Energy, Environment, and Health

CONTENTS OF CURRICULUM UNIT 12.07.01

  1. Unit Guide
  1. Introduction
  2. Rationale for Unit
  3. Context
  4. Objectives
  5. Strategies
  6. Assessment
  7. Background
  8. Classroom Activities
  9. Implementing Common Core State Standards
  10. Public Service Announcement Rubric
  11. Teacher Background Reading List:
  12. List of MARS Tasks Used as Formative Assessments
  13. PSA Storyboard

Quantifying Solutions to Reduce Our Food's Environmental Impact

Anne E. Agostinelli

Published September 2012

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Teacher Background Reading List:

Quantifying Solutions to Reduce Our Food's Environmental Impact

Campbell, T. Colin, and Thomas M. Campbell. The China study: the most comprehensive study of nutrition ever conducted and the startling implications for diet, weight loss and long-term health. Dallas, Tex.: BenBella Books, 2005.

Desoete, Annemie, and Marcel Veenman. Metacognition in mathematics education. New York: Nova Science Publishers, 2006.

Estabrook, Barry. Tomatoland: how modern industrial agriculture destroyed our most alluring fruit. Kansas City: Andrews McMeel Publishing, 2011.

Ferguson, Charles D.. Nuclear energy: balancing benefits and risks. New York: Council on Foreign Relations, 2007.

Ferguson, Charles D.. Nuclear energy: what everyone needs to know. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011.

Hicks, J. Morris, and J. Stanfield Hicks. Healthy eating, healthy world unleashing the power of plant-based nutrition. Dallas, Tex.: BenBella Books, 2011.

Karlan, Dean S., and Jacob Appel. More than good intentions: improving the ways the world's poor borrow, save, farm, learn, and stay healthy. New York: Plume, 2011.

Leach, Gerald. Energy and food production. Guildford [Eng.: IPC Science and Technology Press for the International Institute for Environment and Development, 1976.

Mougeot, Luc J. A.. Agropolis: the social, political, and environmental dimensions of urban agriculture. Ottawa, Canada: International Development Research Centre ;, 2005.

Pimentel, David, and Marcia Pimentel. Food, energy, and society. Rev. ed. Niwot, Co.: University Press of Colorado, 1996.

Polya, George. How to solve it; a new aspect of mathematical method.. 2d ed. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1957.

Scott, Dane. Debating science: deliberation, values, and the common good. Amherst, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 2011.

Wargo, John. Our children's toxic legacy how science and law fail to protect us from pesticides. 2nd ed. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1998.

Wargo, John. Green intelligence: creating environments that protect human health. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2009.

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