The Eco Arts Council
“We advocate for the adaptation of Environmental Education!”
Why incorporate Environmental themes?
Integration of EE is beneficial because CHILDREN HAVE A NATURAL INTEREST IN THE ENVIRONMENT AROUND THEM.
Interested students are motivated students and motivation is a key ingredient for academic achievement!
ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION emphasizes cooperative learning, critical thinking and discussion.
With hands-on activities, and a focus on action strategies, with real-world applications, students are stimulated and can learn leadership skills in advocacy related projects!
Students who study ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION, learn:
How to work on teams
Solve real-world problems
Connect with the community
Promoting actions that serve the larger good
Make a difference in the world
Listen to and accept diverse opinions
Take the long-term view
Environmental-based education employs key strategies for teaching creative and successful problem solving:
Introducing inquiry-based instructional activities with real-world applications
Encouraging critical thinking about these activities
Allowing individual choice about and engagement in the particular problem to be solved
Helping students make connections between disciplines and
Fostering independent and cooperative group learning
Fact: When students learn through a problem or project-based approach – a key strategy in environmental-based education – they gain a better understanding of what they learn, they retain it longer, and they take charge of their own learning – key skills for success in our data-driven rapidly changing world.
Fact: Schools that have EE demonstrate better academic performance across the curriculum
Schools that adopt environmental education as the central focus of their academic programs frequently demonstrate the following results:
Reading, science, social studies, and mathematics scores improve
Students develop the ability to transfer their knowledge from familiar to unfamiliar contests
Students “learn to do science’ rather than “just learn about science”
Classroom discipline problems decline
All students have the opportunity to learn at a higher level
