Education and the Environment

Creating Standards-Based Programs in Schools and Districts

Gerald A. Lieberman

• Publisher: Harvard Education Press
• Year: 2013
• ISBN:
  9781612506319
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Teaching Science & Technology

In this timely book, curriculum expert Gerald A. Lieberman provides an innovative guide to creating and implementing a new type of environmental education that combines standards-based lessons on English language arts, math, history, and science with community investigations and service learning projects. By connecting academic content with local investigations, environmental study becomes not simply another thing added to the classroom schedule but an engaging, thought-provoking context for learning multiple subjects. The projects outlined in the book further students' understanding of the way human and natural "systems" interact locally and globally, and provide the next generation with the knowledge necessary for making decisions that will be critical to their future—and ours.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• Foreword
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Part One: Introducing Environment-Based Education
• Part Two: Creating and Implementing an EBE Program
• Appendix A: California’s Environmental Principles and Concepts
• Appendix B: Summary of the EBE Research Data
• Appendix C: Types of Support That Stakeholders and Partners Can Provide
• Appendix D: Examples of EBE Community Partners
• Notes
• About the Author
• Index