2. What is Environmental Education
Environmental education (EE) refers to organized
efforts to teach how natural environments function, and
particularly, how human beings can manage behavior
and ecosystems to live sustainably. It is a multi-
disciplinary field integrating disciplines such as biology,
chemistry, physics, ecology, earth science,
atmospheric science, mathematics, and geography.
3. Why Environmental Education is
Important
Environmental awareness is becoming more and more
important in these times of obvious climate change and
expanded global economic growth.
4. Goal of Environmental Education
It is a way of implementing the goals of
environmental protection. It is not a separate branch
of science but lifelong interdisciplinary field of study.”
It means education towards protection and
enhancement of the environment and education as
an instrument of development for improving the
quality of life of human communities.
5. Resources of Environmental
Education
Out Earth
Keep America Beautiful
The Environmental Protection Agency
The National Wildlife Foundation
North American Association for Environmental
Education
6. Out Earth
Our Earth External link is a website that hosts an
impressive amount of environmental information and
resources. The site’s resources include a series of
lesson plans, zoo links, information on recycling and
details on donating to a series of worthy, conservation-
related causes.
7. Keep America Beautiful
Keep America Beautiful External link (KAB) is an
organization that provides a great deal of resources for
citizens interested in preserving the splendor or
America through litter prevention, waste reduction,
recycling and other important community beautification
tools.
8. The Environmental Protection
Agency
The Environmental Protection Agency External link
(EPA) is the country’s foremost organization dedicated
to the preservation of the environment. Therefore, it’s
only appropriate that the EPA has a page of resources
External link dedicated to educators and students.
9. National Wildlife Foundation
The National Wildlife Foundation External link is
dedicated to the protection of animals. Part of its goal
is to educate the community about national wildlife and
the environment they live in. For this reason, their
website includes a kid’s page External link with lots of
fun activities and information to get kids interested in
wildlife.
10. The North American Association for
Environmental Education
The North American Association for Environmental
Education External link hosts a page of education
resources External link for teachers and students. The
site includes a network of educational resources for
educators, and allows them to search for and share
their own materials with other environmentally-
conscious instructors
11. Who I Am?
Yong Huei Wang is currently the Sub – Dean of
teacher education who has the greater knowledge and
skills about the environmental education, based in the
United Kingdom.