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AP Environmental Science: Population Growth

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Abstract:: Families in developing nations are often larger, but less resource intensive (e.g., they use fewer resources per person) than those in more developed nations. However, increasingly human populations wish to have a "western" standard of living.

Subject:: Science and Technology
Grade Level:: Secondary
SubTopics:: Eco Art and Culture , Industrial and Agricultural Impacts , Natural Resources
Collection:: Connexions

All Natural: Jim Denevan and Chris Drury

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Abstract:: SPARK tails artists Jim Denevan and Cris Drury as they create large earth works. This Educator Guide is about the history and tradition of artists making work in and about the natural environment.

Subject:: Arts, Science and Technology
Grade Level:: Primary, Secondary
SubTopics:: Eco Art and Culture
Collection:: KQED Education Network

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"Almost Broken Spirits": Farmers in the New South

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Abstract:: In the decades following the Confederacy's 1865 defeat and the abolition of racial slavery, white southern landowners, entrepreneurs, and newspaper editors heralded the coming of a "New South" economic order. Freed from the plantation system, the South would enter the modern age, building factories to turn its cotton into cloth, its tobacco crop into finished cigars and cigarettes, and its growing coal and iron ore output into steel. But not all southerners benefited from a prosperous and industrialized New South. Mill workers, small farmers, and tenants and sharecroppers bore the brunt of the sacrifices required to build a new southern economy. These extracts from letters by tenants and farm laborers to the North Carolina Bureau of Labor Statistics in 1887 and 1889 described the depressed crop prices, usurious interest rates charged by landowners for seed and equipment, and the absence of decent schooling for children faced by southern agricultural workers.

Subject:: Humanities
Grade Level:: Secondary, Post-secondary
SubTopics:: Sustainable Agriculture and Nutrition , Eco Art and Culture
Collection:: Many Pasts (CHNM/ASHP)

Art Meets Nature: Natalie Jeremijenko

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Abstract:: SPARK follows conceptual artist/engineer Natalie Jeremjienko as she works on her One Tree(s) project, planting 100 pairs of cloned trees throughout the Bay Area. This Educator Guide explores conceptual art as well as the investigative and ethical issues of life science and cloning.

Subject:: Arts, Science and Technology
Grade Level:: Primary, Secondary
SubTopics:: Eco Art and Culture
Collection:: KQED Education Network

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Art and Ecology

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Abstract:: Artists are often particularly keen observers and precise recorders of the physical conditions of the natural world. As a result, paintings can be good resources for learning about ecology. Teachers can use this lesson to examine with students the interrelationship of geography, natural resources, and climate and their effects on daily life. It also addresses the roles students can take in caring for the environment. Students will look at paintings that represent cool temperate, warm temperate, and tropical climates.
In this lesson students will: Identify natural resources found in particular geographic areas; Discuss ways in which climate, natural resources, and geography affect daily life; Apply critical-thinking skills to consider the various choices artists have made in their representations of the natural world; Make personal connections to the theme by discussing ways they can be environmental stewards; Identify natural resources found in particular geographic areas; Discuss ways in which climate, natural resources, and geography affect daily life; Apply critical-thinking skills to consider the various choices artists have made in their representations of the natural world; Make personal connections to the theme by discussing ways they can be environmental stewards.

Subject:: Arts, Science and Technology
Grade Level:: Secondary
SubTopics:: Eco Art and Culture
Collection:: National Gallery of Art

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Automobile Choices and Alternative Fuels

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Abstract:: In this lesson students will compare and make distinctions among 5 alternative fuels. They will understand the impact of different types of fuel on: a. the environment b. lifestyle c. the economy/personal finances of car choices. They will also use critical thinking skills to support multi-step decision-making for buying a car.

Subject:: Business, Science and Technology
Grade Level:: Secondary
SubTopics:: Climate Change , Industrial and Agricultural Impacts , Eco Art and Culture , Business & Economics
Collection:: PBS

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Backyard Weather Station

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Abstract:: In this hands-on activity, students use their senses to describe what the weather is doing and to predict what it might do next. After gaining a basic understanding of weather patterns, students will become state park engineers and build a "backyard weather station" to gather data for an actual weather forecast.

