MEEC Online » Library http://www.meeconline.com MEEC Fri, 03 Feb 2012 00:35:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Kids As Planners-Service Learning http://www.meeconline.com/kids-as-planners-service-learning/ http://www.meeconline.com/kids-as-planners-service-learning/#comments Fri, 29 Jul 2011 00:52:05 +0000 Christie http://www.meeconline.com/?p=1426 This book provides educators and school administrators with a roadmap for integrating service-learning into their classes and curriculum. By engaging students in real-world problem-solving, service learning helps expand content knowledge, engage students and teachers, foster good citizenship, and the needs of diverse learners. Includes how to discover “needs and problems”, investigate problems, research solutions, decide on a project, plan the project, implement the plan, evalutate impacts, curriculum, instruction, and assessment.

Published by KIDS Consortium. 122 pages.

]]> http://www.meeconline.com/kids-as-planners-service-learning/feed/ 0 Van de Graaff Generator http://www.meeconline.com/van-de-graaff-generator/ http://www.meeconline.com/van-de-graaff-generator/#comments Wed, 30 Jun 2010 20:51:44 +0000 Christie http://www.meeconline.com/?p=1030 A Van de Graaff generator is a device designed to create static electricity and make it available for experimentation. There are two kinds of generators; one that uses a high-voltage power supply for charging and one that uses belts and rollers for charging. The Van de Graaff generators available through MEEC are made up of:

A motor; two rollers; a belt; two brush assemblies; and an output terminal (usually a metal or aluminum sphere).

When the motor is turned on, the lower roller (charger) begins turning the belt. Since the belt is made of rubber and the lower roller is covered in silicon tape, the lower roller begins to build a negative charge and the belt builds a positive charge. You can understand why this charge imbalance occurs by looking at the triboelectric series: Silicon is more negative than rubber; therefore, the lower roller is capturing electrons from the belt as it passes over the roller.

There is a generator at both the AV Library and the Victorville Library.

]]> http://www.meeconline.com/van-de-graaff-generator/feed/ 0 The Lorax http://www.meeconline.com/the-lorax/ http://www.meeconline.com/the-lorax/#comments Thu, 25 Mar 2010 23:43:53 +0000 Christie http://www.meeconline.com/?p=940 When this book was written in 1971, it sent forth a clarion call-to industry and consumers alike-to conserve the earth’s precious and finite natural resources. The message of this whimiscal yet powerful tale resonates today more profoundly than ever. In every corner of the world, we are at risk of losing real-life Brown Bar-ba-loots, Swomee-Swans, Humming-Fish, Truffula Trees, and the forests they all inhabit. This is the perfect book to read to students grades K-6 on Earth Day or National Dr. Seuss Read America Day.
Hard cover.
62 pages
Author: Dr. Seuss
1 copy each in Victorville and Antelope Valley

]]> http://www.meeconline.com/the-lorax/feed/ 0 The Green Book http://www.meeconline.com/the-green-book/ http://www.meeconline.com/the-green-book/#comments Thu, 25 Mar 2010 23:35:29 +0000 Christie http://www.meeconline.com/?p=937 The everyday guide to saving the planet one simple step at a time. Inside you will find hundreds of small choices you can make to have a big impact on the health of our planet. Wonderful tips and choices by such notables as Cameron Diaz, Ellen DeGeneres, Robert Redford, Faith Hill, Dale Earnhardt Jr., Martha Steward, and more. Topics cover recycling, travel, communication technology, school, work, shopping, health, sports, money and finance, building green, and going carbon neutral.
201 pages, softback.
Authors: Elizabeth Rogers and Thomas M. Kostigen
1 copy each available at Victoriville and Lancaster

]]> http://www.meeconline.com/the-green-book/feed/ 0 End Smog http://www.meeconline.com/end-smog/ http://www.meeconline.com/end-smog/#comments Thu, 27 Aug 2009 21:48:57 +0000 guest1 http://www.meeconline.com/end-smog/ From the California Environmental Protection Agency’s Air Resources Board

PSA running time: 1:20

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Seven copies at Antelope Valley and eight copies at Victorville branch.

]]> http://www.meeconline.com/going-places-making-choices-transportation-and-the-environment/feed/ 0 Secrets of Science-Planet Earth http://www.meeconline.com/secrets-of-science-planet-earth/ http://www.meeconline.com/secrets-of-science-planet-earth/#comments Thu, 27 Aug 2009 21:19:30 +0000 guest1 http://www.meeconline.com/secrets-of-science-planet-earth/ 48 mins.

This fascinating video features information on our planet’s unique charactersitics, pollution and global warming, waste, and earthquakes.

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13:00 min

]]> http://www.meeconline.com/methods-to-minimize-dust/feed/ 0 The Environmental SWAT Team http://www.meeconline.com/the-environmental-swat-team/ http://www.meeconline.com/the-environmental-swat-team/#comments Thu, 27 Aug 2009 21:17:52 +0000 guest1 http://www.meeconline.com/the-environmental-swat-team/ The New Explorers series

50 mins

]]> http://www.meeconline.com/the-environmental-swat-team/feed/ 0 The Haz-Kid Report http://www.meeconline.com/the-haz-kid-report/ http://www.meeconline.com/the-haz-kid-report/#comments Thu, 27 Aug 2009 21:17:13 +0000 guest1 http://www.meeconline.com/the-haz-kid-report/ San Bernardino County Environmetal Health

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