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Wisconsin Environmental Science
Course Framework
Purpose of the Framework
Development Process
Rationale for Environmental Science Education
 Environmental Education and Environmental Science Education
Environmental science education is
not the same as environmental education although each one
incorporates aspects of the other. Environmental science is a
core component of environmental education as diagramed
on the right.
Environmental Science
“Environmental science is an interdisciplinary study that
integrates information and ideas from the natural sciences and
the social sciences to study the relationships between organisms
and the environment.” Environmental science includes teaching
skills for critical analysis of evidence (data).
Environmental Education
Environmental education (EE) is defined as “a lifelong learning
process that leads to an informed and involved citizenry having
the creative problem-solving skills, scientific and social
literacy, ethical awareness and sensitivity for the relationship
between humans and the environment, and commitment to engage in
responsible individual and cooperative actions. By these
actions, environmentally literate citizens will help ensure an
ecologically and economically sustainable environment.”3
Environmental education includes five key goals: awareness,
knowledge, ethics, skills, and experience (see Appendix pg. 12
in the complete document). The final goal of experience or
action is key to environmental education.
Relationship
Environmental science education encompasses many of the goals of
environmental education, especially focusing on awareness and
knowledge. Depending on a particular teacher and a particular
course, the additional environmental education goals of ethics,
skills, and experience may be incorporated. A well designed
environmental science course can incorporate both an emphasis on
understanding science processes and concepts as well as
development of an environmental ethic and teaching skills for
citizen action.
Framework Overview
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