Features
Paradigms Lost - And the Myths We Teach Our
Children by Mark W. McElroy
Are we unwittingly teaching anti-environmental values
through the anthropocentric bias of most school
curricula?
Rivers - An Interdisciplinary Inquiry through the
Arts
by Francine Morin, Ann Stinner, Elizabeth Coffman
Guidelines for planning interdisciplinary inquiries
Ancestral Arts by Elizabeth Lorentzen
In collecting and preparing their own earthy materials,
students gain an appreciation of traditional art
techniques and an admiration for the people who first
developed them
Tracking Migratory Animals: Going Online for
Environmental Education by Bob Coulter
Balancing technology and first-hand experience in a
project involving migrating animals
Celebrating Earth Week: It's Elemental by Deanna Fry
A collection of ideas, activities and resources for
exploring and celbrating our connections to the earth
during Earth Week 1998
Junior Solar Sprint by Aisling O'Shea
Designing, building and racing a solar-powered car in the
Junior Solar Sprint is a fun, hands-on way for middle
years students to learn about renewable energy.
Enviro-pix: Using Digital Cameras in the Classroom by Dan Clements
A little silcone wafer has just made classroom
photography cheaper, easier and more friendly to the
environment.
Development of an Ecological World View by Tatyana Shpotova, Olga Trushkina, Ludmila Starykh,
Elena Kochetkova
A profile of a dynamic system of continuous ecological
education which is gaining advocates in schools across
Russia and the countries of the former Soviet Union.
Planet Earth:
Resource Conservation (available online)
by Heather Murray, Brenda Sawada, Lorraine McLauchlan,
Wendy Fitzgibbons
Activities intended to promote students' awareness of the
energy and other resources needed to support their
lifestyles, and to encourage an ethic of conservation and
reduction.
Inside the
Internet: The Weirdest Place in the World (available online)
by Richard Kool
Make a virtual expedition to hot vent communities on the
deep sea floor.
And as
always, over 20 new educational resources are profiled and
evaluated in this issue of Green Teacher.
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