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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 …
Creative Experiences For Environmental Awareness, Including A Simulated Camp: Thematic Units For Grades Three And Four, Carol Ann Waitman
Creative Experiences For Environmental Awareness, Including A Simulated Camp: Thematic Units For Grades Three And Four, Carol Ann Waitman
Theses Digitization Project
The project is an activity based, interdisciplinary curriculum for a simulated outdoor camp that occurs primarily within the elementary classroom. The purpose of the camp is to increase the students' level of awareness of and appreciation for the outdoors.
More Than Trees: An Interdisciplinary, Literature-Based Unit, Emphasizing Drama And Hands-On Activities, Tracee Joanne Vickery
More Than Trees: An Interdisciplinary, Literature-Based Unit, Emphasizing Drama And Hands-On Activities, Tracee Joanne Vickery
Theses Digitization Project
This guide was developed to provide a hands-on, interdisciplinary curriculum, based on children's literature for grades four through six. It is a resource for teachers incorporating environmental education into their regular curriculum, revolving around a common theme, trees.