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Environmental Education Materials
The North American Association for Environmental
Education offers these guidelines to help educators choose
environmental education materials.
Criteria for Evaluating Environmental Education Materials:
(EE Materials: Guidelines For Excellence, NAAEE)
- Fairness and Accuracy: EE Materials should be fair and
accurate in describing environmental problems, issues,
and conditions, and in reflecting the diversity of perspectives
on them.
- Depth: EE materials should foster awareness of the
natural and built environment, an understanding of environmental
concepts, conditions, and issues, and an awareness of
the feelings, values, attitudes, and perceptions at the
heart of environmental issues, as appropriate fro different
developmental levels.
- Emphasis on skills building: EE materials should build
lifelong skills that enable learners to prevent and address
environmental issues.
- Action Orientation: EE materials should promote civic
responsibility, encouraging learners to use their knowledge,
personal skills, and assessments of environmental issues
as a basis for environmental problem solving and action.
- Instructional soundness: EE materials should rely on
instructional techniques that create an effective learning
environment.
- Usability: EE materials should be well designed and
easy to use.
Several states and national organizations have databases
of environmental education resources:
California CREEC: http://www.creec.org
EE Link: http://www.eelink.net
Since 1994, EE-Link has been a leading force in bringing
environmental education to the Internet. Now, with over
10,000 users per week on average, EE-Link has become a comprehensive
website for exploring environmental education on the Internet.
EE-Link is a participant in the Environmental Education
and Training Partnership (EETAP) of the North American Association
for Environmental Education (NAAEE).
Eisenhower National Clearinghouse database: http://www.enc.org
ENC's mission is to identify effective curriculum resources,
create high-quality professional development materials,
and disseminate useful information and products to improve
K-12 mathematics and science teaching and learning.
ENC...
- Serves all K-12 educators, parents, and students with
free products and services.
- Acquires and catalogs mathematics and science curriculum
resources, creating the most comprehensive collection
in the nation.
- Provides the best selection of math and science education
resources on the Internet.
- Supports teachers' professional development in math,
science, and the effective use of technology.
- Collaborates with the Eisenhower Regional Consortia
and many other organizations across the nation to promote
education reform.
Located at The Ohio State University, ENC is funded through
a contract with the U.S. Department of Education's Office
of Educational Research and Improvement. ENC was established
in 1992.
ENC was originally created to collect all types of teaching
materials for K-12 math and science educators and to identify
and disseminate information about federally funded programs.
Our products and services have evolved to include this web
site, ENC Focus, which is a free quarterly magazine, and
several other publications and services.
ENC works in collaboration with a network of regional organizations,
including the Eisenhower Regional Consortia, the ENC Demonstration
Sites, and the ENC Access Centers. See the ENC Partners
area of this web site to learn more about the work of this
network.
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