Implementing Environmental Education curriculum
Environmental Education is best delivered through a wide range of teaching and learning activities utilising all of the Key Learning Areas. Students will develop strong environmental knowledge, awareness and capacity for positive environmental change when it is contextualised or taught using real examples, problem solving and with active student participation.
We can expect students to develop specific environmental knowledge and skills and develop positive values and attitudes through environmental activities
A Cross-curricular approachPrimary and Secondary Curriculum - Expected Student Outcomes
A cross-curricular approach to environmental education can also be undertaken with whole school based projects in both Primary School and High School environments.
Encouraging Native Birds into the School (Primary School) - see also Biodiversity Audit
Improving Biodiversity and Aesthetics (High School) - see also Biodiversity Audit
How the KLA’s interconnect in Environmental Education
Literacy | assists in the organising, recording, describing and reporting of our investigations, ideas and findings |
Numeracy | provides a structure in which to gather, process and interpret data and present information |
Human Society in it’s Environment (HSIE) | helps students identify the relationships between the human and natural environments and allows them to explore and describe them |
Science | gives us a framework for investigation, to test hypotheses and provides information about the physical processes of our world |
Technology | helps us implement solutions using appropriate technology or to design, test and develop new technologies |
Creative Arts | provides multi-modal ways of communicating our environmental issues and solutions |
PE/Health/PD | awareness of and commitment to positive personal and environmental health are interlinked in our society |
LOTE / NESB | we need to be inclusive of values when understanding our attitudes to the environment and be understanding of the contribution our whole society can make |
Environmental Education in the Primary Curriculum
Developing a whole of school Environmental Education process is often easier with the class teacher contextualising environmental education through a specific topic and incorporating all the KLA’s.
Two Primary schools examples Medowie Public School and Teven Tintenbar Rice Farm
Environmental Education in the Secondary Curriculum
Science and HSIE have been traditionally the subjects related to environmental education, however as Environmental Education is increasingly taught through a contextual framework all of the KLA’s contribute to students becoming more environmentally aware and capable.
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