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A no-holds-barred ecology curriculum for elementary & junior high school students
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Lewis Thomas (1974) likened the world to a cell with each constituent part working together for the functional good of the whole. Oceans and atmosphere serve as a kind of cytoplasm, organisms a kind of nucleus; and as in the cell, damage to any of the vital parts of the world would be detrimental and injurious to its life function. This metaphor is useful to keep in mind when teaching ecology, and especially so when the educational targets are elementary students (Dunbar, 1999).
Very young students are capable of learning basic ecological principles and applying them to common environmental ...
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Energy efficiency achievable
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Energy and Environment: Multiregulation in Europe. (Book Reviews).
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Energy in the 21st Century.(John R. Fanchi)(Book review)
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