What Can You Do?
Here is what you can do to promote environmental education in schools. Taking action is important because it gives us knowledge of how we live and how our lifestyle affects the planet and its inhabitants. The planet is our common home, so we should care about it.
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Educator Action Item List
Once you have completed an item, you can check it off your list!
- Step 1: Create and teach a lesson plan (for just one class to start) about a specific issue -- have students create a project about it to get them inspired!
- Step 2: Inspire and encourage other teachers to follow your example
- Step 3: Organize an outdoors trip (nearby the school or away)
- Step 4: Collect feedback from students and your fellow teachers, and you can bring this feedback to administrators
- Step 5: Work to implement school wide environmental education curriculum (for example in science and social science classes)
Student Action Item List
Once you have completed an item, you can check it off your list!
- Step 1: Educate themselves, for example: join our email list for more information/newsletters read from list of articles/books
- Step 2: Sharing what they learn with others, for example: create a discussion group share what you learned on social media (Facebook, Reddit, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube)
- Step 3: Sign petitions/ start petitions themselves, call/write letters to senators/representatives