Kane County Institute Day 2025

This workshop introduces participants to K–12 Environmental Education: Guidelines for Excellence which provides students, parents, educators, home schoolers, administrators, policy makers, and the public a set of common, voluntary guidelines for environmental literacy.  

The guidelines support state and local environmental education efforts in this way:
✓ Set expectations for achievement in fourth, eighth, and twelfth grades
✓ Suggest a framework for effective and comprehensive environmental education
programs and curricula
✓ Demonstrate how environmental education can be used to meet standards set by
the traditional disciplines and give students opportunities to synthesize knowledge
and experience across disciplines
✓ Define the aims of environmental education

These guidelines set a standard for high-quality education, based on what an environmentally literate person should know and be able to do by the time they graduate from high school. They draw on the best thinking in the field to outline the core ingredients of environmental education. Workshop participants will walk away with a solid understanding of the learning framework provided in the Guidelines and will be able to correlate the guidelines to
their own curriculum materials.

*Participants will be given print curriculum in this session.