Environmental Education

Creating an emotionally safe learning environment

Developing open-mindedness

Uncover hidden values

Identify minority views

Juxtaposing cultural differences

Different subjects and disciplines

Provide additional solutions to problems

Authentic improvement of the community (social, environmental, economic)

Studying the actions of others

Engaging in the action process and reflecting on the results of actions

Schools 'walk the talk'

Student empowerment in school functioning (waste reduction, energy conservation, naturalized landscaping, food sourcing)

Cultural exploration and expression

Influencing government

Schoolyards and neighbourhoods

Nearby built and natural areas

Regional settings and wilderness settings

Learning outside of the classroom

Nature's annual cycle of events

Teacher field-based pedagogical skills

Project-based learning

Student-led inquiry

A literature approach

A theme approach

Differentiation

A focus on big ideas

Using appropriate expectations from all subjects

Seeing the complexity of issues

An inter-connected worldview

Sources of information (texts, surveys, measurements, monitoring, online sources, interviews)

Hands-on experience

Community school partnerships

Students communicating with an audience beyond of the classroom

Case studies

Respectful listening

Open-ended, rich learning tasks

Differentiated learning/program choice

Students as 'citizen learners'

Experience deep democracy

Group knowledge building

Self-aware of emotions and habits of mind

Changes to role of teacher to coach/facilitator/co-learner

Questions important to the students lead the learning

Learning process skills and content

Problem based learning

An effective community of learners