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Chapter 1 { Digital Earth Watch Contents } Of our five senses, sight provides near-instantaneous information over a large range of distances and space. So it is no coincidence that people use a plethora of images to convey a rich variety of data: photographs, maps, drawings, paintings, movies, text documents, signs, etc. With the inventions […]

The Digital Earth Watch (DEW) project grew from a NASA grant project titled Measuring Vegetation Health. Its goal was to teach about how monitoring the health of vegetation can be done at various scales: from individual plants to large scale ecosystems. See Overview. Contents Chapters Investigations Challenges 1. Digital Image Basics 1.1 How Is Light […]

{ To Index of GSS Books } Self-Organizing Systems: A Unifying Paradigm for Science Education  Richard Golden and Cary Sneider April, 2013 Nature, in the systems view, is a sphere of complex and delicate organization. Systems communicate with systems and form supersystems. Strands of order appear and out of increasingly complex levels of organization novel properties […]

{ All GSS Books } Implications for Achieving Science Literacy by Dr. Cary I. Sneider, Vice President for ProgramsMuseum of Science, Science Park, Boston, MA 02114-1099 Presented at the International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS 2000, IEEE) Conference in Honolulu, Hawaii, July 24-28, 2000. In the post-Sputnik era the goal of science education in the United […]

{ All GSS Books } Frequently Asked Questions How do I get and implement GSS? Are there PDF versions of the GSS books that are better for printing?    Is GSS up to date/How does GSS stay up to date? Answers:  If I have suggestions for improvement, find errors, or notice issues (links that don’t […]

Staying current for Chapter 8 See non-chronological resources { Population Growth Contents } 2025-06-23. The MTV Reality Star in Trump’s Cabinet Who Wants You to Have More Kids. By Caroline Kitchener, The New York Times. Excerpt: …Over three decades, Americans have watched him evolve from a sex-hungry 25-year-old on MTV’s “The Real World,” gyrating with […]

Staying current for Chapter 7 { Population Growth Contents } 2022-07-01. For scientists, Roe’s end raises concerns about personal safety and professional choices. [https://www.science.org/content/article/scientists-roe-s-end-raises-concerns-about-personal-safety-and-professional-choices] By Katie Langin, Science Magazine. Excerpt: When the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade on 24 June, eliminating the constitutional right to an abortion and handing decisions about abortion access to state legislators, the […]

2025-09-07. Patagonia Changed the Apparel Business. Can It Change Food, Too? By David Gelles, The New York Times. Excerpt: …Paul Lightfoot …general manager of Patagonia Provisions, ..believes that Kernza, a type of wheatgrass that can be used for baking and brewing, has the potential to change the food system. [Deep} roots are what makes Kernza […]

Staying current for Chapter 4 See non-chronological resources { Population Growth Contents } 2024-04-02. Population tipping point could arrive by 2030. [https://www.science.org/content/article/population-tipping-point-could-arrive-2030] By TYLER SANTORA, Science. Excerpt: Two point one: That’s how many children everyone able to give birth must have to keep the human population from beginning to fall. Demographers have long expected the […]

Staying current for Chapter 3 { Population Growth Contents } 2026-10-09. How to live to 194. By ScienceAdvisor. Excerpt: On an island in the South Atlantic Ocean, the world’s oldest known land animal spends his days munching on fresh fruit and veggies, sunbathing, napping, and getting frisky with the other members of his bisexual throuple. […]