Subject:: Mathematics and Statistics, Science and Technology
Grade Level:: Primary, Secondary
SubTopics:: Eco Art and Culture , Green Building and Design
Collection:: TeachEngineering

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Blending Science and Art with Landsat (Lena River Delta Lithograph)

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Abstract:: Lena Delta is part of a collection of images of the Earth from space called, Landsat: Earth as Art. The images are designed to capture the attention of people who might not otherwise be interested in remote sensing. The images link the disciplines of science and art, and can be used to teach how the creative aspects of those disciplines employ similar human skills. The Lena Delta lithograph is intended to help the layperson understand the images better, particularly to help parents investigate the images with children ages 7-10. It encourages children and their parents to recognize patterns made in the surface of the Earth and is designed to help them see the inherent beauty of the Earth from space.

Subject:: Arts, Science and Technology
Grade Level:: Secondary
SubTopics:: Eco Art and Culture
Collection:: NASA

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Botany and Art: Their Roles in Conservation

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Abstract:: Students are introduced to the work of botanists and botanical illustrators, and specifically to their race to make records of endangered plant species around the world. Students examine illustrations, photographs, and dried specimens of endangered plants and consider the conservation value of an illustration over a photographic image. In a second session, students try their own hands at botanical illustration and follow the methods of a Smithsonian staff illustrator. Pencils, markers, tracing paper, and access to a photocopier are required.

Subject:: Humanities, Science and Technology
Grade Level:: Primary, Secondary
SubTopics:: Plants and Forests , Green Education , Eco Art and Culture
Collection:: Smithsonian Institutions

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Chris Schneider: Rethinking Conservation

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Abstract:: In this interview filmed for Evolution: "Darwin's Dangerous Idea," biologist Chris Schneider discusses the relationship between conservation and speciation.

Subject:: Science and Technology
Grade Level:: Primary, Secondary
SubTopics:: Eco Art and Culture
Collection:: Teachers' Domain

Conservation and biodiversity

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Abstract:: Dr. Richard Field research interests lie in conservation, biodiversity and the forces that structure ecological communities.
In this podcast, Dr Field from the School of Geography compares and contrasts his experiences as a researcher in national parks in Honduras and Indonesia, and the different types of ecological communities he has studied, and goes on to introduce the emerging field of conservation bio-geography.

Subject:: Science and Technology
Grade Level:: Post-secondary
SubTopics:: Eco Art and Culture
Collection:: University of Nottingham Open Courseware

Describing Fall Leaves Through Words and Music

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Abstract:: This is an integration of science leaf observations with musical composition for early elementary students.

Subject:: Science and Technology
Grade Level:: Primary
SubTopics:: Eco Art and Culture
Collection:: Pedagogy in Action (SERC)

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Dissatisfied With the Lives They Live: Farm Women Describe Their Work in a 1913 U.S. Department of Agriculture Report

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Abstract:: Statistics on women's work in the early 20th century were invariably misleading: most women worked but only a minority were formally in the wage labor force. Nowhere was the discrepancy between the domestic ideal and the reality of women's work lives wider than in rural America. In 1913 the U. S. Department of Agriculture decided to investigate and document the lives of farm woman they discovered a vast reservoir of discontent. The report, reproduced here, was culled from letters responding to a questionnaire sent to the wives of farmers and commented on all aspects of rural life, especially the enormous burden of labor that these officially non-working women were expected to carry out.

Subject:: Humanities
Grade Level:: Secondary, Post-secondary
SubTopics:: Eco Art and Culture
Collection:: Many Pasts (CHNM/ASHP)

Early Image: A collection of illustrations from popular sources.

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Abstract:: Early Image is a collection of extinct-animal paintings and sketches produced before 1923 (and therefore in the public domain). Some of the works are of Victorian age and may lend atmosphere to a class emphasizing the history of geology. The works are divided into two categories; prehistoric life before KT and prehistoric life after KT.

Subject:: Science and Technology
Grade Level:: Post-secondary
SubTopics:: Endangered Species , Eco Art and Culture
Collection:: Starting Point (SERC)

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Earth At Night (WMS)

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Abstract:: This image of Earths city lights was created with data from the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) Operational Linescan System (OLS). Originally designed to view clouds by moonlight, the OLS is also used to map the locations of permanent lights on the Earths surface. The brightest areas of the Earth are the most urbanized, but not necessarily the most populated. (Compare western Europe with China and India.) Cities tend to grow along coastlines and transportation networks. Even without the underlying map, the outlines of many continents would still be visible. The United States interstate highway system appears as a lattice connecting the brighter dots of city centers. In Russia, the Trans-Siberian railroad is a thin line stretching from Moscow through the center of Asia to Vladivostok. The Nile River, from the Aswan Dam to the Mediterranean Sea, is another bright thread through an otherwise dark region. Even more than 100 years after the invention of the electric light, some regions remain thinly populated and unlit. Antarctica is entirely dark. The interior jungles of Africa and South America are mostly dark, but lights are beginning to appear there. Deserts in Africa, Arabia, Australia, Mongolia, and the United States are poorly lit as well (except along the coast), along with the boreal forests of Canada and Russia, and the great mountains of the Himalaya.

