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This is a resource that will capture and excite the imagination of young people. A beautifully told story explores, through a mythical animal, the environmental issues of endangered species. The tale includes adventure and time travel. Each of the six lessons provides teacher notes, class activities, discussion points, games and worksheets.

The stories could be incorporated into:

" Literacy hour

" PSHCE

" Citizenship

" Geography

" History

" Environmental studies

National curriculum connections are provided for Key Stage 2 and 3 including:

" Living things

" Chronological understanding

" Ideas and evidence in science

" Thinking about the lives of people in other places and times, and people with different values and customs.

Another inspirational idea put into practice by the author team who were highly commended in the NASEN/TES book competition for their previous work on Anger Management. ... Read more

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This digital document is a journal article from Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology, published by Elsevier in 2004. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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It is crucial to study how food resources are allocated in order to understand how invertebrate species of soft-bottomed benthic communities can live in the same environment, especially when belonging to the same trophic level. On the southern shore of the Lower St. Lawrence Estuary, the polychaetes Nereis virens (Nereidae) and Nephtys caeca (Nephtyidae) represent the main infaunal predators and are known to regulate (by predation) other populations within their community. For these animal populations, there is a high degree of spatial overlap in the horizontal dimension as well as vertically in the sediment column. The purpose of this study was to describe and compare the feeding activity of N. virens and N. caeca in relation to several environmental factors. The feeding activity of N. caeca was further studied under natural and experimental conditions and a feeding experiment was carried out to evaluate how the food resource is subdivided in conditions of high spatial overlap. Finally, the prospecting activity of N. virens was described under natural conditions. N. virens and N. caeca exhibited a high degree of dietary overlap, particularly at the adult stage. This food resource overlap can easily influence the regulation of these species, even though they display different feeding responses to environmental stimuli. Tides and storm events can also influence the feeding behaviour. We conclude that different behavioural feeding responses likely favour the occurrence of these two species in the same trophic environment. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Canadian Journal of Urban Research, published by Institute of Urban Studies on December 22, 2004. The length of the article is 590 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Frank, Lawrence D., Peter O Engeike and Thomas L. Schmid: Health and Community Design: the Impact of the Built Environment on Physical Activity.(Book Review)
Author: Chris Green
Publication: Canadian Journal of Urban Research (Refereed)
Date: December 22, 2004
Publisher: Institute of Urban Studies
Volume: 13Issue: 2Page: 390(2)

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This digital document is an article from Journal of School Health, published by American School Health Association on December 1, 2008. The length of the article is 5833 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the author: Keywords: child and adolescent health; nutrition and diet; physical fitness and sport; community health; public health.

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Title: Physical activity and healthy eating in the after-school environment.(Research Article)(Report)
Author: Karen J. Coleman
Publication: Journal of School Health (Magazine/Journal)
Date: December 1, 2008
Publisher: American School Health Association
Volume: 78Issue: 12Page: 633(8)

Article Type: Report

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This digital document is a journal article from Health and Place, published by Elsevier in 2007. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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The purpose of this study was to quantify the agreement between perceived and objective measures of the natural environment and to assess their associations with physical activity. Perception of the natural environment was obtained through survey data. Objective measures of weather and hills were created using Geographic Information Systems (GIS). When objective measures were compared to respondent's perceptions little agreement was found. Objective measures were not associated with any physical activity outcomes; however, several associations were seen between perceived measures and physical activity. These results indicate that researchers should consider perceptions of the natural environment when developing physical activity interventions. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from JOPERD--The Journal of Physical Education, Recreation & Dance, published by American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance (AAHPERD) on April 1, 2010. The length of the article is 826 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: What role should physical education play in the outside-of-school physical activity environment?(Issues)
Author: Unavailable
Publication: JOPERD--The Journal of Physical Education, Recreation & Dance (Magazine/Journal)
Date: April 1, 2010
Publisher: American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance (AAHPERD)
Volume: 81Issue: 4Page: 9(2)

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In an examination of invertebrate immune responses, this text covers such topics as: evidence for invertebrate inflammatory cytokines; lectines; models of natural and induced molecules in invertebrates; and histocompatability reactions in invertebrates. ... Read more

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Animal folklore from around the world is woven together with scientific information, news articles, ideas for classroom activities and extensive bibliographies in this introduction to conservation created by storyteller and author Norma J. Livo and scientist Glenn McGlathery. This work begins with a general discussion of extinction and wildlife conservation, including pertinent statistics and ethical considerations. Ther are chapters on specific animals, such as wolves, bald eagles, bears, tigers and elephants. Each chapter includes a story, factual information, curricula suggestions and resources. ... Read more

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This volume is produced from digital images created through the University of Michigan University Library's large-scale digitization efforts. The Library seeks to preserve the intellectual content of items in a manner that facilitates and promotes a variety of uses. The digital reformatting process results in an electronic version of the original text that can be both accessed online and used to create new print copies. The Library also understands and values the usefulness of print and makes reprints available to the public whenever possible. This book and hundreds of thousands of others can be found in the HathiTrust, an archive of the digitized collections of many great research libraries. For access to the University of Michigan Library's digital collections, please see http://www.lib.umich.edu and for information about the HathiTrust, please visit http://www.hathitrust.org ... Read more

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This Sacred Earth begins with spiritual reflections by naturalists. Surveying traditional religious myths, creation stories, and conceptions of nature--with extensive selections from Jewish, Christian, Native American, Indian, African, Chinese, and indigenous texts and commentators, the contributors focus on religion in the age of environmental crisis.We see how individuals and institutions are reinterpreting and transforming old traditions, and eco-feminists are challenging patriarchal perspectives. ... Read more

Customer Reviews (3)

Great resource for ecocriticism applied to religious texts and ideas
"Sacred Earth" is a collection of essays that facilitates the examination of the intersection between ecocritical theories and religious texts and ideas. A great range of subjects, approaches, ad texts are considered. Very worth the consideration of any one new to the field of ecocritical studies. Even long time scholars in the area will find much that is useful.

great reference book
I wanted a good reference manual for understanding the 'old religion'and it's roots. This book seemed perfect.

An excellent reader, worth reading and rereading.
The advantage of readers is twofold. First, they allow one to cover a lot of ground with relatively little reading, allowing a fairly quick overview of the subject. Second, they can act as an introduction to writers whosework can be discovered in depth elsewhere. 'This Sacred Earth' offers bothadvantages. Those interested in what has been written and thoughtconcerning the links between religion, nature and the environment could doa lot worse than to start here. In addition, Roger Gottlieb's introductionsto the seven sections of readings presented provide a commentary on the keyissues and a guide through the diversity of the religious traditionsrepresented. In fact, diversity is one of the strengths of this book.Gottlieb is able to make links among the major world religions and otherworldviews, showing how environmental sensitivity and ecologicalspirituality transcend any one faith and are essential parts of what it isto be human. True, the book has an American bias (all the 'nature writers'in the first section are American, if you count John Muir as such), but thereadings in other sections are international enough to compensate for anyminor parochialism. ... Read more