Description: On File "TM" is our award-winning collection of visual reference materials. Each On File "TM" depicts complex subjects in a way that both engages and informs students and researchers. These flexible resources fit into every curriculum.
-- Instructors can use the pages for handouts, overheads, posters, and testing.
-- Students can use them as quick sources of information, to reference curriculum topics, or to supplement their essays and reports.
-- On Files "TM" are available in either binder or electronic format.
-- All of the maps, charts, diagrams, and illustrations are designed in clean black-and-white graphics and are printed on sturdy pages.
-- Pages are housed in durable three-ring binders.
-- Replacement pages are available if they are lost or stolen.

Designed for Kids, A Natural Selection

From the ocean floor to the stratosphere, Junior Environment On File "TM" provides a complete and thorough grounding in ecology and environmental studies for children. This volume visually presents multifaceted concepts in a way that boys and girls will find easy to comprehend. Because this resource collects all the information about ecology and the environment in one place, teachers can spend more time and energy communicating with their students about the issues and less time searching for the information they need. Science, geography, social studies, civics, and current events classes will find Junior Environment On File "TM" a natural selection.

Visually Explains the Environment

Over 500 charts, graphs, tables, diagrams, maps, and illustrations visually convey the ecological and environmental topics taught in grades 4-6.

Highlights of Junior Environment On File"TM" and Junior Environmental Activities On File "TM":

Developed with contemporary education trends and geared to the new science curricula, both resources:
-- Convey the subject matter and concepts recommended by Project 2061 and major curricula
-- Include material in Science-Technology-Society (STS)
-- Link science and social studies
-- Link science with reading/language arts by fostering an atmosphere of communication and encouraging writing
-- Stress hands-on/minds-on science.

Partial Table of Contents:

Getting Ready for Environment Activities

What is Environmental Science?

Human Beings Affect Our Planet's Ecosystems

Seven Environment Issues on Planet Earth

Plant & Animal Populations

Animals May Live Alone, in Families, or in Groups

Plants in a Population Interact with Each Other

The Human Population Explosion

Plant & Animal Communities

Species in a Community Interact

Humans Interact with the Rest of the Natural World

Habitats

Animals Affect Habitats

Human Homes in Four Habitats

Ecosystems & Energy

A Temperate Deciduous Forest Food Web

The Energy Pyramid

Recycling Within Ecosystems

What Is Soil Made of?

A Model Landfill

Change in Ecosystems

Growth of a Coral Reef Atoll

How a Road Changes a Natural System

Adaptation & Evolution

Crustaceans: Survival Adaptations

Special Delivery: Seed Adaptations

Humans Have Both Biological & Cultural Adaptations

Earth Biomes & Ocean Ecosystems

What Makes a Biome?

Biomes of North America

Oil at Sea: How a Resource May Threaten a Biome

Biodiversity

Four Reasons Ocean Animals Are Endangered

Saving Endangered Species Around the World

Milestones in U.S. WildlifeProtection

The Biosphere

How Smog Is Formed

Groundwater Contamination: Cleaning Up Is Hard to Do

A Pesticide Pyramid

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