Wright, Dartmouth College Dorothy F. Boorse, Gordon College. Everyday Environmental Science video activities connect environmental science course topics with current stories in the news. Produced by the BBC, these high-quality videos can be assigned for pre- and post-lecture homework, or can be shown in class to engage students in the topic at hand.
Interpreting Graphs and Data activities and Process of Science activities help students practice quantitative literacy and scientific reasoning skills. Students learn to analyze data, develop a hypothesis or make a prediction. Each activity includes personalized feedback for wrong answers. Video Field Trip activities give students fascinating behind-the-scenes tours of real environmental concerns and the strategies and solutions employed to address them. These popular, short videos engage students as they explore a coal-fired power plant, a wastewater treatment facility, a wind farm, and more.
New video field trip activities discuss bee colony collapse and take students on a tour of a water desalination plant. Current Events Articles from the New York Times are assignable and updated twice a year with new articles that help instructors integrate current environmental topics into their course.
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About the Text Help students focus on important concepts and develop science skills. Concept Check Questions follow each major topic discussion within each chapter and provide students with opportunities to check their understanding as they read and review. These questions are aligned with the Learning Objectives that are listed at the beginning of each chapter and students can quickly check their understanding by consulting the answer key at the back of the text.
Understanding the Data questions have been added to selected graphs, maps, and tables to give students practice in interpreting data and to focus their attention on important points that are presented in such figures. Numbered Learning Objectives open each chapter and introduce key concepts that students should understand at the conclusion of the chapter. These Learning Objectives are reinforced in the MasteringEnvironmentalScience item library as "learning outcomes" for instructors to quickly create assignments.
Current and contemporary Environmental Science issues are updated throughout the text as well as data related to the UN Millennium Development Goals. Examples include the drought in the Western United States, the impact of an aging population in Japan, and the Keystone pipeline proposal.
Engaging stories open each chapter and draw students into reading the chapter topic at hand. New to the Thirteenth Edition are chapter-opening stories on the threatened habitat of emperor penguins in the Antarctic Chapter 3 , the declining population of African savanna elephants Chapter 4 , drought in the American Southwest Chapter 10 , and the recent Ebola outbreak Chapter Three unifying themes of science, sustainability, and stewardship help students conceptualize the task of forging a sustainable future.
Her research involves using GIS to assess landscape-level problems in conservation and biodiversity. In particular, she is interested in understanding the nature of fragmentation in grassland environments and the effects of fragmentation on the make-up of bird communities.
The agricultural landscapes where she has been working represent a complex and fascinating interaction of issues concerning working landscapes, resource use, remnant wildlife habitat, and landscape aesthetics.
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Read download. Welcome to environmental science—an interdisciplinary study of how the. Environmental science is an interdisciplinaryacademic field that integrates physical, biological and information sciences including ecology, biology, physics, chemistry, plant science, zoology, mineralogy, oceanography, limnology, soil science, geology and physical geography geodesy , and atmospheric science to the study of the environment, and the solution of environmental problems. Environmental science emerged from the fields of natural history and medicine during the Enlightenment.
Related areas of study include environmental studies and environmental engineering. Environmental studies incorporates more of the social sciences for understanding human relationships, perceptions and policies towards the environment. Environmental engineering focuses on design and technology for improving environmental quality in every aspect. Environmental scientists work on subjects like the understanding of earth processes, evaluating alternative energy systems, pollution control and mitigation, natural resource management, and the effects of global climate change.
Environmental issues almost always include an interaction of physical, chemical, and biological processes. Environmental scientists bring a systems approach to the analysis of environmental problems. Key elements of an effective environmental scientist include the ability to relate space, and time relationships as well as quantitative analysis.
Environmental science came alive as a substantive, active field of scientific investigation in the s and s driven by a the need for a multi-disciplinary approach to analyze complex environmental problems, b the arrival of substantive environmental laws requiring specific environmental protocols of investigation and c the growing public awareness of a need for action in addressing environmental problems.
Events that spurred this development included the publication of Rachel Carson's landmark environmental book Silent Spring [3] along with major environmental issues becoming very public, such as the Santa Barbara oil spill, and the Cuyahoga River of Cleveland, Ohio, 'catching fire' also in , and helped increase the visibility of environmental issues and create this new field of study.
In common usage, 'environmental science' and 'ecology' are often used interchangeably, but technically, ecology refers only to the study of organisms and their interactions with each other and their environment.
Ecology could be considered a subset of environmental science, which also could involve purely chemical or public health issues for example ecologists would be unlikely to study. In practice, there is considerable overlap between the work of ecologists and other environmental scientists. The National Center for Education Statistics in the United States defines an academic program in environmental science as follows:.
A program that focuses on the application of biological, chemical, and physical principles to the study of the physical environment and the solution of environmental problems, including subjects such as abating or controlling environmental pollution and degradation; the interaction between human society and the natural environment; and natural resources management.
Includes instruction in biology, chemistry, physics, geosciences, climatology, statistics, and mathematical modeling.
Atmospheric sciences focus on the Earth's atmosphere, with an emphasis upon its interrelation to other systems. The following guidelines should help students in the preparation of their critiques. Begin with a complete bibliographic citation of your article.
Summarize the major ideas presented in the article. Ask yourself and answer in your summary questions like: a. What is the hypothesis?
How is the hypothesis tested? What evidence is presented to support or refute the hypothesis? What conclusion did the author reach? Critically analyze the article. Ask and answer questions like these: a. Were the experimental procedures adequate? Do you agree with the conclusions reached? Was the article written well? Do you think the topic is important? Why or why not? Did this article raise any new questions in your mind? Describe the general steps in the scientific method. Analyze scientific articles to determine how the scientific method was employed by the researchers.
Demonstrate sensitivity to diversity Quizzes and Tests a. Experience the creative products of humanity. Papers and Projects — Group or Individual b.
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