Frequently Asked Questions Thousands of web sites for educators and students. Support for long-term classroom planning and professional development. Information covering important topics for today's educators and parents. This CD-ROM and accompanying user's guide provides students with a computer lab simulation in which they investigate and learn about seven environmental issues through self paced independent field studies. Seven program modules include radiation in the environment, legal control of the environment, and stream pollution as well as geology of homesite selection, energy from coal, minerals for society, and floods and streams.
Students begin each investigation by learning about the requirements of their imaginary job.
For example, upon choosing radiation in the environment, students are hired as county health department radiation experts. Through job descriptions, they are also given the questions that they need to answer with an overview of the environment issue. To meet their given job requirements, students are encouraged to learn related theoretical background such as types and sources of radiation, average annual radiation exposure, and radiation measuring devices as well as types of radiation protection. In each tutorial section, Information Access Buttons provide students with additional information such as Reference Notes, Audio and Picture, Animation, Search, Map, and Help. For example, when students visit the radiation measuring devices tutorial page, they can see how a Geiger Counter works.