Recent Approaches in Education: Environmental Education

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This course will focus on providing students with a hands-on experience adaptable to a traditional classroom setting, and an up-to-date meaningful examination of environmental topics. Students will combine fieldwork with classroom learning as a way to implement environmental education into urban and sub-urban settings. A number of field trips will supplement classroom lessons. Some topics to be explored include ecology, field study in stream and woodland ecology, schoolyard nature study and environmental issues.