Dendrochronology provides opportunities to relate environmental change to growth patterns of trees and can show students both how scientists investigate the past and how the environment can affect trees. At a small rural high school in the Deep South where forestry is a major industry, twenty five high school students participated in a mixed methods research project to determine if dendrochronology would promote understanding of environmental change. The intervention consisted of a ten day unit that employed a set of learning activities to explore environmental change, climate change, and tree growth and concluded with student-created investigations of various aspects of the relationship of trees to their environment. The Wilcoxon matched-pair signed rank test showed significant growth in student performance (P < .01) and was supported by qualitative evaluation that revealed that the students greatly enjoyed creating their own investigations. These activities can provide a new way to engage students in learning about environmental change of the past and the present.
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Since the democratic transition in 1994 the South African government has committed to take on the challenge of acting as a moral agent architect for its citizens. The book is written through the lens of a feminist analysis on land tenure security. It is a well narrated and research project. It includes an analysis of various acclaimed academic authors who hold the knowledge concerning land, gender and tenure security in South Africa. The book has insights on customary law, traditional authority and the conflict and challenges that arise due to the allocation of land to woman, challenges on woman's rights to own and administer land spark a lengthy debate. The government need to build a relationship regarding indigenous traditional customs and western models of democratic systems and create institution that will be dedicated to gender related issues. Women rights should be protected and recognised especially concerning land tenure. security.The government of South Africa should critically assess its land reform policies and needs to constantly create harmony between what has been a divided society, even in their modern policies.
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