I've had good feedback from students in my ecology and conservation
biology classes about spending the first few minutes of each class on
some story in the news that relates to the class. Comments from the
students suggested that they appreciated my effort to show them how
the material they were learning related to life outside the classroom.
Environmental Health News, which is put out daily and you can get in
an e-mail message, is one good source for such stories. Here's a
link to today's issue:
<http://newsletters.environmentalhealthnews.org/read/archive?id=5587&mid=42231&e=inouye%40umd%2eedu&x=8b49b2cb>http://newsletters.environmentalhealthnews.org/read/archive?id=5587&mid=42231&e=inouye%40umd%2eedu&x=8b49b2cb
David Inouye
