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Martin Burrett

Geocube - The world of Geography at your fingertips - 3 views

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    This site is a great place to find information about a range of geoscience and geography topics, ranging from volcanoes and droughts to natural resources and environmental protection. You can even download minimalist versions of the topics as PDFs. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/PSHE%2C+RE%2C+Citizenship%2C+Geography+%26+Environmental
Martin Burrett

Climate Science Info Zone - - Science Museum - 5 views

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    This is a great set of video and other resources from London's science museum about climate change and its mitigation. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/PSHE%2C+RE%2C+Citizenship%2C+Geography+%26+Environmental
Roland Gesthuizen

The Natural and Enhanced Greenhouse Effect - YouTube - 2 views

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    video by VCE Environmental Science Students
Jeanne Elliott

GIS in Action - National Geographic Education - 4 views

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    Environmental Science
Roland Gesthuizen

Film Trailer | Midway - 5 views

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    "The MIDWAY media project is a powerful visual journey into the heart of an astonishingly symbolic environmental tragedy. On one of the remotest islands on our planet, tens of thousands of baby albatrosses lie dead on the ground, their bodies filled with plastic from the Pacific Garbage Patch."
Sean Nash

NYC Street Trees by Species - 2 views

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    A very cool dynamic data set laid atop a map of the streets of New Your City... "New York City's urban forest provides numerous environmental and social benefits, and street trees compose roughly one quarter of that canopy. This map shows the distribution and biodiversity of the city's street trees based on the last tree census."
Jeanne Elliott

Educational Leadership:What Students Need to Learn:Teaching Science Literacy - 3 views

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      Create a sign of these questions in class
  • Do most students think about the effect of these issues on their everyday lives? Do our students consider the roles they might play in changing how a science-connected problem is resolved over the coming decades?
  • Proficient science readers will read the text that correlates to a table of data, for example, and then study the table, looking for features like units of measure, data range values, and column titles. They will then look back at the text to reread, or continue reading, in an effort to connect this information to the text.
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  • Visit data centers at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration or the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for real data on everything from the level of oceanic sediments to the locations of toxic chemical storage sites in the United States.
Roland Gesthuizen

We Do Not Inherit the Earth from Our Ancestors; We Borrow It from Our Children | Quote ... - 3 views

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    "In my opinion the most thoughtful and poignant quotation about the environment is the following: We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children" .. So what is the origin of this saying?
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