Developing a Plan for the Infusion of Environmental Education at the Intermediate Level
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Date
1995-08Author
Warnke, Sharon L.
Publisher
University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, College of Natural Resources
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Although Madison Metropolitan School District published an
environmental education curriculum guide in 1990, little follow-up has been
done within the schools to monitor its use. As a result, environmental
education is taught in a hit or miss fashion in most schools throughout the
district, including Frank Allis Elementary School. This project was designed
to facilitate the infusion of environmental education into the curricula in
grades two through five at Allis.
Allis is a large school and the teachers work as teams of four to six at
each grade level. Approximately one half hour per month of each team
meeting was devoted to the infusion of environmental education during the
1994-95 school year. Each team chose units for infusion, gathered materials to
be infused, and established a format for ease of use of the materials. Some of
these materials were then piloted by the teachers and shared briefly at the
meetings. The materials were organized according to unit and lesson, and
placed in the appropriate grade level binder in the team leader's room for easy
access.
The project resulted in four resource binders of lessons chosen for
infusion, one for each grade level involved in the research, and an expanded
teacher resource library of environmental education materials.