Education - Science education (Elementary)

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This is the definition for environmental education as determined by the Ontario Ministry of Education:

Environmental education is education about the environment, for the environment, and in the environment that promotes an understanding of, rich and active experience in, and an appreciation for the dynamic interactions of:

The Earth’s physical and biological systems
The dependency of our social and economic systems on these natural systems
The scientific and human dimensions of environmental issues
The positive and negative consequences, both intended and unintended, of the
Interactions between human-created and natural systems.

--from Shaping our schools, shaping our future: environmental education in Ontario schools, 2007, p.6.

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"From an educational perspective, science learning and environmental understanding effectively complement each other in two ways:

The environment context can improve science learning
Learning science can improve the ability of students to deal with environmental issues.

Another way of putting this is that studying science in the context of the environment is doubly productive. If shows how scientific knowledge and ways of thinking, coupled with the process of making decisions about our collective interaction with nature, can illuminate each other to the advantage of both."

-- from: Resources for Environmental Literacy by Environmental Literacy Council, National Science Teachers Association, p.xiii. (507.1 Res 2007)

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Keywords and subject headings to use in a database search, such as in ERIC, include:elementary, environmental education, outdoor education, science, science and society, sustainability, and ecology.

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Based on an account of how two classes of primary five students in Singapore engage in the learning of English, Mathematics and Science by playing the role of global citizens, the paper suggests an alternative but realistic approach to teaching global citizenship education. Set against the back story of Atlantis facing ecological, social and cultural decay due to the blind pursuit of prosperity and modernisation by its rulers, each student became a quester called on to save Atlantis. - from abstract

Keywords and subject headings to use when searching the catalogue about this topic, include: environmental education, outdoor education.

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