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Safety Practices |
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Introduction Why This Book and Why This Way? |
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Why an Emphasis on Content? |
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Why the Elementary Level? |
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Why Field-Based Learning? |
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Why So Many Web Resources? |
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Concerns Over Regionalism |
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Why the Environment and Why the Field? |
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Organization of the Book |
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Why This Way? |
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Chapter Organization |
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References |
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1 Geographic "Flights": An Exploration |
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3 Creating a Simple Contour Map |
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4 Map Legends: An Exploration |
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8 Constructing a Topographic Map Outside the Classroom |
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Chapter 2 Physical Geography |
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Natural Resources, Biome, Habitat, and Watershed |
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Riparian Buffers and Stream Structure |
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Physical Geography Activities |
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1 What Is Your Watershed Address? |
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2 Go With the Flow: An Exploration |
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3 Schoolyard Habitat Assessment |
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4 At-Home Habitat Assessment |
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5 Stream Habitat Assessment |
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Appendix A Schoolyard Report Card |
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Appendix B Your Yard Report Card |
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42 | (3) |
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1 Modeling the Water Cycle |
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2 Preparing pH Indicators From Red Cabbage |
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3 Red Cabbage Juice as a pH Indicator: Developing pH Standards |
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4 Using Red Cabbage Juice and pH Paper to Determine the pH of Household Products |
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5 Modeling the Impact of Salinity in Water |
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6 Exploring the Impact of Temperature and Salinity on Water Density |
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7 Sponging Up the Dissolved Oxygen |
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8 Testing Solubility of Oxygen in Water Over Time |
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10 Measuring Turbidity With a Turbidity Tube |
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Chapter 4 Soil: It's Not Dirt |
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1 Soil Color: Wetland Versus Nonwetland Soils |
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2 Soil Texture Investigation |
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5 The Living Soil or Winogradsky Column |
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Chapter 5 Energy and Nutrients |
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Why Chemistry, and What Are Nutrients? |
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Tying It All Together: Nutrient Loading and Water Quality |
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1 Exploring How Light Source Affects Plant Growth |
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2 Exploring Energy Through Evaporation |
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3 Exploring Energy Through Heat and Circulation |
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4 Chemical Water Quality Analysis |
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5 Tying It All Together: Nutrient Loading, Turbidity, and Water Quality. What's the Story? |
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Definition of Biodiversity |
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Determinants of Biodiversity |
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How Do We Measure Biodiversity? |
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Why Do We Measure Biodiversity? |
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2 Analysis of Plant and Animal Habitat in a Square Meter |
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3 Macroinvertebrate Analysis |
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4 Biofilms and Biodiversity |
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Chapter 7 Action Projects |
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127 | (5) |
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How to Choose an Action Project |
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128 | (1) |
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Integrating Action Projects Into Subject Area Content |
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Process and Completion of the Project |
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Single Classroom-Based Project: A Storm Drain Rain Garden |
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132 | (1) |
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Schoolwide Single Project: A Native Plant Garden |
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Schoolwide Single Project: Habitat Restoration |
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133 | (2) |
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Schoolwide Multiple Projects |
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An Example of Changes in Attitude With Action Projects |
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Teacher Advice Regarding the Implementation of Action Projects |
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Chapter 8 Reflections on Implementation |
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Creating a Schoolyard Habitat in Middle School |
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139 | (4) |
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Helping Students Become Green Kids |
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143 | (3) |
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In the "Old Days" We Went Outside |
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146 | (3) |
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A Science Educator and a Geologist Work Together to Make Topography Elementary |
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150 | (2) |
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152 | (1) |
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About the Authors |
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155 | (2) |
Figure Credits |
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157 | (2) |
Index |
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