in environmental education it possess a lot of techniques that ensure the environmental education studies in higher level through higher education strategies

2. ENVIRONMENTAL
EDUCATION
TECHNIQUES

3. INTRODUCTION
• Environmental education is a process by
which people develop awareness,
concern, and knowledge of the
environment and learn to use this
understanding to preserve, conserve,
and utilize the environment in a
sustainable manner for the benefit of
present and future generations.

4. TECHNIQUES
OBSERVATION
NATURE GAMES
NATURE WALK
QUIZ
ROLE-PLAY
BRAINSTORMING
SURVEY
DRAMATIZATION
PUPPETRY
CASE STUDY

5. OBSERVATION

6. OBSERVATION
1. Observation is the active acquisition of
information from a primary source employing the
senses.
2. Observing students requires the gathering of
evidence of learning in natural setting.
3. Observation can be qualitative, that is only the
absence or presence of a property is noted, or
quantitative if a numerical value is attached to the
observed phenomenon by counting or measuring.

7. OBSERVATION MAINLY CLASSIFIED IN
TO:
PARTICIPANT AND NON PARTICIPANT
STRUCTURED AND UNSTRUCTURED
CONTROLLED AND UNCONTROLLED
OBSERVATION IS A METHOD OF
COLLECTING EVALUATING INFORMATION
IN WHICH THE EVALUATOR WATCHES THE
SUBJECT IN HIS OR HER USUAL
ENVIRONMENT WITHOUT ALTERING THAT
ENVIRONMENT.

8. IMPORTANCE OF OBSERVATION
•Improves concentration about environmental
issues.
•Encourages pupils to explore and learn local
environment.
•Imagination and enthusiasm are heightened.
•Biophobia and nature deficit disorder decline.
•Responsible action is taken to better the
environment.
• It helps to identify major environmental
problems

9. NATURE GAMES

10. NATURE GAMES
NATURE GAMES ARE NOTHING BUT
ACTIVITIES WHERE IN STUDENTS
PARTICIPATION IS PREDOMINANT.
AS GAMES INVOLVE ELEMENTS OF
RECREATION AND ENJOYMENT,STUDENTS
PLAY THEM WITH GREAT INTEREST AND
ENTHUSIASM.
NATURE GAMES DEVELOPS FAVOUARABLE
ATTITUDES TOWARDS ENVIRONMENT.

11. SOME OF THE
NATURAL GAMES ARE;
SECRET SMELLS
NATURAL ORCHESTRA
LEAF RAINBOW
HUG A TREE
STAR THERAPY
SOLO WALK

12. IMPORTANCE OF NATURE
GAMES
•Playing in our natural play scape
which makes use of our land
resources to provide entertainment
and physical activity.
•Creating and maintaining community
gardens.
•A heightened interest and
excitement in environment.

13. •Takes away classroom drudgery.
•Play in diverse natural
environment reduces or
eleminates anti-social behaviour
such as violence, bullying,
vandalism.
•Games provides new and
interesting way to convey
information which is easy to learn.

14. NATURE WALK

15. NATURE WALK
TAKING STUDENTS IN TO THE NATURE FOR
OBSERVATION IS A VERY POWERFUL TECHNIQUE
IN ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION.
A WALK ON A NATURAL TRAIL, ESPECIALLY WITH
AN EXPERIENCED GUIDE.
LEARNING ABOUT ENVIRONMENT IS
INTERESTING TOO.
DURING NATURE WALK. THE LEARNER DIRECTS
HIS PERCEPTIVE POWERS TOWARDS ALL
ELEMENTS IN NATURE.

16. IMPORTANCE OF NATURE WALK
•A nature walk will also give more
peace and quiet
•Walking with nature is very
relaxing and well worth a daily
trip.
•Reducing loneliness.
•To find natural problems.

