Environmental Literacy and Inquiry is a resource for science content area teachers to use for curriculum that involves the environment. There are five different sections of curriculum materials on this website: energy, tectonics, climate change, land use change, and socio-environmental science investigations. Each of these curriculum sections have and overview, resources, lesson layout, and assessments that can be used for each unit. These units don’t perfectly line up with the Georgia Standards of Excellence, but I think these topics have great social value to students and can get students to think about how science can be used to combat climate change and come up with renewable energy sources.
Each of these units has instructional resources and support materials that include a wide variety of videos and literature that students can read about regarding each of the environmental science topics. These resources can allow students to practice their literacy skills while continuing their science content education. The investigations unit unit also has a bunch of ways that students can get some real experience in their communities by planting trees, evaluating transportation, proposing sustainable development, and much more.
I would definitely recommend this resource to science area teachers because you can take the Georgia Standards of Excellence and go deeper by engaging your students in the environmental and sustainability social issues of today.
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I think that this is such a cool resource for science teachers! Learning about the environment has always been a really fun topic, and I believe that this resource allows it to remain fun and also connect those topics to what we are talking about in the world right now. I feel like that was missing when I was learning about the environment in school, and it is great to see a resource that brings the content in to real-life situations.
ReplyDeleteI think this is such a cool resource and a great way to dive into todays issues. This could even be used for social studies teachers when one talks about the politics and geography that the issues with the environment impact our world. This great resource provides information and strategies to gift to our students, whom will be our future, appreciate and understand that we need to take care of the world we live on.
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