The authors give us a warm and sensitive approach to environmental learning.  Our personal emotions and attitudes powerfully influence the way we view nature, and this is why the really good environmental educator nurtures a sense of well-being in the child. This book will tell you how to teach and encourage interpersonal rapport, open-mindedness and curiosity; a sense of values (personal, social, and environmental); feelings of self-worth and confidence, and a community spirit among children and adults alike.

Humanizing Environmental Education: A Guide for Leading Nature and Human Nature Activities

Knapp, Clifford E.

Sports & Outdoors

Amer Camping Assn

Are you convinced that youngsters learn best when they are making or doing or discovering things themselves? Are you unsure about how to turn such experiences into meaningful lessons? This guide will help. A 30 year veteran of the classsroom, Dr. Knapp provides plenty of practical guidance in planning reflection sessions and improving facilitation skills. Also included are listings of helpful organizations and resources for learning more.

Lasting Lessons: A Teacher's Guide to Reflecting on Experience

Education & Teaching

Schools & Teaching

Eric Clearinghouse on Rural

Much academic learning can take place in students' everyday environments. For example, a local shopping mall can be the site for learning a great deal about human behavior; exploring a cemetery can be like reading a book. To help teachers turn these themes and 10 others into meaningful interdisciplinary learning experiences, Dr. Knapp has developed organizing problems, background information, outcomes, over 200 ideas for activities (labeled with the academic subjects to be learned), reflection questions, and performance assessments. The activities are geared for students in grades four through nine, but could be adapted easily for lower or higher grade levels.

Just Beyond the Classroom: Community Adventures for Interdisciplinary Learning

The book demonstrates how educators and youth leaders can help middle-school-age and higher level students understand and define their relationship to nature and learn the importance of protecting the environment. Knapp maps out an educational journey that begins the moment you step outdoors. Alternative teaching strategies and structured activities will connect students with both the natural and built worlds. An examination of the history of environmental ethics and the diversity of worldviews held by people in our society underscores the complexity of reaching agreements about how to live more gently on the Earth.

In Accord With Nature: Helping Students Form an Environmental Ethic Using Outdoor Experience and Reflection

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

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Humanizing Environmental Education: A Guide for Leading Nature and Human Nature Activities

Lasting Lessons: A Teacher's Guide to Reflecting on Experience

Just Beyond the Classroom: Community Adventures for Interdisciplinary Learning

In Accord With Nature: Helping Students Form an Environmental Ethic Using Outdoor Experience and Reflection