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Striving for an environmentallyoriented curriculum in junior high school art, this resource booklet for teachers offers numerous suggestions for incorporating environmental learnings into the arts curriculum.{. Ideas presented are examples of hoy learning in art can be directed in ways that lead to increased awareness and perception of the environment and the treatment of problems in'that environment.. Section I deals with Art as Environmental Education, defining objectives and resources/materials for projects. Art and Ideast, Section II, considers the language of design (word definitions), the concept of beauty, and the growth of an idea in art, while Section III, Relating Art to Nature and the Man-Made Environment, covers designing from nature.. Section IV deals with Values: Expression Through Art, and describes several exemplary projects. Communication witrin the physical environment of th