Subject:: Science and Technology
Grade Level:: Secondary, Post-secondary
SubTopics:: Eco Art and Culture
Collection:: NASA GSFC Scientific Visualization Studio

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Earth as Art: A Landsat Perspective

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Abstract:: Shows striking photos of Aleutian clouds, the Araca River (Brazil), Atlas Mountains (Morocco), Guinea-Bissau (West Africa), Bolivian deforestation, Parana River delta marshland (Argentina), volcanoes in Chile, the Great Salt Desert in Iran (Dasht-e Kevir), Dragon Lake (Siberia), the Everglades, Ganges River delta, Greenland coast, West Fjords (Iceland), Karman vortices, Kilimanjaro (East Africa), the world's largest glacier (Lambert Glacier), and more.

Subject:: Arts, Humanities, Science and Technology
Grade Level:: Primary, Secondary, Post-secondary
SubTopics:: Eco Art and Culture
Collection:: Library of Congress

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Eco Mandalas

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Abstract:: Using the art of Andy Goldworthy as inspiration, Elders create mandalas using nature based materials. Focus on history of mandalas, use of balance, texture, color. Lesson created for Elders, but could be used for any age.

Subject:: Arts
Grade Level:: Primary, Secondary, Post-secondary
SubTopics:: Eco Art and Culture
Collection:: Kitsune

Eco-living

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Abstract:: De hoofdgedachten in drie teksten over alternatieve levensstijlen met elkaar vergelijken.

Subject:: Humanities
Grade Level:: Post-secondary
SubTopics:: Eco Art and Culture
Collection:: KlasCement

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Ecology - Quiz

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Abstract:: Test your knowledge on all areas of ecology in this interactive quiz.

Subject:: Science and Technology
Grade Level:: Secondary
SubTopics:: Eco Art and Culture
Collection:: Scoilnet

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"Efficient Farms Need Not Pay Starvation Wages": The Fair Labor Standards Act and Migratory Agricultural Workers

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Abstract:: Congress passed the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) on June 25, 1938, the last major piece of New Deal legislation. The act outlawed child labor and guaranteed a minimum wage of 40 cents an hour and a maximum work week of 40 hours, benefiting more than 22 million workers. Although the law helped establish a precedent for the Federal regulation of work conditions, conservative forces in Congress effectively exempted many workers, such as waiters, cooks, janitors, farm workers, and domestics, from its coverage. In October 1949, President Harry S. Truman signed into law the Fair Labor Standards Amendments of 1949, raising the minimum wage to 75 cents hour and extending coverage, but still leaving many workers unprotected. In the following statement to the 1949 Senate subcommittee on FLSA amendments, the chairman of a small advocacy organization appealed to Congress to extend the minimum wage and child labor provisions to cover agricultural workers.

Subject:: Humanities
Grade Level:: Secondary, Post-secondary
SubTopics:: Eco Art and Culture
Collection:: Many Pasts (CHNM/ASHP)

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AP Environmental Science: Population Growth

All Natural: Jim Denevan and Chris Drury

"Almost Broken Spirits": Farmers in the New South

Art Meets Nature: Natalie Jeremijenko

Art and Ecology

Automobile Choices and Alternative Fuels

Backyard Weather Station

Blending Science and Art with Landsat (Lena River Delta Lithograph)

Botany and Art: Their Roles in Conservation

Chris Schneider: Rethinking Conservation

Conservation and biodiversity

Describing Fall Leaves Through Words and Music

Dissatisfied With the Lives They Live: Farm Women Describe Their Work in a 1913 U.S. Department of Agriculture Report

Early Image: A collection of illustrations from popular sources.

Earth At Night (WMS)

Earth as Art: A Landsat Perspective

Eco Mandalas

Eco-living

Ecology - Quiz

"Efficient Farms Need Not Pay Starvation Wages": The Fair Labor Standards Act and Migratory Agricultural Workers

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