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Excellence in Environmental Education
— Guidelines for Learning (Pre K-12)
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INTRODUCTION
Excellence in Environmental Education Guidelines for Learning
(Pre K-12) (revised 2004) provides students, parents, educators, home
schoolers, policy makers, and the public a set of common, voluntary guidelines
for environmental education. The guidelines support state and local environmental
education efforts by:
Setting expectations
for performance and achievement in fourth, eighth, and twelfth grades;
Suggesting a framework
for effective and comprehensive environmental education programs and
curricula;
Demonstrating how
environmental education can be used to meet standards set by the traditional
disciplines and to give students opportunities to synthesize knowledge
and experience across disciplines; and
Defining the aims
of environmental education.
These guidelines set
a standard for high-quality environmental education in schools across
the country, based on what an environmentally literate person should know
and be able to do. They draw on the best thinking in the field to outline
the core ingredients for environmental education.
The Guidelines for
Learning (Pre K-12) - Executive Summary & Self Assessment
Tool [pdf] is also available for use as an easy reference. As in the full
document, the Executive Summary is organized into four strands, each of
which is further delineated by a set of guidelines that describe a level
of skill or knowledge appropriate for each of three grade levels -
fourth, eighth, and twelfth. In the Executive Summary, guidelines for
a particular strand are arranged on two page layouts, so that the user
can quickly understand the flow of guidelines at a grade level or compare
how guidelines progress across the grade levels. It should be remembered
that the Executive Summary is designed to provide only an overview.
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