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Integrating Environmental Education Into The Curriculum Through Environmental Community Service Learning, Jay Allen Westover
Integrating Environmental Education Into The Curriculum Through Environmental Community Service Learning, Jay Allen Westover
Theses Digitization Project
The goal of environmental education is to increase individuals' ecological knowledge, awareness of associated environmental problems, and motivation to evaluate and implement solutions. This project combined the concepts of environmental education with community service learning to create a new method of curriculum integration: environmental community service learning. The California state standards for environmental education, service learning, language arts, mathematics, science, and social studies were integrated into four thematic units using the teaching methodologies of cooperative learning, authentic assessment, and reflection. The integrated, thematic units of this project could be used by educators in a multi-disciplinary, team teaching scenario on in …
An Environmental Education Field Guide For Mystic Lake Wetland Habitats, Linda Jean Ellingston
An Environmental Education Field Guide For Mystic Lake Wetland Habitats, Linda Jean Ellingston
Theses Digitization Project
This curriculum guide is for grades four through six. It examines how wetlands, wildlife, and people interact and depend upon each other. The San Jacinto Valley wetland area is used as an example of wetland habitat destruction from population pressures that have changed the natural landscape. It is also used as an example of what habitat reconstruction can do to restore vital habitats. Through student contact with the wetlands increased awareness of the fragile interrelationships between the physical and biological components of a wetland habitat is gained. Students can use ecological themes to help them assimilate collected and given data …
Teaching And Learning In The School Garden, Elizabeth Lynn Waddell
Teaching And Learning In The School Garden, Elizabeth Lynn Waddell
Theses Digitization Project
This project was created to encourage educators to establish school site gardens. Gardens provide the opportunity to introduce environmental topics, and can become hands-on learning centers for subjects across the course of study.