DEADLINE PAST - - - FIRST DRAFT of Environmental Education Materials: Guidelines for Excellence
We need your help and input!!! The Environmental Education Materials: Guidelines for Excellence were first published in 1996 and have been updated about every five years since then. We are in the process of revising these guidelines once again. The process is iterative. Our writing team developed a first draft. We invite you to review this draft and provide comments that will be used in the revision process.
This set of guidelines describes recommendations for developing and selecting environmental education instructional resources. They aim to help producers of activity guides, lesson plans, and other instructional materials create high quality products and to provide educators with a tool to evaluate the wide array of available environmental education materials.
HOW YOU CAN HELP:
Download and review the draft (Word document - From the upper right hand corner of this page)
Use track changes or embed your comments in the draft (please use a contrasting color so your comments can be found easily)
Complete the response form (Word document - From the upper right hand corner of this page) and
Email your comments to borasimmons@gmail.com by December 23, 2019.
When people gather with friends, neighbors, and fellow community members to deliberate on shared problems, they often report that they are exposed to ideas and perspectives they hadn’t previously entertained. They also often say that they leave the deliberative forums, not with completely changed minds, but “thinking differently” nonetheless. In this blog posting from the Kettering Foundation, read more about some of the reactions from participants in 25 online forums focusing on climate change choices.
With the publication earlier this year of the K-12 Environmental Education: Guidelines for Excellence (2019), we've created two documents that provide insight into the linkages between environmental literacy and the Next Generation Science Standards and the C3 College, Career, and Civic Life Framework.
A series of crosswalks that explore the linkages between environmental literacy as articulated in the K-12 Environmental Education: Guidelines for Excellence (2019) and the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS).
How environmental education is conceptualized and implemented in elementary and secondary schools is critical if we are to meet our ultimate goal of environmental literacy. When all of the cross-references between the national standards and the environmental literacy framework as articulated in the Guidelines for Learning (K-12) are taken together, distinct patterns emerge. Learn more.
How environmental education is conceptualized and implemented in elementary and secondary schools is critical if we are to meet our ultimate goal of environmental literacy.
The Michigan Alliance for Environmental and Outdoor Education (MAEOE) has taken the plunge and officially Adopted the Guidelines! What does that mean? Well, I'll let MAEOE speak for itself "By adopting them, we help move our organization's mission forward to promote environmental literacy. Currently, we already consciously promote the Guidelines through our EE certification program - which is in its fourth year."
From Stacie Molnar-Main - Shared by the National Issues Forums Institute
The introduction to deliberation webinar is now available as part of the Pennsylvania School Heath Spotlights series. It is designed to introduce teachers to promising practices that reinforce healthy and safe school climates, especially those using deliberation in the classroom. It is well grounded in k-12 teachers’ research.
Keystone Science School is partnering with Thorne Nature Experience to provide outdoor education and adventure experiences for Lafayette, Colorado students in 5th-12th grade. Over 3-days and 2-nights students hike on local public land trails in White River National Forest as they learn experientially about their surrounding environment. We used the Community Engagement: Guidelines for Excellence to evaluate areas of strength and areas of growth for the NKJN program at Keystone Science School.
Issue guides provide the overall framework for the deliberative discussion and help forum participants focus on alternative courses of action. Key to creating an issue guide is how it is framed - how the issue is defined and what alternative courses of actions are presented.
Here you will find some resources to help you name and frame your own issues for deliberation.
