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VCE Environmental Science
Monitoring Ecosystems
Authors: VAEE
This book has been developed to complement the 2001 VCE Environmental Science course, Units 1 and 2.
The book contains information on the environment and its components, environmental indicators and their use in monitoring programs. It also contains practical exercises and ideas for fieldwork. |
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Issues of Sustainability
Authors: VAEE
This book has been developed to complement the VCE Environmental Science course, Units 3 and 4. Two major ecological issues, global warming and biodiversity are examined in terms of their impact on the environment. The second section investigates pollution and its relationship to the health of humans and the environment.Students examine strategies for managing the environment to meet human needs while maintaining ecological integrity of the environment. The book contains practical exercises and ideas for fieldwork. |
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Green Teacher to come.
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Green Teacher to come.
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Energy for the VCE
Authors: VAEE
This resource will provide any teacher with useful activities and suggestion about the issues and concepts related to the generation and consumption of energy. Although this resources is slightly outdated the activities and learning outcomes are still relevant to today's curriculum.
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A Sustainable Earth
Authors: Peter Preuss, Geoff Duke & Judy Rogers
This textbook is relevant to senior courses of study in Environmental Studies and Environmental Science. It is also relevant to environmental sections within other senior subjects such as Biology, Chemistry and Geography. A Sustainable Earth analyses how resource use has changed over time with human intervention and how humans should be managing resources sustainably. |
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McGraw-Hill Concise Encyclopedia of Environmental Science
- Features over 800 articles encompassing the scope of environmental sciences today
- Puts the world of environmental science at your fingertips, in a conveniently portable, alphabetically organized volume
- Includes clear, concise, expert-authored coverage of topics such as agriculture, climatology, ecology, environmental engineering, epidemiology, forestry, geochemistry, geography and mapping, geology, microbiology, oceanography, plant pathology, and zoology
- Provides illustrations, bibliographies, appendices, and other valuable supplements to the articles
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Earth and Environmental Science: The HSC Course
Earth and Environmental Science: The HSC Course comprehensively meets all NSW Stage 6 syllabus requirements, providing extensive and up-to-date coverage of core AND option topics, with special attention given to providing material for those areas of the syllabus that teachers have found difficult to resource.
Title features:
. expected learning outcomes for each chapter section to assist lesson preparation and student revision
. clear and easily-identifiable definitions, positioned near relevant passages of text, to explain and reinforce key concepts
. review and extension activities and practical exercises of varied difficulty to address the needs of all students
. exam-style questions to assist students in their revision and exam preparation
. extensive lists of additional web and print resources, arranged by topic, to support further investigation and research
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Earth & Environmental Science: Preliminary HSC
Tailored to the NSW Stage 6 syllabus, Earth and Environmental Science: The Preliminary Course covers the four core modules of the Preliminary course: Planet Earth and its Environment, The Local Environment, Water Issues, and The Dynamic Earth.
Title features:
. expected learning outcomes for each chapter section to assist lesson preparation and student revision
. clear and easily-identifiable definitions, positioned near relevant passages of text, to explain and reinforce key concepts
. a section of full-colour illustrations and photographs to emphasise and illustrate important concepts
. review and extension activities and practical exercises of varied difficulty to address the needs of all students
. exam-style questions to assist students in their revision and exam preparation
. extensive lists of additional web and print resources, arranged by topic, to support further investigation and research
. appendices offering guidance on open-ended investigations, secondary source research, and local sources of relevant information, to provide students with a thorough grounding in effective research.
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Environmental Biology
This book clearly outlines learning objectives and provides self-assessment questions (with answers) and exam-style end-of-chapter exercises offer excellent opportunities for independent study.
Environmental Biology provides information on:
1. Introduction to environmental biology
2. Agriculture and the environment
3. Pollution
4. Conservation of resources
5. National conservation issues
6. International conservation issues
7. Ecological fieldwork
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