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phibians and crustaceans. We learn about mammals and birds when we look at the desert, about worms and spiders when we study top soil. Everything is viewed in relationship to habitat and other living things that share that habitat." Baines explained.
By keying on relationships, she impresses her kids with how critical it is for man to protect his environment—his continued life on earth depends on that protection.
Conservation is emphasized in section on pollution—water, air, land, noise and over-population. Seventh graders learn about the use and replacement of trees in lessons on renewable resources and in looking at non-renewable resources, study endangered and extinct species.
She stresses that everyone is part of the problem. The kids are asked to weigh the family trash and to put socks over the exhaust pipes of automobiles in a graphic demonstration of how the combustion engine adds to air pollution. They count the electrical appliances in their homes to learn how the energy demands of their own households.
“I try to make them aware that with pollution and conservation, we’re not talking about other people. We’re talking about us,”
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