environment

Summary: Examines the way various artists depict different places in their works and describes how to use such techniques as perspective, light, details, and color.

Ms. Frizzle and her students board the Magic School Bus for a lesson on climate change and what can be done to save the Earth.

Focuses on projects directly related to the environment.

Six lessons for which instructional support and teaching steps are provided in the unit curriculum guide. Each lessons unfolds in four stages: Inquiry, Observation, Analysis, Synthesis. In this unit students examine connections between people and their environment. They begin surveying their own environment and considering their relationship with it. They go on to study relationships between Americans and environment in the context of four different historic episodes in the period of rapid growth and development between the Civil War and World War I.

The author provides a chronicle of his travels to nineteen countries in an attempt to understand the complex environmental problems of each nation, and their effects on the people who must deal with them on a daily basis.

Examines the cycles and systems within the environment, basic principles of ecology, and pollution of the environment.

Gives a social and historical view of humanity's effect on the landscape, both now and in the future.

An illustrated discussion of environmental issues such as pollution and sustainable development.