Term
Summer 2022
Capstone
Capstone Project
Degree Name
MAED: NSEE
Facilitator(s)
Jana Lo Bello Miller
Content Expert
Tina Rivera
Abstract
Research has demonstrated that the importance of producing environmentally literate youth is becoming a priority around the world Producing environmentally literate youth through E-STEM Garden-based learning practices will not only allow our students to become environmentally literate but also capable, aware, citizens with the 21st Century skills necessary to tackle today and tomorrow’s problems. The curriculum designed for this project focuses on using garden-based STEM practices to increase young students' environmental literacy. The project involved using the Next Generation Science standards, the learning goals of the proposed Michigan Environmental Literacy Plan, as well as the American Society for Engineering Education’s Habits of Mind. The curriculum was designed to be used in a formal, public school, educational setting in a second-grade STEM-specific classroom, but is adaptable to be used in a general education lower elementary classroom with the overall goal of increasing the environmental literacy of students.
Project Type
Curriculum
Keywords
Environmental Studies, Science
Recommended Citation
Harding, Kimberly, "Growing Environmentally Literate Youth" (2022). School of Education and Leadership Student Capstone Projects. 838.
https://digitalcommons.hamline.edu/hse_cp/838
Type
text
Publisher
Hamline University
Format
application/pdf
Source
School of Education Student Capstone Theses and Dissertations at Hamline University