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Embracing the Environmental Principles and Concepts
The CASE Environmental Literacy Committee empowers educators to foster environmental literacy through workshops, tools like iNaturalist, and California’s Environmental Principles and Concepts (EP&Cs). Join their online EP&C workshop on April 2,…
Earth Day Every day, activities beyond April 22
Make Earth Day more meaningful with strategic planning and cross-curricular activities. Explore how to turn Earth Day into a year-round celebration of sustainability and action in the classroom and beyond.
“Counting Carbon” to Combat Climate Change
Explore Megan J. Sulsberger's CASE session on teaching climate change with STEM-based activities. Learn how to empower students to understand CO2 emissions, carbon sinks, and take action for sustainability.
The Leaf Detective: A CASE Book Report
As an educator, I am forever looking for the perfect attention-grabbing hook for my lesson. How do I enthrall my students, encourage them to ask questions, and evoke curiosity? The Leaf Detective: How Margaret Lowman Uncovered Secrets in the…
Peaks and Valleys: A landscape study of environmental literacy implementation in and out of California’s TK-12 classrooms
The report, Peaks and Valleys: A landscape study of environmental literacy implementation in and out of California’s TK-12 classrooms, provides a baseline for the state’s educators and policymakers, who have identified environmental literacy as a key…
Green Engineering Design: Stand-Alone Solar Electric Systems
Are you keen to include more lessons on energy in your curriculum but are unsure where to start? Would you like to help your students understand the benefits of solar energy and get them interested in pursuing the plethora of careers offered in the…
Making a CASE for Environmental Literacy
The CASE Environmental Literacy Committee sponsored a workshop Connect and Engage with your Environmental Education Community at the CASE conference held in Palm Springs in October. A diverse group of educators covering a geographic range from…
The Global Environmental Crisis - The Wicked Problem
The Global Environmental Crisis is a wicked problem. I first heard this idea of a “wicked problem” when I attended the professional development Teaching for Sustainable Communities through the California Global Education Project (CGEP). As a middle…
Systems: The Super CCC
This is the second article in a series about global environmental issues, especially as viewed, investigated, and understood with the lenses of the magnificent 7 NGSS Crosscutting Concepts. The first article focused on the phenomena of our current…
Global Environmental Literacy
For the vast majority of human history, people could not affect the condition of our planet or the strength of its web of life. People could disrupt their local ecosystem to the point where it could no longer support them. Their community either died…