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Utah Environmental Literacy Plan

Why Environmental Literacy?

The vast majority of Utah educators and ninety-five percent of parents and schoolchildren nationwide have requested that environmental education be incorporated into their state’s core curriculum.

In order to satisfy the needs of the educators and students in this state, USEE is defining and developing an Environmental Literacy Plan that will make Utah’s education system eligible for millions of dollars through the federal No Child Left Inside Act. Through collaboration with state and community agencies, organizations, and partners, USEE is spearheading the initiative to make Utah a leader in environmental education.

At present, environmental education is not a part of Utah’s core curriculum, nor is it consistently integrated with core standards across subjects. While ninety-five percent of Utah’s teachers support the idea of using the environment to make connections between a variety of subjects, only 70% of teachers recently surveyed report doing any teaching in the outdoors.

According to this survey:

• Only 31% of Utah teachers receive any pre-service training in environmental education

• The majority of elementary school teachers are not comfortable teaching environmental and natural history

• Elementary through high school teachers are not prepared sufficiently to teach about current environmental science issues

Furthermore, Utah teachers have requested environmental education standards for every grade level in each subject area; more administrative support for environmental education; environmental science courses for high school students; environmental careers information for students; environmental education classes as part of pre-service teacher coursework; grade-specific cross-curricular lessons for the outdoors; and a user-friendly database of environmental education resources throughout the state.

Planning for Environmental Literacy

The Environmental Literacy Plan is therefore being designed to facilitate top-quality education for Utah’s K-12 students and beyond, ensuring that Utahns have the skills and tools needed to make relevant, informed choices about the state’s natural heritage. The plan incorporates scientific, economic, and aesthetic considerations as well as professional development courses. Its goal is to help all Utahns:

• Understand the natural world in a social-ecological context including how human decisions and actions impact Utah's natural heritage.

• Understand people as part of the environment and better know natural processes.

• Get motivated to think about local and global, cultural, political, economic, and environmental relationships and to discern various perspectives on contemporary environmental issues.

• Get equipped to make responsible decisions as unique individuals, as community members, and as global citizens.

A dynamic Environmental Literacy Plan will prepare today’s students - tomorrow’s decision makers - with the skills to make critical decisions regarding local and global resources and public health. Download USEE's Environmental Literacy Plan brochure for your own records or for sharing with your students, teachers, co-workers, neighbors, friends, and family.

Environmental Literacy Plan at Work

Environmental education that gets integrated fully will supplement, legitimate, and make more practical the concepts and skills developed in core courses, such as reading and math.

For K-12 students, teachers, and administrators the plan includes:

1) Interdisciplinary content where best practices in education will take place. (For example – visiting a local lake or stream to study native fish - integrating biology, math, geography and careers content)

2) Graduation requirements that ensure high school students understand natural heritage and are environmentally literate.

3) Professional development programs for in-service and pre-service teachers that improve their environmental content knowledge, their skill in teaching about natural heritage in the classroom, and in the outdoors.

4) Assessment techniques the state office of education can use to measure the environmental literacy of students.

Educators know environmental education that is solely classroom-based is only moderately successful. The Environmental Literacy Plan will ensure that teachers employ best teaching practices including local, experiential, outdoor, integrated, and authentic inquiry education. Practitioners and researchers alike are discovering that these same methods which make learning about the environment so memorable and effective can help promote overall academic excellence increasing:

• school attendance and and overall academic performance

• engagement and enthusiasm

• overall health and well-being

• critical thinking and problem solving

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Stop by our Teacher Resource Center to pick up a free pamplet and CD-ROM of "Advancing Education Through Environmental Literacy" by Michele L. Archie, send a self-addressed stamped envelope to USEE requesting this publication, or call for more information.

Roadmap for Utah's Environmental Literacy Plan

USEE has identified seven steps necessary to develop the Utah Environmental Literacy Plan:

1) Identify Key Concepts and Pedagogy for Environmental Literacy

2) Create and Distribute an Environmental Literacy Survey

3) Conduct Integration Focus Groups

4) Hold an Informal Educator's Summit

5) Create an Environmental Literacy Council

6) Create Draft Environmental Literacy Plan

7) Conduct Environmental Literacy Plan Listening Sessions

To begin these steps, USEE is currently seeking funding. If you would like to make a contribution, please, click here and be sure to note that your contribution is in honor of Environmental Literacy. Check back periodically for information about how you can help shape Utah's own Environmental Literacy Plan.

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