This digest contains an abridgment of a section of a chapter on "Environmental Education Research Related to Issue Awareness" from the 1984 National Commission for Environmental Education Research (NCEER) Report. The paper was prepared by Randall Wiesenmeyer, Maureen Murrin, and Audrey Tomera. Only the section of the paper dealing with…

Outdoor learning activities often cause problems in class control. Organizing children into game-playing activities that emphasize ecological and biological themes helps reinforce learning with play. Several activities are described. (DF)

Lists 17 activities that can be used in the classroom to commemorate Wright Brothers Day. These include making bulletin boards, writing poems, and a field trip to the airport. (MA)

Describes a secondary level interdisciplinary (social studies and language arts) study of family life in early nineteenth-century New England. Research and creative writing were combined with a working field trip to a living history museum, Old Sturbridge Village. (KC)

This activity packet, designed for elementary grades 2-4, provides educators with a series on hands-on interdisciplinary classroom and outdoor education activities that focus on aquatic life at Lake James State Park, North Carolina. The packet was designed to meet established curriculum objectives of the North Carolina Department of Public…

Provides teaching tips for a visit to the zoo. Includes zoo manners, background information on vertebrates, and activities to do during and after the field trip. (MA)

In this instructional guide, architect Frank Lloyd Wright becomes the focus of interdisciplinary lessons intended for use with elementary level students. The text is organized in 2 sections. Section 1 provides an 8 chapter biography and study of Wright. The second section gives 21 lesson activities in foods, natural science, geometry, patterns,…

Prepared, tested, and improved by teachers--in partnership with architects, historians, city planners, and artists--this guide identifies the ways that built environment education can be introduced into every area of the curriculum. A field trip planning sheet is included to ensure proper planning. Several activities relating to the Liberty…

In an attempt to infuse career education into the existing school program, teachers were given the opportunity to prepare a unit of career exploration and receive a small career education grant ($75-$100) in order to carry out the unit. Most career exploration units involved the community. (KC)

Discussed is the philosophical basis and development of wilderness education as part of the higher education curriculum. A list of characteristics of successful wilderness field trips is presented. (RE)

This instructional packet is one of 14 school environmental education programs developed for use in the classroom and at the Dahlem Environmental Education Center (DEEC) of the Jackson Community College (Michigan). Provided in the packet are pre-trip activities, field trip activities, and post-trip activities which focus on various geological…

Suggests projects to help elementary students learn about man-land relationships through field experience, inquiry techniques, and a thematic, interdisciplinary approach. Children study a natural community, a human community, solid wastes, and energy conservation. (Author/AV)

Trip maps and trip boards are described, as are suggested destinations for class trips. The maps are used as multipurpose tools that any teacher can tailor to the needs of his or her own community and environmental studies and to the skills of children of any age. (Author/KC)

The American Institute of Architects, locally and nationally, is active in supporting environmental education efforts in the schools. Because of its "endangered" status, Union Station in Kansas City, Missouri, was chosen by the Kansas City chapter as the second focus landmark in the their series. This interdisciplinary field guide serves…

The purpose of this community study unit is to help fifth grade students understand the pathways energy takes as it flows through several communities. Each of these communities are examined as working systems. The energy pathways are similar, but slightly different as the energy flows through the members of each community. The unit involves many…