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50 Years of ERIC
50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Integrating Teaching about the Little Ice Age with History, Art, and Literature.
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Glenn, William Harold – Journal of Geoscience Education, 1996
Discusses climate change during the Little Ice Age as experienced during several historical events, including the settlement and demise of the Norse Greenland colonies, the landing of the Pilgrims at Plymouth, and both the Battle of Trenton and Washington's encampment at Valley Forge during the American Revolution. Associated artistic and literary…
Descriptors: Art History, Climate Change, Curriculum Enrichment, Earth Science
Introduction of the Concepts of Plate Tectonics into Secondary-School Earth Science Textbooks.
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Glenn, William Harold – Journal of Geoscience Education, 1992
Secondary school earth-science textbooks in print from 1960 through 1979 were examined to determine how rapidly concepts of plate tectonics were incorporated into those texts during the period when scientists' views about these concepts were evolving most rapidly. Suggests that delays were probably due to an unwillingness to engage in speculation…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Earth Science, Geology, Plate Tectonics