DOCUMENT RESUME ED 363 520 SE 054 015 AUTHOR Braus, Judy A.; Wood, David TITLE Environmental Education in the Schools: Creating a Program that Works! Manual M0044. SPONS AGENCY Peace Corps, Washington, DC. Information Collection and Exchange Div. PUB DATE Aug 93 CONTRACT PC-889-2278 NOTE 513p. AVAILABLE FROM Peace Corps, Information Collection & Exchange, 1990 K Street, N.W., 8th Floor, Washington, DC 20526. PUB TYPE Books (010) Guides Classroom Use Teaching Guides (For Teacher) (052) EDRS PRICE MF02/PC21 Plus Postage. DESCRIPTORS *Curriculum Development; Educational Objectives; Elementary Secondary Education; *Environmental Education; *Learning Activities; *Learning Strategies; Lesson Plans; Student Evaluation; Teaching Guides; *Teaching Methods IDENTIFIERS *Environmental Education Programs ABSTRACT This book is a manual that enables teachers to formulate an effective program of environmental education across multiple grade levels and cultural settings. A section provides tips for using the book, followed by nine chapters dealing with different aspects of developing and implementing an environmental education program. Chapter 1 presents a brief overview of what environmental education is all about. Chapter 2 focuses on developing an environmental education plan by addressing the environmental issues in the community. Chapter 3 discusses how to tailor an environmental education program to fit the needs of the school system and community. Chapter 4 focuses on how children develop intellectually and morally and how to use child development theories to develop a more effective environmental education program. Chapter 5 looks at how to develop an environmental scope and sequence. Chapter 6 focuses on lesson plans, learning styles, learning strategies. Chapter 7 presents methods of creating effective environmental education activities and includes over 50 sample activities. Chapter 8 examines strategies for implementing an environmental education program. Chapter 9 focuses on a variety of formal and informal strategies for evaluating environmental education efforts. An appendix includes additional resources, a bibliography and an index. (MDH) *********************************************************************** Reproductions supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made * from the original document. *********************************************************************** NO ENVIRONMENTAL, DUCATIOA inthe CHOOLS CreatingaProgram that Works! 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BRAUS DAVID WOOD LESLIE EICHNER L.EFRANC Design NANCY MILLER Desktop Publisiling PEACE CORPS Information Collection and Exchange August 1993 M0044 Prepared for the Peace Coips by Judy Brans and David Wood under Contract No. PC-889-2278. This manual may be reproduced and/or translated in part or in full without payment of royalty. Please give standard acIznowledgement. 5 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS limmEimminwilminem Do what you can, with what you have, where you are. Theodore Roosevelt MEINEME11111111110111011111111111 "We'd bketotlianizthe many friends and colleagues who helped us develop this environmental education manual for Peace Corps. Our first thanks goes to our creative designer Leslie Eichner LeFranc, who took a huge mess of a manuscript and turned it into a beautifully designed book. We'd also like to thank Nancy Miller, who worked with Leslie's design and spent hours (and hours and hours) at the Mac expertly formatting the text, scanning art, and integrating the design to create the final draft. Without Leslie's and Nancy's dedication and skill, this book would not have been possible. We are especially grateful to the following colleagues who took the time to review the draft, discuss ideas, and offer comments about how to improve: Dr. Randy Champeau, Professor, Environmental Education, University of Wisconsin; Peggy Cowan, Education Specialist, Alaska Department of Education; Scott Eckert, Director of Interpretation, Dry Tortugas National Park, Dr. Sam Ham, Professor, School of Forestry, Wildlife, and Range Sciences, University of Idaho; Dr. Lou Iozzi, Dean of Science Education, Cook College, Rutgers University; Ed McCrea, Executive Director, North American Association for Environmental Education; Kathy McGlauflin, Vice President, Education, Project 6 Learning Tree; Dr. Martha Monroe, Environmental Education Consul- tant; Dr. Bill Stapp, Professor, Natural Resources, University of Michigan; Diane Wood, Vice-President, Latin American and the Caribbean, World Wildlife Fund. Special thanks go to Jody Marshall, Robin D. Grove, Meryl Hall, Alma Lowry, Sara Lustbader, Lori Mann, and Barbara Pitman, who reviewed various drafts and offered advice and support along the way. We'd also like to thank Dr. Mary Schleppegrell, former Education Specialist with the Office of Training and Program Support (OTAPS); Drew Burnett, Environmental Education Specialist, OTAPS; Therese Glowacki, Natural Resource Specialist, OTAPS; Kathy Rulon, Education Specialist, OTAPS; Barbara Ferris, WID Coordinator, OTAPS; Mary Jo Larson, Education Specialist, OTAPS; Pete Coursey, Program and Training Officer for the PACEM Region of Peace Corps; Paul Vitale, Urban Coordinator, OTAPS; and Ana Rosa Ortiz, Associate Peace Corps Director, Honduras. All offered great comments and support throughout the development of the manual. A very special thanks go to David Wolfe, Director of Peace Corps' Information and Collection Exchange (ICE), for his patience and support throughout the development of this manual and for his excellent editorial suggestions. We also appreciate everything Judy Benjamin and the other editorial experts on the ICE staff did to help get this manual printed. We'd also like to thank George Mahaffey, Manager of the Environment Sector, for his continuing support of environmental education activities around the world and for his commitment to maintaining high quality environmental programming in all regions. On a more personal note, David would like to thank Sidwell Friends School for supporting his international environmental education activities and providing so much guidance and on-going support. He would especially like to thank headmaster Earl Harrison, middle school principal Bob Williams, and teaching colleague Dan Bogan. And Judy would like to dedicate this book to the memory of her father, Harry Braus, who spent his life working for human rights, education, and everything the Peace Corps stands for. And fmally, we'd like to acknowledge all the Peace Corps Volunteers and country staff from around the world who helped us, directly and indirectly, by sharing their views on environmental education and for the work they continually do on behalf of the environment to help make the world a better place for all of us. Judy Braus David Wood ii 7 TIPS FOR USING THIS BOOK mimemominissminnamial You can't really understand other traditions if you don't understand your own. John Searle Asy-ou seefrom the Table of Contents, we've divided Environmental Education in the Schools: Creating a Program That Works! into nine chapters, with an appendix that includes the bibliography and other information. Each chapter deals with a different aspect of developing and implementing an environmental education program. Although each chapter stands alone, you might want to sldm the main subheads in each chapter to decide which parts are most appropriate for your needs. In general, we encourage you to follow a planning process that begins with looking at the local environmental problems in your community (Chapter 2) and the realities of the school system you will be worldng with, including the cultural issues that might influence your effectiveness