, Grade 2: STEM Road Map for Elementary School (Book Sample)
Book Chapter | February 2019
What if you could challenge your second graders to design an outdoor STEM classroom with a butterfly garden, birdbath, and sundial? With this volume in the STEM Road Map Curriculum Series, you can! …
-
Observing Environmental Changes from Earth's Orbit
Journal Article | April 2019
Astronomy throughout the year.
-
Book Chapter | June 2015
In this chapter, the purpose of this Lab 18 is for students to apply what they know about migration, genetic drift, and natural selection to explain the evolution of beak size in a population of birds. …
-
Teaching Environmental Social Justice
Journal Article | November 2022
-
Reconstructing Environmental Change Using Lake Varves as a Climate Proxy
Journal Article | March 2012
This article describes an investigative activity in which eighth-grade students reconstructed past environmental change in the New England area using data from lake varves in central Vermont to examine evidence of…
-
Environmental Science: Natural Disasters
Journal Article | May 2023
-
Journal Article | May 2016
To develop a context for program-level design decisions pertaining to anthropogenic climate change, the authors studied the prevalence of courses focused on human-induced climate change in undergraduate marine science…
-
Journal Article | March 2002
Malformed anurans (frogs and toads) are excellent bio-indicators—living organisms sensitive to environmental changes that are used to judge the quality of a certain habitat. Students investigate these phenomena online…
490 Results