Session Eight
Environmental Education I:
Definition, Theory & Practice
Class
Discussion
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This class will
primarily focus upon the history of environmental education in the U.S. and it's future
prospects. |
Readings |
Text
Readings:
David Orr, Ecological
Literacy, Chapter 5 to the completion of the text.
Web
Readings:
Environmental
Education in the United States |
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Writing
Assignment |
Writing
Assignment Three Due Today! Now's the Time to be planning for Writing
Assignment Four. |
Web
Board:
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Discussion Questions:
- What is environmental education and
why do we need it?
- What is the status of environmental
education in the United States?
- Briefly describe the National
Environmental Education Act of 1990.
- Briefly describe recommendation
number
five.
Post your discussion question
responses on Web Board for Session 8. |
Field Trip |
Field trip # 4 on
Sustainable Development is due to be reported nest week. You will be posting your
field trip report on the Web Board when you
complete your trip next week. |
Journal Writing |
Journal due this week
Oct. 11! Send a
photocopy of your journal to:
Terry Wimberley, Ph.D.
College of Arts and
Sciences
10501 FGCU Boulevard South
Fort Myers, FL 33965-6565 |
Final Project |
Please post to the web
board four of your annotated web bibliographies for me to review. The newspapers are
always doing articles about how U.S. students are under-performing compared to students in
other developing nations. These articles and their supporting research suggest that
our public school curriculum fails students because it focuses upon
environment kinds of
courses to apply science and math concepts that more narrowly teaching content courses in
the math and sciences. You might look in the paper, magazines, and on the web for
position statements on this issue and put them in your journal along with your comments. |
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