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Source: Microsoft Clip Art
Source: Alex Shogren; Oregon Coast
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Rooted in Education;
Rooted in Community
Rooted in Education
rooted in communitySource: Microsoft Clip Art
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Environmental Education Environmental Education is
humanity’s oldest way of learning: gaining knowledge of natural,
social, and economic systems
through observation and collaboration in order to
live successfully in the real world. 1
1 www.eeaw.org, 2004 Report Card on the Status of Environmental Education in Washington State as requested by the Washington State Legislature, pg 18
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WAC 180-50-115 (2000) 1
“[I]nstruction about conservation, natural resources, and the environment shall be provided at all grades in an interdisciplinary manner through science, the social studies, the humanities, and other areas with an emphasis on solving problems of human adaptation to the environment.”
1 http://policy.nthurston.k12.wa.us
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WA State Report Card
Effectiveness of EE in improving Student’s Standardized Test Scores.……A
Legal and Academic Foundations of EE……………..……….…...A
Independent, Innovative Approaches to EE….………………..….A
General Awareness of EE…………………….…………….…...C
State Support of EE……….……………………………….……D
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Comments• “EE is an important subject; however, the current
WASL environment…limits opportunities for a structured and consistent EE scheduling” ~RMS Science Teacher
• “Not my area of focus.” ~RMS Block Teacher
• “I haven’t heard ‘J’ mention any EE that I can think of…even when they studied Geology. They didn’t talk about any local geology or rock outcroppings.” ~RMS Parent
• “The leave [EE] at the elementary school level with recycling and stuff, there is no theory or building of why it’s important.” ~RMS Parent
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Challenges
EE utilizedas an
Effective Learning Tool
RESULTS
Behavior
Behavior
ApathyApathy Learning AbilityLearning Ability
UnawareUnaware
SUCCESSFUL SUCCESSFUL LEARNINGLEARNING
INCREASEDINCREASED
ATTENTIVENESSATTENTIVENESS
DECREASED BEHAVIORALDECREASED BEHAVIORAL
CHALLENGESCHALLENGES
INCREASED TESTINCREASED TEST
SCORESSCORES
AWARE AWARE CITIZENSCITIZENS
ENGAGED LEARNINGENGAGED LEARNING
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Resources Local Resources
~Komachin Middle School~Tumwater Elementary School~Chehalis Basin Education Consortium
Literature ~ Last Child in the Woods, Richard Louv~ Place-Based Education, David Sobel~project WILD, Western Association of Fish and Wildlife
Agencies & Western Regional Environmental Education Council
On-Line Resources~Environmental Education Association of WA;
www.eeaw.org~Pacific Education Institute;
www.pacificeducationinstitute.org ~NW Environmental Education Council; www.nweec.org
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Rooted in Education;
Rooted in Community
Rooted in Education
rooted in communitySource: Microsoft Clip Art