UW-SP’s Preservice EE Program
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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
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