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 | Field and Laboratory Activities t/a Environmental Science 7e, 7th Edition
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 | | Eldon Enger, DELTA COLLEGE
Bradley F Smith, WESTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY
| | Spiral Bound/Comb, 208 pages | | ©2000, ISBN-13 9780072909135 | | | Publisher's Retail Price:$64.38
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| | Bookstore's Wholesale Price:$51.50
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| | | Description |
The major objectives of a lab class, and this manual, are to provide students with hands on experiences that are relevent, easy to understand and applicable to the student's life, presented in an interesting, informative format. This lab manual has been extensively updated to provide the student with the latest information and most applicable laboratory activities possible. The manual has been expanded to provide students with more choices in activities that illustrate crucial environmental issues and relevent topics. Further, the expanded choice of labs allows each teacher to select activities that are tailored to the specific needs and circumstances of his, or her, class. Ranging from field and lab experiments to conducting social and personal assessments of the environmental impact of human activities, the manual presents something for everyone, regardless of the budget or facilities of each class. These labs are grouped by catagories that can be used in conjunction with any introductory environmental textbook. All lab activities have been field tested over the past 6 years, and are easy do within a 2 hour lab. Students, regardless of their science background, will benefit from the variety of laboratory activities offered. Relevence sections for each lab have been included to help the student see that he, or she, is doing more than "just counting trees." The instructions for each lab have been clarified and all sections shortened and updated. Finally, the students themselves have had extensive input on how to best improve the lab activities, ensuring that the voices of those most impacted by the manual are also heard.
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| Table of Contents |
Table of Contents
Unit 1 Ecological Principles
Chapter 1 Introduction and Lab Format
Chapter 2 Community Structure
Chapter 3 Estimating Population Size
Chapter 4 Species Diversity
Chapter 5 Habitat and Niche
Chapter 6 Ecological Competition
Chapter 7 Is Your Campus Friendly to Wildlife?
Field Trip Suggestions
Alternative Learning Activities
Unit 2 Population Growth
Chapter 8 Population Dynamics
Chapter 9 Human Population--Changes in Survival
Chapter 10 Human Population Dynamics
Field Trip Suggestions
Alternative Learning Activities
Unit 3 Resource Issues
Chapter 11 Water Awareness
Chapter 12 Water Pollution
Chapter 13 Stream Ecology
Chapter 14 Stream Quality Assessment
Chapter 15 Particulate Air Pollution
Chapter 16 Soil Management
Field Trip Suggestions
Alternative Learning Activities
Unit 4 Energy Use
Chapter 17 Economics of Energy Consumption
Chapter 18 Renewable Energy
Chapter 19 The Effectiveness of Insulation
Chapter 20 Personal Energy Consumption
Field Trip Suggestions
Alternative Learning Activities
Unit 5 Lifestyle Choices
Chapter 21 An Environmental Survey
Chapter 22 Land-Use Planning: A Shopping Center
Chapter 23 Probability and Risk
Chapter 24 Environmental Awareness and Lifestyle
Chapter 25 Our Finite Resources: The Current Affair
Field Trip Suggestions
Alternative Learning Activities
Appendix A Random Numbers Table
Appendix B Transforming ex to x
Appendix C The Beaufort Scale
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| About the Authors |
Retired from teaching at Delta College summer/2000.
Eldon has over 30 years teaching experience in biology, zoology, and environmental science. Eldon has been a Fullbright Exchange Teacher in Australia and Scotland, received the Bergstein Award for Teaching Excellence at Delta College, and participated in an Earthwatch Research Program in Costa Rica. In addition to the environmental science text, Eldon is co-author of the very successful CONCEPTS IN BIOLOGY, general biology text with WCB.
Brad is Dean of the Huxley School of Environmental Studies at Western Washington University in Bellingham, WA. Prior to this, he was Director of Environmental Education for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in Washington, D.C. Brad has degrees in political science, public administration, and natural resources from the University of Michigan. Before accepting the appointment with the EPA, Brad was a professor of political science and environmental studies for 15 years.
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| New Features |
The new exercises are more up-to-date, are more applicable to students' lives, can be completed in the usual lab time of two hours or less, don't require hard-to-get materials, have expanded and easy-to-understand instructions, are not abusive to animals, and are relevant to current issues in environmental science.
Every exercise contains the following learning tools: Objectives, Safety Considerations (when applicable), Introduction, Relevance, Activity Procedure (Materials and Methods), Data Sheets (perforated), and Questions.
The Relevance section is a new feature and explains to the student why this exercise is important to do and what relevance the lab has to current issues in environmental science.
The manual has a completely new interior design that is modern, clean, and supports the logical progression through the lab exercises.
The Field Trip Suggestions and Alternative Learning Activities have been completely updated, and have been moved to the end of each section so they can be used to summarize what the students have learned from the exercises in that section.
All of the Appendices are brand new and have been chosen because of their importance in assisting the student with the exercises.
Each lab covers all major aspects of an introductory environmental science course, and are considered "stand alone" so they can be used with any text. In addition, most labs are extremely inexpensive, so instructors do not need to invest lots of money to do the labs.
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