Composting in the Classroom is a comprehensive guide for teachers and students interested in using composting for scientific research projects. Composting is inexpensive, multidisciplinary, and applied to practical waste management issues. In addition, it offers a limitless range of possibilities for interesting and useful research projects. This book includes detailed information about the science of composting, instructions for making your own compost either inside or outdoors, and guidelines for setting up meaningful research projects.

Composting in the Classroom: Scientific Inquiry for Hs Students

Trautmann, Nancy M.

Science & Math

Kendall/Hunt Pub. Co.

Assessing Toxic Risk is a comprehensive guide to student research in toxicology. It includes an overview of basic principles of toxicology and how they are used to assess chemical risks. It provides simple but authentic research protocols to engage students in the process of testing chemical toxicity by conducting bioassays using lettuce seeds, duckweed, and Daphnia. It also contains guidelines for integrating peer review and other collaborative knowledge-building into classroom science. Toxicology makes an ideal topic for student research because it provides a natural link between biology, chemistry, environmental science, and human health; it highlights the connections between science and public policy; and builds critical-thinking skills.

Assessing Toxic Risk : Teachers Guide and Student Edition

Cunningham, Christine M.

Krasny, Marianne E.

Carlsen, William S.

Nature & Ecology

Natl Science Teachers Assn

Are you looking for a new way to teach about respiration, nutrient cycling, energy flow, producers, consumers, and decomposers? Decay and Renewal provides techniques for students to learn the basics while investigating the science behind biodegradation in nature and in human-engineered systems for wastewater treatment, waste disposal, and bioremediation of oil spills and other contaminated sites. The Teacher Edition explains how to guide student research and engineering design projects. Classroom-ready materials include detailed background information, sample assessment tasks, and rubrics, and guidelines for integrating peer review into classroom science. The Teacher Edition contains the complete text of the Student Edition. The Student Edition includes: An overview of basic principles of biodegradation and how they apply in composting, landfills, wastewater treatment, and bioremediation systems. Protocols that provide instructions for conducting experiments on biological, chemical, and physical aspects of biodegradation. Forms to guide students through each step of research, providing structure but flexibility in designing and conducting meaningful experiments. Step-by-Step guidelines for an engineering design challenge related to treatment of simulated wastewater. Decay and Renewal is the third volume in the four-part Cornell Scientific Inquiry Series, designed to guide students in creating and conducting experiments, presenting their results, and exchanging feedback with their peers.

Decay and Renewal

Biological Sciences

How can we decide what concentration of arsenic is acceptable in public drinking water? What does it mean to say that Vitamin D is a highly toxic chemical? How can we balance the risks of spraying pesticides versus the risks of insect-borne diseases such as West Nile Virus, Lyme Disease, or Malaria? Students discover the answers to these intriguing questions and more by delving into the Cornell Scientific Inquiry Series: Assessing Toxic Risk, Student Edition. It includes five chapters of background text on the basic concepts of toxicology. Also included are planning forms, presentation guidelines, and peer review forms that guide students through self-designed research projects that encourage critical thinking. This integrated approach allows students to discover firsthand the natural links between biology, chemistry, environmental science, and human health.

Assessing Toxic Risk, Student's edition (Cornell Scientific Inquiry Series)

Medical Books

Administration & Medicine Economics

NSTA Press

Assessing Toxic Risk, Teacher Edition (Cornell Scientific Inquiry Series)

Earth Sciences

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