This Land Is Our Land: Promoting Ecological Awareness in Young Children.

Cohen, Stewart; Trostle, Susan L.

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Publication Date: 1990

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This Land Is Our Land: Promoting Ecological Awareness in Young Children.

Cohen, Stewart; Trostle, Susan L.

Childhood Education, v66 n5 p304-10 1990

The ecological issues of pollution, overpopulation, and conservation can be explained in the classroom through the use of creative play, problem solving, and discovery methods among groups of young children. Activities for teaching the topics of air, water, land, and noise pollution; overpopulation; and conservation are suggested. (DG)

Descriptors: Air Pollution, Classroom Techniques, Discovery Processes, Early Childhood Education, Ecology, Elementary Education, Environmental Education, Problem Solving, Teaching Methods, Water Pollution

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Guides - Classroom - Teacher

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Language: English

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