Internet Collection
This is a collection of useful web sites for teaching public policy in the earth sciences. If you know of web sites, journal articles or other references that are useful for teaching and learning about public policy issues, let us know about them.
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Subject: Environmental Science
- 1 match General/Other
- Water Quality and Quantity 7 matches including water resource management, water quality and water treatment
- Air Quality 1 match
- Energy 4 matches sources, supply, reserves, uses
- Waste 6 matches
- Forest Resources 1 match
- Soils and Agriculture 5 matches
- Oceans and Coastal Resources 2 matches
- Land Use and Planning 3 matches planning, zoning, sprawl issues, urban heat island
- Human Population 1 match
- Sustainability 1 match
- Natural Hazards 1 match
- Global Change and Climate 6 matches
- Ecosystems 5 matches
- Policy 20 matches
Environmental Policy
- Global Policy 4 matches
- US National Policy 4 matches
- Local Policy 4 matches
- Environmental Decision-Making 9 matches including risk assessment
- Environmental Economics 5 matches market forces, consumerism, cost/benefit analysis, distribution of wealth, privatization, incentives, taxes, fines, etc
- Environmental Ethics/Values 1 match
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Global Warming Facts and Our Future part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This virtual museum website provides easily understood scientific information that helps both policy makers and the public answer important questions about the changing global climate in order to ...
Energy and the Environment part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This website examines the issues related to balancing America's energy needs with concerns about safety and the environment. This site features articles and teaching materials from the New York Times ...
Ecological Footprint Quiz part of SERC Web Resource Collection
Ever wondered how much "nature" your lifestyle requires? Global Footprint Network's quiz will tell you. The user answers questions about their lifestyle in order to ...
Model United Nations Headquarters part of SERC Web Resource Collection
Model United Nations (UN) is an authentic simulation of the U.N. General Assembly and other multilateral bodies. This Headquarters homepage offers an 'ask an ambassador' section, an overview of the ...
Water-Borne Illnesses part of SERC Web Resource Collection
In this curricular unit, students learn how water becomes contaminated with specific water-borne diseases, read personal accounts of unsafe water, and work together to brainstorm solutions to the ...
The Fishing Game part of SERC Web Resource Collection
In The Fishing Game, students compete with 2 virtual fishing companies to maximize their bank balance by fishing. A population model informs the results of each year's fishing. The game is played ...
Principles, Structure, & Implementation of International Environmental Law part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This module introduces the fundamental norms and institutions that comprise international environmental law and then focuses on six specific topics: air pollution and protection of the atmosphere, ...
Low-level Nuclear Waste: A Geographic Analysis part of SERC Web Resource Collection
In this lesson plan students will learn how to analyze the problems surrounding nuclear waste and to make decisions concerning it. They will learn what radioactive waste is; learn the impacts that a ...
Scorecard: Investigate Pollution Topics part of SERC Web Resource Collection
Users can search this site for information on environmental pollution in the areas where they live. The materials presented here include a pollution ranking that shows regions and companies with the ...
Northwest Passage part of CLEAN Collection
In this activity, students use Google Earth and information from several websites to investigate some of the consequences of climate change in polar regions, including the shrinking of the ice cap at ...
Integrating Policy and Land Management Issues into a Natural Sciences Education: Teaching Environmental Sciences on the lower San Juan River, Utah part of SERC Print Resource Collection
This article describes an interdisciplinary field course combining natural sciences and policy and land management. The course is founded on a place-based set of problems. The course consists of a ...
EarthScore: Your Personal Environmental Audit and Guide part of SERC Print Resource Collection
How do your daily activities at home, on the job and in between affect the environment? EarthScore offers an opportunity to quantify your environmental impact. This booklet consists of 107 questions ...
Exploring the Environment: Yellowstone Fires part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This site from Wheeling Jesuit University features an exercise in which students engage in a policy debate using an Earth System Science (ESS) analysis of a fire's impact on the air, land, water, and ...
Colorado River Supply part of CLEAN Collection
This activity addresses climate change impacts that affect all states that are part of the Colorado River Basin and are dependent on its water. Students examine available data, the possible ...
Melting Sea Ice part of CLEAN Collection
This activity uses a mix of multimedia resources and hands-on activities to support a storyline of investigation into melting sea ice. The lesson begins with a group viewing of a video designed to ...
Eyewitnesses to Change part of CLEAN Collection
In this activity students explore recent changes in the Arctic's climate that have been observed and documented by indigenous Arctic residents. Students watch a video, take notes, and create a ...
Decision Making Curricula for the Great Lakes part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This website features a collection of secondary level science activities for teaching about the Great Lakes using a structured decision making approach as a way to help narrow the disparity between ...
The Use of a Piece of Land (title provided or enhanced by cataloger) part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This activity is designed to engage students in a practical exercise in land use planning; to make the students aware of the positive and negative aspects of land use laws and local zoning ordinances ...
Mercury in Schools part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This site explains the importance of mercury as a school and community issue and helps to identify where it is most likely to be found. There is information about online graduate courses for teachers ...
Global Rivers Environmental Education Network part of SERC Web Resource Collection
The GREEN program provides ideas and information related to creating a watershed-based educational project and is geared toward taking action to protect watersheds. There are exercises and action ...