17. •Develops observation skills.
•Natural beauty can actually increase
immune function.
•To identify environmental issues.
•Protect environmental resources.
•Observation helps the learners to
firsthand experience which leads to
deeper insights in to the various natural
processes and phenomena

19. QUIZ
• A QUIZ IS A GAME O MIND SPOT, IN WHICH THE
PLAYERS ATTEMPT TO ANSWER QUESTIONS
CORRECTLY.
• IT IS A GAME TO TEST KNOWLEDGE ABOUT
CERTAIN SUBJECT.
• IN SOME COUNTRIES , A QUIZ IS ALSO A BRIEF
ASSESSMENT USED IN EDUCATUON AND SIMILAR
FIELDS TO MEASURE GROWTH IN KNOWLEDGE.
• A POP QUIZ IS A QUIZ THAT STUDENTS ARE GIVEN
NO TIME TO PREPARE FOR,THEY ARE SIMPLY

20. IMPORTANCE OF QUIZ
•Focus student’s attention on a particular
topic.
•Environmental quizzes helps to
understand major problems in
environment
•It creates environmental awareness.
•Quizzes improve or expanding knowledge
of things in specific area.

21. •It promotes a healthy debate amongst
participants in order to learn from each
other.
•Quizzes helps to develop growth
in knowledge.

23. ROLE PLAY
• ROLE PLAYING IS A DEALING WITH PROBLEMS
THROUGH ACTIONS.
• ROLE PLAYING METHODOLOGIES TO A RANGE OF
CURRICULAM AREAS FOCUSING ON HUMAN
ISSUES AND WOULD LIKE TO SHARE INSIGHTS IN
TO ITS SPECIFIC APPLICATIONS TO
ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION.
• IN A ROLE PLAY USUALLY A PROBLEM IS
DELINEATED,ENACTED, AND DISCUSSED.

24. Forms of role play include;
•Simple role play
•Multiple role play
•Socio drama

25. IMPORTANCE OF ROLE PLAY
•Role play are a simple and low cost
method.
•Focuses right on the problem and helps
learners deal with it.
•It throws considerable light on crucial
environmental issues within a short
period of time.
•It does not require much material or
much advance preparation.

26. •Explore subject matter in varied
ways.
•Role playing process provides a live
sample of human behaviour that
serves as a vehicle for students to
gain insight in to their attitudes,
values and perceptions.
•Develop the problem solving skills.

27. BRAINSTORMING

28. BRAINSTORMING
• ALEX.F.OSBORN 1953 INTRODUCED THE
BRAINSTORMING METHOD.
• IT IS ALSO KNOWN AS AN IDEA GETTING
TECHNIQUE.
• BRAINSTORMING IS A TECHNIQUE DESIGNED
TO STIMULATE THE MAXIMUM FLOW OF
INFORMATIONS AND IDEAS.
• BRAINSTORM MEANS STORMING THE BRAIN
FOR SOLVING A PROBLEM.

29. Basic rules for conducting a
brainstorming session;
•No criticism is allowed during
brainstorming.
•Quantity is important.
•Crazy ideas are welcome.
•Combining other ideas and taking
another persons ideas a step further or
using them for yet another idea is good.

30. •STEPS INVOLVED IN
BRAINSTORMING ARE;
1.sensing the problem and
challenge
2.Fact- finding
3.Brain storming stage
4.Evaluation

31. IMPORTANCE OF BRAIN STORMING
•Creativity, fresh ideas, and
innovation can be promoted.
•Brainstorming helps to
understand the recent problems in
environment.
•Team spirit acquires through
brainstorming techniques.

32. •Brainstorming techniques helps to
increase knowledge about
environmental education.
•Topics should be select based on
recent environmental issues make to
acquire more information about the
topic.
•Unlimited ideas are formed in the
brainstorming session.

34. SURVEY
• SURVEY TECHNIQUES HELPS TO INVOLVES
LEARNERS INCARRYING OUT SIMPLE DATA
COLLECTION EXCERCISES, WHICH PROVIDE BASIC
INFORMATION FOR PLANNING RELATED
ACTIVITIES.
• BASED ON THE SURVEY RECORD AND PROJECT
WORK , EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATIONS CAN BE
CARRIED OUT TO LEARN MORE ABOUT THE
ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEMS OF THE AREAS AND
UNDERSTAND THE TOTALITY OF THE
ENVIRONMENT.

