QTCE 3010Y Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Green Roof, Straw, Environmental Education

• School: Trent University
• Department: Queen's Trent Concurrent Education
• Course: QTCE 3010Y
• Professor: Fiona White

Document Summary

Environmental education definition encompasses sustainability and outdoor education. Differing visions about what environmental education encompasses. Evolution vs. revolution (how to embed systems thinking into the curriculum) Revisions to some curriculum documents going concurrently. Develop and strategically implement guidelines for environmentally sound practices at the ministry, school board and school levels. Increase cross-curricular focus of environmental education by embedding environmental expectation and topics. Provide ongoing professional development for teachers with a focus on context/knowledge, teaching in the environment. Team taught by an ecologist and an educator. Focus on the science behind environmental issues. Topics linked to grade 1-8 s&t curriculum. Opportunity to learn environmental science in an elementary education perspective. Hands-on workshops and practicums to provide the education focus. Practicums with actual elementary school students, in their school or at camp. Real science labs (e. g. soils, water quality) but also cross-curricular workshops (e. g. using the arts to teach environmental science) Practicum and volunteer opportunities for student teachers.