LIC501 Fall 2014

"Tour the World" is track #1 from Brain Beats 2 - the mnemonic CD that features 13 brilliantly catchy songs to help you remember things you've always wanted to learn, but couldn't.

Food Miles is a website that allows users to calculate how far food has traveled before it gets to the consumer. This would be a great way to exemplify how much we rely on other countries to supply our basic needs. This website emphasizes the significance of globalization to upper elementary students. It is also a wonderful way to integrate sustainability and math into the social studies curriculum. This website will open students eyes to how interdependent the worlds nations are.

By Meera Dolasia on April 19, 2011 Word Search With an estimated 12,500 plastic bottles being discarded every 8 seconds, environmentalists are trying to come up with new innovative uses for this synthetic waste that is rapidly filling our landfills and harming our marine life.

Catherine, the video clip actually made me misty. This is fantastic!

Alison Teal walking through "Trash Island," a giant landfill in the Maldives that gets up to 400 tons of trash per day. (All photos: Sarah Lee) Filmmaker Alison Teal was in the process of literally exposing herself to a national TV audience when she found new inspiration: exposing the serious and complex trash-pollution issues affecting the Maldives, and turning plastic garbage into something useful.

Through a contract from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Pacific Southwest Office (EPA), Kier Associates (Kier) quantified the amount that 90 cities in California, Oregon, and Washington watersheds are spending to clean up litter and prevent trash from entering our oceans.

Rather long but might be useful in shorter version.

It seems that in our busy life of fast food and convenience, many people have become so disconnected from their food, they don't know where their food actually comes from (or what it is made of!). This is the first article in a series to help kids understand more about our food system.

Food habits are shaped by environment, available ingredients, climate, and even factors like class and income. Though food is first and foremost a basic necessity, it is also a cultural symbol: Sushi is synonymous with Japan, fish and chips conjure up images of Britain, and tacos are associated with Mexico etc.

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Allows for inter-active read aloud issues as well as a monthly standards calendar by NG to align with curriculum.

Vessels of all sizes can be sources of marine debris. Fishing vessels can be sources of fishing nets, lines, lures, rope, bait boxes, and light sticks. Recreational boats, military and other government vessels, cargo ships, cruise ships, ferries, and charter boats can be sources of galley waste, trash, plastic bags, and other materials.

Friends of the Earth grades environmental practices of cruise lines WASHINGTON, D.C. - Cruise ships dumped more than 1 billion gallons of sewage in the ocean last year, much of it raw or poorly treated, according to federal data analyzed by Friends of the Earth, which is calling for stronger rules to protect oceans, coasts, sea life and people.

Snapshots of families' weekly shop from countries around the world shows the food gulf between nations By Daily Mail Reporter A study of what 30 families living around the world eat in one week shows the huge gulf between the diets of different nations.

Put the five signs, each with a continent's name written on it, around the room (Europe, Asia, Africa, South America, and North America). Tell young people to think about which of the five continents they believe has the healthiest food choices and the healthiest eating habits and to stand by that continent's sign.

Marine debris is any man-made, solid material that enters waterways directly through littering or indirectly via rivers, streams and storm drains. Marine debris can be simple items such as a discarded soda can, cigarette butt, or plastic bag that ends up in the ocean potentially harming marine life.

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