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Environmental Education

  • Discovering Diversity
    Introduces a preservice teacher field trip to the rain forests and coastal areas. This experience develops an awareness for different cultures among preservice teachers by experiencing biological and cultural diversity in Costa Rica.
  • Education for Sustainability: An Agenda for Action.
    Understanding the principles of sustainability and the interdependence of the environment, the economy, and social systems can help individuals learn to make the changes necessary to become effective stewards of natural resources and the environment. This document describes three broad policy recommendations as to how Americans can build concepts of sustainability into educational programs, and 12 strategic action plans for implementing those recommendations.
  • EE Reference Collection
    The goal of this reference collection is to make environmental education (EE) literature more accessible to practitioners in the field. The readings provide a context of theory and example to complement the suggestions and activities in the Toolbox Workshop Resource Manual.
  • EE Reference Collection
    The goal of this reference collection is to make environmental education (EE) literature more accessible to practitioners in the field. The readings provide a context of theory and example to complement the suggestions and activities in the Toolbox Workshop Resource Manual.
  • Hands-On Environmental Education Activities for K-6 Teachers
    This environmental education workbook is aimed at helping kindergarten through 6th-grade teachers and contains hands-on activities directly targeted toward a particular age group, with equal distribution to each grade. Subject area descriptions and several multicultural activities are also included.
  • Multicultural Environmental Education
    Discusses multicultural education and some of the confusion surrounding the philosophy, and explains how multicultural education fits into environmental education. Multicultural education respects diversity of ideas and experiences.
  • Norway: Charting a Course for the 21st Century. Teacher's Resource Guide
    This teaching unit is designed to present the Norwegian viewpoint on the importance of participation in the global community. Through its national policies and the efforts of countless citizens, modern Norway is making an urgent statement to the global community about the best course to follow for the planet's safe future.
  • Ordinary People: A Challenge of Cultural Diversity
    Presents suggestions aimed at helping interpreters work in a culturally diverse society. (JRH).
  • Phytochemistry and Culture
    Describes a trend in science teaching marked by shifts in philosophies and practices and by a search for science content that draws from the experiences of a culturally diverse student population. (DDR).