Environmental Education Curriculum Development, Grade 6, For St. Martin Parish.

This environmental education curriculum guide is designed for teacher use in the sixth grade. It contains seven units that aim to help the students acquire basic understanding of environmental relationships, environmental problems, environmental quality and to help the students develop skills to solve current environmental problems. Each unit, based on several concepts, includes objectives, activities, student work sheets, discussion questions, resource materials and vocabulary words. The techniques of discussion, observation, classification, discovery, inquiry, and field work are employed. The guide includes the following units: Unit 1, environmental relationships; Unit 2, soil conservation; Unit 3, air pollution; Unit 4, the hydrosphere; Unit 5, wildlife and related problems; Unit 6, mineral resources; and Unit 7, pesticide problems. (TK)