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- Transportation, land use, natural resources and trade are natural ways to tie environmental topics to social studies lessons. Encourage students to: analyze environmental legislation, use Geographic Information System resources (such as Google Earth) to look at environments globally, and explore the impacts of climate, environment and natural resources on historical events. Use the search function to the right to explore other ways to incorporate environmental themes into social studies lessons.
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- ResourcePosted bydjr85onJuly 19, 2010
The historian Douglas Brinkley credits William Finley as being one amongst a group of photographers that helped popularize wildlife photography. Growing up in Northern California and Oregon, Finley spent his time roaming the wilderness and developed an interest in birding. He would often collect specimens of rare bird species and eggs.
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Conservation groups, schools, businesses and governments across the globe are planning events and activities Tuesday to celebrate the world’s oceans, a day of tribute tinged by worry over the impact of a devastating oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
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- StoryPosted bydjr85onSeptember 7, 2010
Many of Los Angeles's urban poor have bigger concerns than climate change. Nonetheless, the past few years have seen formerly homeless and jobless folks planting gardens, installing solar panels, and working other green jobs as they make upgrades to increase the efficiency of their homes. According to an article in the L.A.
Link: - ResourcePosted bydjr85onSeptember 2, 2010
National Environmental Education Week (EE Week) has compiled their own set of Oil Spill resources. They include everything from websites and articles to visuals and lesson plans. Content spans grades K-12, so make sure to check for your appropriate grade level.
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In a remote reach of the Gulf of Mexico, nearly 200 miles from shore, a floating oil platform thrusts its tentacles deep into the ocean like a giant steel octopus.
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New research confirms the existence of a huge plume of dispersed oil deep in the Gulf of Mexico and suggests that it has not broken down rapidly, raising the possibility that it might pose a threat to wildlife for months or even years.
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