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Castañeda-Garza, Gerardo; Valerio-Ureña, Gabriel – Environmental Education Research, 2023
Recognizing the relevance of energy in our lives is essential for ensuring a sustainable future. The lessons offered by education systems could exert an impact throughout the lives of people. This study conducts a review of the content of elementary-level textbooks in Mexico to describe and analyze the scope of these materials and their depth from…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Textbooks, Elementary Education, Energy
Parra, Jessica Zlockie – Geography Teacher, 2019
A lot of the activities of daily living require energy, playing video games, making dinner, turning on the lights, using a computer, and perhaps even brushing our teeth requires energy. In this unit students discover what energy is, think about where it comes from, analyze options for making energy evaluate feasibility in different parts of the…
Descriptors: Energy Conservation, Lesson Plans, Energy, Elementary School Teachers
Modaffari, Jamil; Alleyne, Akilah – Center for American Progress, 2022
School buildings across America are crumbling. According to a 2020 report by the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO), 54 percent of U.S. school districts need to update or completely replace multiple building systems in their schools. As a result of decades of underfunding school infrastructure, national spending for K-12 school buildings…
Descriptors: School Districts, Educational Facilities Improvement, Federal Aid, Minority Group Students
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Shyang-Chyuan Fang – Journal of Baltic Science Education, 2018
Environmental problems nowadays pose threats to the sustainability of environment, such as global warming, urban air pollution, water scarcity, environmental noise, and biodiversity loss. The root cause of those problems is human behavior. Inspiring the interest of preschoolers is crucial in their future cognition of the environment. This research…
Descriptors: Parent Education, Parent Child Relationship, Environmental Education, Picture Books