35. •A SURVEY IS GENERALLY CARRIED OUT TO GATHER
INFORMATION THROUGH QUESTIONNAIRES,
OPINION SHEETS OR PERSONAL INTERVIEWS AND TO
ELICIT OPINIONS, FEELINGS, AND ATTITUDES OF
INDIVIDUALS ON VARIOUS ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES
OR PROBLEMS.
A few sample topics for surveys could be;
Survey of problems faced by the people living in
flats.
Survey of the solid waste disposal techniques in a
locality.

36. IMPORTANCE OF SURVEY
•Surveys help to elicit opinions, feelings,
and attitudes of individuals on various
environmental issues or problems.
•Learn more about the environmental
problems.
•Numerous questions can be asked
about a subject, giving extensive
flexibility in data analysis.

37. •A broad range of data can
be collected.
•Precise results are
obtained.
•Low costs.
.

38. DRAMATIZATION

39. DRAMATIZATION
• DRAMATIZATION GIVES REALITY AND
CONCRETENESS TO LEARNING SITUATIONS.
• ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION CAN BE
DRAMATIZED AS PART OF THE ACTIVITIES OF
A SCIENCE CLUB.
• ACTIVE INVOLVEMENT OF PUPILS
DRAMATIZATION HELPS EASY
MEMORIZATION OF LEARNING MATERIALS.

40. Kinds of dramatization;
•Full-length play
•Class dramatization
•Tableau
•Shadow play, etc…..
oEnvironmental issues are also
included in dramatization.
oExample: drama SURRENDER

41. IMPORTANCE OF DRAMATIZATION
•The use of drama can greatly enhance
and reinforce learning in environmental
education.
•Drama can thus consolidate and extend
students direct experience of the natural
world and foster the empathy that is
essential if students are to appreciate and
ultimately protect it.

42. •Promoting environmental
awareness through drama.
•Dramatization helps for
environmental protection.
•Power of observation also
develop through this method.
•It also help to develop the power
of sympathy and imaginations.

43. PUPPETRY

44. PUPPETRY
• PUPPETRY IS A PERFORMANCE THAT INVOLVES
THE MANIPULATION OF PUPPETS-INANIMATE
OBJECTS,OFTEN RESEMBLING SOME TYPE OF
HUMAN OR MANIPULATED BY A HUMAN CALLED
PUPPETEER.
• SUCH A PERFORMANCE IS ALSO KNOWN AS
PUPPET PLAY.
• THE PUPPETEER OFTEN SPEAKS IN THE VOICE OF
THE CHARACTER OF THE PUPPET.
• VARIOUS PUPPET PLAYS WHICH TARGET
DIFFERENT ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES.

45. The most commonly used puppets
are hand puppets, glove and finger
puppets , rod puppets, string puppets
and shadow puppets.
•Puppets have four categories;
•Direct
•Indirect
•Remote control
•Combination

46. IMPORTANCE OF PUPPETRY
•Puppets are wonderful tools for
teaching concepts such as food chain
relationships, anatomy, behavior,
diversity, and life cycles.
•Excellent models for introducing
behavioural traits and adaptations
found in wild animals.

47. •Puppets are making using environment
polluted materials like plastics.
•Puppet show makes awareness about
nature.
•Children naturally gravitate toward
puppets, making them excellent
enrichment tool for presentations,
discussions and enhanced story telling.

48. CASE STUDY

49. Meaning of a case study : The case being
studied through the technique could be an
event, a phenomenon, human behavior, a
news, a speech, a letter, or even an account of
an event .
It is a technique through which the pupils
explore, investigate, study, infer, and arrive at
conclusions regarding a particular situation,
issue, or problems.
It can be conducted with any component of
the environment – geographical, biological,
and philosophical.

50. IMPORTANCE OF CASE STUDY
•Case study explores student action for a
sustainable future.
•Case study provides students with
knowledge about the history of
environmental sustainability and prepares
them for a career in a global industry that
is increasingly focusing and implementing
environmental initiatives.

51. •Case study helps to understand
severe problems in environment.
•Case study helps to take remedial
measures for environmental
problems.
•Case study helps detail study for
environment.

52. CONCLUSION
• The main environmental education
techniques are observation, nature
games, nature walk, quiz, role play,
brainstorming, survey, dramatization,
puppetry, case study, etc. These
techniques are helps in environmental
education