The Analysis and Development of an Environmental Education Curriculum for the Rosholt School District with Inservice for the Middle School
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1995-05Author
Byers, Cynthia S.
Publisher
University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, College of Natural Resources
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This project was developed to improve environmental education at the
Rosholt Middle School in Rosholt, Wisconsin through revising and
operationalizing the environmental education curriculum.
Rosholt is found in Central Wisconsin 23 miles from Stevens Point,
Wisconsin. It is a small rural school district with a student population of 773. The
Middle School enrollment is 175.
This project reviewed existing environmental education for the district in
1993. It was found that the curriculum was incomplete and not being used by the
Middle School teachers. Plans were made for the revision of the curriculum by
the reviewer. Other curriculums were reviewed and studied. A new curriculum
was developed and then approved by the Rosholt Board of Education in 1994.
In November of 1994 an inservice was held with the middle school staff to
help them understand the new environmental education curriculum and assist
them in finding ways to implement it. Six teachers spent three and one-half hours
discussing goals, philosophy, ethics, and the importance of environmental
education. They also looked at some environmental education research and were
given time to begin planning ways to infuse the new environmental education
curriculum into their unit plans.
Recommendations were made to: continue work on the activity portion of
the curriculum, develop additional or different activities that would provide for
more continuous programming in the area of environmental education, provide
for more evaluation of the effectiveness of the curriculum, and to infuse the use of
a new outdoor site into the curriculum.