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Resource Description: This resource is provided by the Northwest Center for Sustainable Resources, and includes laboratory activities developed for a series of Environmental Science courses. Environment Science is a series of three courses developed by Chemeketa Community College that addresses...

Course Description: This course is provided by the Northwest Center for Sustainable Resources and introduces students to aquatic field and laboratory methods. Students record data and observations field notebooks and journals. Laboratory activities include using laboratory balances, calibration and...

Course Description: Published by the Northwest Center for Sustainable Resources, this is a capstone course for natural resources and fisheries technology programs that follows Aquatic Field and Laboratory Methods I. In the first half of the course students learn techniques for water quality...

This 231-page guide addresses issues, attitudes, and practices of our Native American Indian society relative to environmental and natural resources topics. The guide poses a series of questions developed by teachers on key topics whose answers are designed to help non-Native Americans in teaching...

This 90-page guide explains community-based education and ecosystem management as organizing frameworks around natural resource-based studies. The manuals purpose is to generate ideas, provide support, and highlight an organizational template for educators that will allow that process of a...

This 61-page course guide provides an overview of the Environmental Ethics course. This course "examines human and human/non-human relationships from an extra-cultural perspective." Topics include definitions of environmental ethics, sustainability, "centrisms," "Green Politics," "Deep Ecology," "...

Program Description: Environment Science is a series of three courses developed by Chemeketa Community College that addresses environmental topics. Each is a 4-credit course that includes a lab and lecture. The courses are targeted towards students in natural resource areas (e.g. Forestry, Fish and...

Program Description: Environment Science is a series of three courses developed by Chemeketa Community College that addresses environmental topics. Each is a 4-credit course that includes a lab and lecture. The courses are targeted towards students in natural resource areas (e.g. Forestry, Fish and...

Program Description: Environment Science is a series of three courses developed by Chemeketa Community College that addresses environmental topics. Each is a 4-credit course that includes a lab and lecture. The courses are targeted towards students in natural resource areas (e.g. Forestry, Fish and...

This module helps students practice and gain skills in "evaluating claims made in written accounts of environmental issues." Students evaluate an article on a current environmental topic using the following questions: "What do we accept as evidence? What is the source of the evidence? What is the...