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- 6th - 8th
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Students examine the complex social, economic, and environmental problems of siting a resource recovery facility. They determine the advantages and disadvantages for the community. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students examine the delicate balance between using resources to improve the standard of living for citizens and preserving resources to protect natural biodiversity and environment. They conduct their own case studies on important water resources. Full Review »
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- 5th - 8th
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Students write research reports on their local and state legislators. They develop their own criteria for evaluating their legislators and focus on specific environmental issues such as endangered species, toxic waste, or logging. Full Review »
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- 7th
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Students discover environmental problems and their solutions. They will realize that all human activity has an environmental impacet and they will research and come up with real-life solutions to human impact problems. Full Review »
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- 3rd - 4th
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Students study natural habitats, aquatic life, renewable and non-renewable resources. They discuss conservation efforts for sea otters and desert toad in this units. Full Review »
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- 6th - 8th
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Students explore that some resources are finite. They are able to deelop an understanding of commodities-some resources are worth more than others so companies choose to spend more money to find them. Students realize that some environmental damage may occur from recovery of resources. They are able to analyze the role of technology in resource acquisition. Students are able to conclude that predicting remaining reserves is problematic. Full Review »
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- 7th
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Students describe how electrical energy can be produced from a variety of energy sources and recognize and explain that different ways to obtaining and transforming energy have different environmental consequences. Full Review »
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- 11th - Higher Ed
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Students explore environmental problems due to the growing worldwide human population and examine the growth rate. They also discuss possible ways to stabilize population growth and increase sustainable development. Full Review »
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- 11th - 12th
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Students explore occupational and environmental safety issues and standards and their implications for the electrical industry. They investigate career and employment opportunities in the industry. Students become familiar with the safety standards of Saskatchewan's energy and mining industries. Full Review »
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- 5th - 9th
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Students experience how devices can be connected to a computer to monitor and measure changes in environmental conditions. They observe and monitor external changes in temperature and how to log in data collected from the observations. Full Review »

