General Motors and Weekly Reader are distributing an adapted adaptation of their average academy classroom curriculum, "The Energy Highway - Solutions Ahead," which aims to advice acceptance accept the activity challenges adverse association today and some of the abeyant solutions to those challenges. To admire GM's 100th anniversary, this year's class aswell appearance a new affiche admit that explores noteworthy technologies of the endure aeon as able-bodied as a attending at approaching automotive technologies.
Detroit, MI -- General Motors and Weekly Reader are distributing an adapted adaptation of their average academy classroom curriculum, "The Energy Highway - Solutions Ahead," which aims to advice acceptance accept the activity challenges adverse association today and some of the abeyant solutions to those challenges. To admire GM's 100th anniversary, this year's class aswell appearance a new affiche admit that explores noteworthy technologies of the endure aeon as able-bodied as a attending at approaching automotive technologies. The class packet aswell includes a teacher's adviser with reproducible apprentice activities, an added classroom bank poster, and advisory student/parent booklets. Online amateur for acceptance are aswell accessible at gm.com/education.
"As all-around activity demands abide to increase, GM is committed to accomplishing its allotment to action solutions by developing cars that can be powered by abounding altered activity sources including E85 ethanol, diesel, electricity and hydrogen," said Elizabeth A. Lowery, GM carnality president, Environment, Energy and Safety Policy. "Young humans today accept an befalling to be allotment of the movement that develops solutions to these activity issues, and GM's charge to apprenticeship in the areas of math, science and technology is aimed at auspicious them to be a allotment of that effort."
Interest in ecology apprenticeship is growing. A July 30, 2008, USA Today article, "Environmental Education Gets a Green Light," appear that agents are amalgam acquaint on the ambiance into their circadian apprenticeship plan. However, abounding agents are not able with the accoutrement all-important to bigger advise ecology apprenticeship through textbooks. The Environmental Literacy Council acclaimed in its 2007 address blue-blooded "Energy Literacy: Are Middle School Textbooks 'Making the Grade'?" that a lot of textbooks were advised as just "adequate" in energy-related education, hence, the charge for added materials.
"We partnered with General Motors to brainwash and acquaint acceptance on must-know activity capacity like addition ammunition sources and the appulse of activity acceptance on the environment," said Mary Ellen McLaughlin, publisher, Weekly Reader Custom Publishing. "Today's average academy acceptance are the activity consumers of the future. What they apprentice now can accept a absolute aftereffect on the ambiance in the years to come."
The Energy Highway: Solutions Ahead class was created and well-received in its barrage year (2007-08). Close to two-thirds of agents that acclimated the affairs appear that their acceptance bigger accepted the issues and challenges surrounding activity and were absolutely added abreast about the abeyant of application assorted and renewable activity resources.
GM and Weekly Reader accept partnered in the accomplished on added classroom class focused on assorted ambiance and activity capacity including ammunition cells, hydrogen, and E85 ethanol. The average academy science class amalgamation on E8 5 booze won a 2007 Distinguished Achievement Award from the Association of Educational Publishers. These added assets can be begin at gm.com/education.
General Motors Corp. (NYSE: GM), the world's better automaker, has been the anniversary all-around industry sales baton for 77 years. Founded in 1908, GM today employs about 266,000 humans about the world. With all-around address in Detroit, GM articles its cars and trucks in 35 countries. In 2007, about 9.37 actor GM cars and trucks were awash globally beneath the afterward brands: Buick, Cadillac, Chevrolet, GMC, GM Daewoo, Holden, HUMMER, Opel, Pontiac, Saab, Saturn, Vauxhall and Wuling. GM's OnStar accessory is the industry baton in car safety, aegis and advice services. More advice on GM can be begin at www.gm.com.
Weekly Reader Custom Publishing is the accustomed baton in developing different educational programs sponsored by corporations, nonprofit associations and government agencies.
Weekly Reader Publishing Group, founded in 1902, is a baton in educational publishing. Weekly Reader® publishes 15 magazines and a array of added added articles that reinforce curriculum, advice agents accommodated standards, and appoint students. Every one of the magazines has won awards for arete in educational journalism. Weekly Reader Publishing Group is allotment of the Reader's Digest Association, Inc.
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