Environmental Science presents complex issues in a user-friendly format to increase students’ knowledge of scientific facts. Written to meet national and state standards, this new text helps students sharpen their critical-thinking skills as they interpret data, formulate hypotheses, observe and record information, analyze data, and draw conclusions. With a multitude of related activities and teacher support materials, Environmental Science will provide students with a clear base of knowledge in this essential area of science.
Features: Aligns with state and national standards, ELL/ESL appropriate, applies research -based learning and teaching strategies, presents special features throughout the text—Map Skills and Environmental Issues in the World, includes relevant, hands-on supplementary activities.
Table of Contents: Exploring Science and the Environment, The Dynamic Earth, How Living Things Interact, The Diversity of Life, Biomes of the World, People and the Environment, Energy, Water Resources and Water Pollution, Air Pollution, Solid and Hazardous Waste, Feeding the World, Protecting Biodiversity and A Sustainable World
The Student Workbook features activities that extend and reinforce basic concepts while the Laboratory Manual provides activities that turn abstract theory into concrete action.
The Teacher's Resource Library CD-ROM offers hundreds of activities including those from the Student Workbook and Self-Study Guide (for students who want to work at their own pace), two forms of chapter tests, plus midterm and final tests.
Skill Track Software includes hundreds of multiple-choice items relating to the te xtbook’s content. Also contains group and individual reports f or monitoring student’s progress. For Windows and Macintosh.
Each Curriculum Class Set includes: 10 Textbooks, 1 Teacher’s Edition plus 1 Teacher’s Resource Library.
Curriculum/Software Class Sets include Curriculum Set above plus Skill Track Software
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