ERIC Number: ED461548
Record Type: RIE
Publication Date: 1993
Pages: 57
Abstractor: N/A
ISBN: ISBN-0-8213-2335-0
ISSN: N/A
EISSN: N/A
Teaching Guide for "The Environmental Data Book: A Guide to Statistics on the Environment and Development."
Sheram, Katherine
This teaching guide accompanies "The Environmental Data Book," published by the World Bank. Environmental and development statistics are presented for discussion and analysis. Indicators of environmental quality and economic development are defined with accompanying charts and maps. Activities accompany each lesson, along with a worksheet at the end of each chapter to consolidate and measure learning for that indicator. Sections of the guide include: (1) "Introduction"; (2) "Beginning Activities"; (3) "Water: Access to Safe Water"; (4) "Land: Change in Forest Area"; (5) "Air: Suspended Particulate Matter"; (6) "Atmosphere: Carbon Dioxide Emissions per Capita"; (7) "Culminating Activities"; (8) "Test"; and (9) "Outline Maps." (EH)
Descriptors: Air Pollution, Demography, Developing Nations, Economic Factors, Economics, Environmental Education, Foreign Countries, Futures (of Society), Living Standards, Quality of Life, Secondary Education, Social Characteristics, Social Indicators, Social Studies, Sociocultural Patterns, Socioeconomic Influences, Statistical Data, Teaching Guides, Trend Analysis, Water Pollution
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Publication Type: Guides - Classroom - Teacher
Education Level: N/A
Audience: Practitioners; Teachers
Language: English
Sponsor: N/A
Authoring Institution: World Bank, Washington, DC.
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Note: For "The Environmental Data Book", see ED 361 223. Some text may not reproduce well. Edited by Kathryn Kline Dahl.