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Direct linkCenter on the Developing Child at Harvard University, 2024
Water is essential for life. The brain, heart, kidneys, and lungs require continued hydration to function, and our bodies need water for digestion, nutrient absorption, blood distribution, and so much more. While water comprises around 60% of the adult body, 75% of infants' bodies are water. Children also drink more water per pound of body weight…
Descriptors: Child Development, Water, Water Quality, Natural Resources
Annie McMahon Whitlock – Teachers College Press, 2024
This book uses the water crisis in Flint, Michigan, as a touchstone for the importance and value of including place-based education in the social studies curriculum. Whitlock scrutinizes this local environmental issue to not only drive critical inquiry in the classroom, but also to show how the curriculum can propel valuable social change in the…
Descriptors: Social Studies, Place Based Education, Teacher Attitudes, Parent Attitudes
Peer reviewedKaren M. Collier; Katherine McCance; Sarah Jackson; Ana Topliceanu; Margaret R. Blanchard; Richard A. Venditti – Journal of Chemical Education, 2023
As the use of plastics expands, microplastic concentrations increase in aquatic environments and negatively impact water, soil, and animals inhabiting these areas. Microplastic research frequently incorporates citizen science to assist in data collection and environmental education. These projects provide opportunities for greater societal…
Descriptors: Plastics, Citizen Participation, Scientific Research, Science and Society
Download full textDuffy, Mark; Lapp, David – Research for Action, 2020
Long before closures due to the coronavirus pandemic, many Pennsylvania schools faced a different health crisis: unsafe facilities. Crumbling buildings, asbestos, lead, and other school facility health and safety risks plague many schools across Pennsylvania, particularly in low-income districts and those that enroll a high percentage of Black and…
Descriptors: Educational Facilities, School Safety, School Buildings, Economically Disadvantaged
Elizabeth Sumida Huaman – International Journal of Human Rights Education, 2017
This article focuses on the relationship between Indigenous places, rights, and education. In the context of the Peruvian Andes, historical ideological impositions reveal the trajectory of environmental exploitation, which have contributed to major ecological threats that collectively contribute to the aggressive re-making of the Andean world as…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Indigenous Knowledge, Indigenous Populations, Civil Rights
Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics, 2017
This report is a compendium of indicators about our Nation's young people. The report, the 20th produced by the Forum, presents 41 key indicators on important aspects of children's lives. These indicators are drawn from the most reliable Federal statistics, are easily understood by broad audiences, are objectively based on substantial research,…
Descriptors: Well Being, Child Health, Family Environment, Social Environment
