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Annie McMahon Whitlock – Teachers College Press, 2024
This book uses the water crisis in Flint, Michigan, as a touchstone for the importance and value of including place-based education in the social studies curriculum. Whitlock scrutinizes this local environmental issue to not only drive critical inquiry in the classroom, but also to show how the curriculum can propel valuable social change in the…
Descriptors: Social Studies, Place Based Education, Teacher Attitudes, Parent Attitudes
Kwan, Terry; Texley, Juliana – 2003
This book for middle school science teachers is the second in a series of three safety books intended to offer positive options as they raise awareness of potential hazards in the science classroom. The book is written in narrative style and discusses safety concepts in the context of commonplace situations in real classrooms. Topics covered…
Descriptors: Hazardous Materials, Laboratory Safety, Middle Schools, School Safety
Biological Sciences Curriculum Study, Colorado Springs. – 1987
This book is the teacher's edition to the 1987 edition of the Biological Sciences Curriculum Study Green Version textbook. It contains directions for teaching with this version, a description of the accompanying materials, teaching strategies by chapters, lists of useful software, safety guidelines, a materials list, chemical safety information,…
Descriptors: Biological Sciences, Hazardous Materials, Instructional Materials, Laboratory Procedures
Kirchhoff, Mary, Ed.; Ryan, Mary Ann, Ed. – 2002
This laboratory manual introduces the idea of Green Chemistry, which is the design of chemical products and processes that reduce or eliminate the use and generation of hazardous substances. Instructional samples are included to help teachers integrate green chemistry into the college chemistry curriculum. Each laboratory includes: (1) a…
Descriptors: Chemistry, Environmental Influences, Hazardous Materials, Higher Education
Texley, Juliana; Kwan, Terry; Summers, John – National Science Teachers Association (NJ3), 2004
Just as high school science is more complex than it is at lower grade levels, so are the safety issues teachers face in their classes and labs. Reduce the risks to people and place with Investigating Safely, the third and most advanced and detailed volume in NSTA's unique series of safety guidebooks for science teachers. Some of the guides 11…
Descriptors: Safety, Laboratory Safety, Secondary School Science, High Schools
California State Dept. of Toxic Substance Control, Sacramento. – 1993
This book is designed to provide teachers with interdisciplinary, action oriented environmental activities for grades K-12 concerning the issue of waste. The activities are organized into three sections and several subsections. The first section contains 29 activities pertaining to natural resources and pollution in subsections involving needs and…
Descriptors: Air Pollution, Cooperative Learning, Decision Making, Elementary Secondary Education