Environmental Education in the Schools (Peace Corps, 1993): Putting it all together: Creating an environmental education framework: Then narrow it down with guiding questions

Environmental Education in the Schools (Peace Corps, 1993)

Putting it all together: Creating an environmental education framework

		(introduction...)
		When to teach - the sequence
		More about curricula infusion
		For example, a unit on flight could include the following topics
		Then narrow it down with guiding questions
		And a unit on rain forests might include the following topics
		Guiding questions might include
		Sample curriculum outline
		Questions to think about . . .

Then narrow it down with guiding questions

* What flies?
* How and why do things in nature fly?
* What has been the impact of flight on human beings?
* What is the future of flight?
* What are the environmental impacts of flight?

(Adapted from ASCD Interdisciplinary Curriculum: Design and Implementation, edited by Heidi Hayes Jacobs, 1989.)

"The first day or so we all pointed to our countries. The third or fourth day we were pointing to our continents. By the fifth day we were aware of only one earth."

-Sultan Bin Salman al-Saud Astronaut