Importance of EE.

1. Need and Importance of
Environmental Education
Ahmed Aboulez
College of Education
Mansoura University, Egypt
aaboulez@mans.edu.eg
2020

2. Agenda
1. What is the Environmental Education?
2. Is Environmental Education just
Environmental Information?
3. Activities.
4. Why is EE is important?
5. Linking EE with STEM➞E-STEM.

3. Warm-up
1. How do define the term environment?
2. Are human a part of the environment?
3. What is environmental education?

4. What is the Environmental Education?

5. Environmental Education (EE)
EE is a process that allows individuals to:
1. explore environmental issues.
2. engage in problem solving.
3. take action to improve the environment.

6. Environmental Education (EE)
EE is a process directed at creating:
1. Awareness.
2. Understanding.
3. leads to responsible individual and
group actions.
about environmental issues

7. Successful Environmental Education
EE focuses on processes that promote :
1. Critical Thinking.
2. Problem Solving.
3. Effective Decision-Making Skills.

8. Environmental Education = Eco-Education

9. What is Environmental Education?
Environmental education (EE) is a life-
long learning process that increases
people's knowledge and awareness about
the environment and its associated
challenges, develops the necessary skills
and expertise to address the challenges,
and fosters attitudes, motivations, and
commitments to make informed
decisions and take responsible actions.

10. Environmental Education (EE)
Process knowledge Awareness Skills Attitudes Actions

11. Activity_1:
Process knowledge Awareness Skills Attitudes Actions
• EE is a process focusing on life-long learning.
• Stating at earliest year and continue
• Community.

12. Activity_2:
Process knowledge Awareness Skills Attitudes Actions
• Natural recourses .
• Healthy foods.
• Clean water.

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17. Is Environmental Education just
Environmental Information?

18. Predicting
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Discussing
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Classifying
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Data Gathering
Interpreting
Data
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Inferring
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Experimenting
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Measuring
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Environmentaleducationutilizes
processesthatinvolvestudentsin
Observing

19. So EE is not environmental information
Environmental information is
providing facts about specific
environmental issues or problems.

20. Why is Environmental Education Necessary?

21. Why is EE is important?

22. Activity_7:
Try to figure out: Why is EE Matters?

23. What is E-STEM?

24. Linking EE with STEM➞E-STEM
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Science
Technology
Engineering
Math

25. Closed-up
1. What was one fact you learned today?
2. What was the most interested thing
about today’s class?
3. How can you apply or use the
information that you learned today?

27. Thank you