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Environmental Education in Maryland

=There are many organizations that can help you incorporate Environmental Education into your classroom, many of them are FREE. =


 * Did you know that Environmental Education… **
 * Encompasses multiple disciplines by authentically connecting fields of knowledge?
 * Promotes higher order thinking skills such as critical thinking, problem-solving, and decision making?
 * Increases motivation by offering a real world context for learning and providing academic service-learning opportunities?
 * Engages learners in investigative, student-centered, and cooperative learning processes?
 * Advances educational reform goals?
 * Correlates to state and national academic standards?
 * Promotes continuous lifelong learning?
 * Develops environmentally literate citizens?

University of Tennessee, 2010