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UW-SP’s Preservice

EE Program

Natural Resources 370

Introduction to

Environmental Studies &

Environmental Education

Offered by College of Natural ResourcesCollaboration w/School of Education

Junior-level. 3 credits

Addresses 7 competencies -

4 Content (lecture):• Content (lecture). Knowledge of:

– Natural resources and their conservation

– Interactions between living & nonliving

Content, cont.

– Energy and its transformations

– Local, national, global interactions of people with environment

Three Gorges Dam

3 Methods (Discussion)

– Ability to use affective education methods

– Ability to infuse EE into subjects

– Knowledge of ways to resolve environmental

problems

Lecture Format

• 2 hours/week

• Text. Cunningham/Cunningham. Principles of Env. Sci.

• Topics– Root causes of issues (e.g., exponential growth)

– Environmental history

– Ecology

– Population

– Biodiversity

– Water

– Waste

– Air/Atmospheric issues

– Energy

Discussion format

• 2 hours/week

• Electronic readings (no text)

• Separate sections for ECE/Elementary & Secondary

• Common elements

– Goals of EE (Tbilisi, 1977)

– Infusion of EE into subjects

– Resource review (Guidelines for Excellence in EE)

– Peer teaching (WILD, PLT, WET)

Review of syllabi

Strengths of approach?

Drawbacks of approach?

How do we bridge the gap to

non-science methods courses?

TOPIC

English Language

Arts

Social

Studies

Natural

Sciences

Math

Physical

Education

Family &

Consumer Ed.

Foreign

Languages

Art &

Music

Agriculture

Technology

Education