Environmental Science: Sustaining Your World: Sustaining Your World

by G. Tyler Miller Jr., Scott Spoolman

Environmental Sustaining Your World was created specifically for your high school environmental science course. With a central theme of sustainability included throughout, authors G. Tyler Miller and Scott Spoolman have focused content and included student activities on the core environmental issues of today while incorporating current research on solutions-based outcomes. National Geographic images and graphics support the text, while National Geographic Explorers and scientists who are working in the field to solve environmental issues of all kinds tell their stories of how real science and engineering practices are used to solve real-world environmental problems. Ensure that your students learn critical thinking skills to evaluate all sides of environmental issues while gaining knowledge of the Core Ideas from the NGSS and applying that knowledge to real science and engineering practices and activities.

Genres: Science

544 pages, Hardcover

First published February 8, 2016

About the author

G. Tyler Miller Jr. has written or co-authored 60 editions of various textbooks for introductory courses in environmental science, basic ecology, energy, and environmental chemistry. Since 1975, Miller's books have been the most widely used textbooks for environmental science in the United States and throughout the world. Miller has a PhD from the University of Virginia and has received two honorary doctorate degrees for his contributions to environmental education. He taught college for 20 years and developed an innovative interdisciplinary undergraduate science program before deciding to write environmental science textbooks full time in 1975.