Field and Laboratory Activities t/a Environmental Science 7e - Softcover

Enger, Eldon; Smith, Bradley

9780072909135: Field and Laboratory Activities t/a Environmental Science 7e

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0072909137 ISBN 13: 9780072909135

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education, 1999

The major objectives of a lab class, and this manual, are to provide students with hands on experiences that are relevent, easy to understand and applicable to the student's life, presented in an interesting, informative format. This lab manual has been extensively updated to provide the student with the latest information and most applicable laboratory activities possible. The manual has been expanded to provide students with more choices in activities that illustrate crucial environmental issues and relevent topics. Further, the expanded choice of labs allows each teacher to select activities that are tailored to the specific needs and circumstances of his, or her, class. Ranging from field and lab experiments to conducting social and personal assessments of the environmental impact of human activities, the manual presents something for everyone, regardless of the budget or facilities of each class. These labs are grouped by catagories that can be used in conjunction with any introductory environmental textbook. All lab activities have been field tested over the past 6 years, and are easy do within a 2 hour lab. Students, regardless of their science background, will benefit from the variety of laboratory activities offered. Relevence sections for each lab have been included to help the student see that he, or she, is doing more than "just counting trees." The instructions for each lab have been clarified and all sections shortened and updated. Finally, the students themselves have had extensive input on how to best improve the lab activities, ensuring that the voices of those most impacted by the manual are also heard.

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From the Publisher:

The new exercises are more up-to-date, are more applicable to students' lives, can be completed in the usual lab time of two hours or less, don't require hard-to-get materials, have expanded and easy-to-understand instructions, are not abusive to animals, and are relevant to current issues in environmental science.
Every exercise contains the following learning tools: Objectives, Safety Considerations (when applicable), Introduction, Relevance, Activity Procedure (Materials and Methods), Data Sheets (perforated), and Questions.
The Relevance section is a new feature and explains to the student why this exercise is important to do and what relevance the lab has to current issues in environmental science.
The manual has a completely new interior design that is modern, clean, and supports the logical progression through the lab exercises.
The Field Trip Suggestions and Alternative Learning Activities have been completely updated, and have been moved to the end of each section so they can be used to summarize what the students have learned from the exercises in that section.
All of the Appendices are brand new and have been chosen because of their importance in assisting the student with the exercises.
Each lab covers all major aspects of an introductory environmental science course, and are considered "stand alone" so they can be used with any text. In addition, most labs are extremely inexpensive, so instructors do not need to invest lots of money to do the labs.

About the Author:

Eldon is an emeritus professor of biology at Delta College. He has over 30 years of teaching experience in biology, zoology, and environmental science. Eldon has been a Fulbright Exchange Teacher in Australia and Scotland, received the Bergstein Award for Teaching Excellence at Delta College, and participated in an Earthwatch Research Program in Costa Rica. In addition to the environmental science text, Eldon is co-author of the very successful CONCEPTS IN BIOLOGY general biology text with McGraw-Hill.

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