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Please call for more information. To ensure that these Guidelines for Excellence reflect a widely shared understanding of environmental education, they were developed by a team of environmental education professionals from a variety of backgrounds and organizational affiliations.
This team took on the challenge of turning ideas about environmental literacy into tangible recommendations and examples. In addition, drafts of these guidelines were circulated widely to practitioners and scholars in the field e.
As such, hundreds of practitioners have participated in the writing of these guidelines. About eePRO. Like 11 likes. Website: Guidelines for Excellence. Generally, compost is done in large bins or a heap outside. Next, I will lay down the basics of a small compost project that can be done whether you have a yard or not.
There are two major components to healthy compost: green stuff grass trimmings and food scraps that is rich in nitrogen and provides moisture needed to produce the healthy bacteria for which compost is known; and brown stuff dry leaves, nut shells, or recyclable paper that is rich in carbon and helps absorb some of that moisture.
For leaks and bad smells, add more brown stuff. Some people recommend having two sets of compost; while one is full and processing, you can start filling up the other. There is much work to do, but small shifts in awareness can go a long way. Being perfect is impossible, but we must always be better. I like to research the measures taken at state level. In Louisiana, old Christmas trees are collected and deposited along the Gulf Coast to combat wetland loss.
Everyone, including our young dreamers and innovators , needs to be held accountable. Upon realizing what our President-Elect promised to do to all of the hard work, heart, dedication, time, energy, money, fresh thought, and trust that went into recent advances in environmental studies, I knew it was my job to get busy. Fortunately, there are others who are busy fighting the good fight on a larger scale!
Used by hundreds of universities, non-profits, and businesses. Click to learn more. Based on Stanford's review, we have translated these findings into several communication tools for EE professionals to use to substantiate their work and bolster support for programming that benefits K students.
These tools include pull quotes, statistics, researcher observations, inspiring stories from across the field substantiated by empirical studies, and more that we hope you will find beneficial for demonstrating the benefits for K students in your work. Environmental education is about hope and change. There is a mountain of evidence that suggests EE is a powerful way to teach students.
Over studies found that it provides transformative learning opportunities that bring tremendous results and engage young people in the world around them in meaningful, collaborative ways. There is no doubt that environmental education is one of the most effective ways to instill a passion for learning among students.
Studies in the review demonstrated that environmental education has led to a number of positive impacts, from improving academic performance, to enhancing critical thinking skills, to developing personal growth and life-building skills including confidence, autonomy, and leadership. Dozens of peer-reviewed studies found environmental education has a positive academic impact. Because children are often naturally interested in and curious about the environment, environmental education can be an effective tool to teach an array of topics.
Studies documented that students gained knowledge in a variety of areas, including the environment, mathematics, chemistry, biology, ecology, and more. Environmental education creates a meaningful learning experiences and engages students in ways that help them grasp and retain new information more effectively than conventional curricula. Environmental education imparts more than knowledge. It has been shown to develop academic skills, such as critical thinking, decision-making, and synthesizing complex information.
Environmental education has helped produce effective problem solvers, lifelong learners, and thoughtful community leaders and participants. In fact, a dozen peer-reviewed articles found environmental education had positive civic outcomes, such as instilling a sense of personal responsibility and motivation to address community and environmental issues. The emotional and social skill-related benefits that a number of studies in the review documented include self-esteem, autonomy, character development, maturity, empowerment, verbal communication, leadership, poise, and the ability to collaborate with others.
They gain skills in making a differences and an intrinsic belief that they can. The confidence and empowerment can spill over into other aspects of their lives. Environmental education helps teachers meet standards across multiple disciplines, and it can be integrated into existing curricula.
A high school in Illinois successfully used environmental education to develop critical 21st Century skills. Students in the program significantly outscored their peers in applying knowledge from science, technology, engineering, and math, and in mastery of critical thinking, environmental literacy, leadership, and communication skills. Environmental education empowers students to protect the environment.
More than 80 percent of the programs studied that seek to inspire students to engage in environmentally friendly behavior were successful; in cases where longer-term outcomes were measured, the impacts were long lasting. In their comprehensive review of the literature, Stanford researchers found a number of trends that demonstrate environmental education has a very positive impact on learning, motivation, skill-building, and empowerment.
And the impact on both students and teachers is impressive. Also noteworthy was the range of environmental education programs being conducted with students. The review suggests that the versatility of environmental education can contribute to a number of different outcomes across a broad spectrum of learning styles. Here are a few highlights:.
When are we going to finish? Stanford's research team focused on peer-reviewed literature that empirically measured K student outcomes associated with environmental education and was published in English between and Over 2, publication records were reviewed for consideration of inclusion in the review. The final sample consisted of articles that met criteria for relevancy and basic quality. Findings from the analysis and team review of the articles were synthesized to provide a summary of the research and to discuss trends in EE research around K student outcomes.
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