What Is Environmental Education?

Environmental education is the study of the relationships and interactions between dynamic natural and human systems. Environmental education:

• Includes learning in the field as well as the classroom
• Incorporates the teaching methods of outdoor education, experiential education, and place-based education
• Is inherently interdisciplinary
• Promotes school/community partnerships
• Is hands-on, student-centered, inquiry driven, engages higher level thinking skills, and relevant to students' everyday lives
• Develops awareness, increases knowledge, builds skills, and creates the capacity for stewardship and good citizenship regarding the environment upon which we depend for life support.
• Helps address the causes of “nature deficit disorder”
• Boosts student achievement in math, science, reading, writing and social studies
  
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