The major objectives of a lab class, and this manual, are to provide students with hands on experiences that are relevant, 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 relevant 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 categories 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. Relevance 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.
| ISBN | 0072909137 | | Pages | 208 | | ISBN13 | 9780072909135
(What's this?) | | Volumes | 1 | | Publisher | McGraw-Hill Education - Europe | | Weight (grammes) | 426 | | Imprint | McGraw Hill Higher Education | | Published in | London | | Format | Spiral / Comb Bound | | Height (mm) | 274 | | Publication date | 16 Aug 1999 | | Width (mm) | 215 | | DEWEY | 333.7 | | Spine width (mm) | 12 | | DEWEY edition | DC21 | | Academic level | Tertiary education |
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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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