Next Generation Science Standards and Environmental Education

The Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) represent an unprecedented opportunity for the environmental and sustainability education communities. They promise to dramatically change the focus and pedagogy of K-12 science education in the United States. The good news is that the NGSS are strong on environmental content, much stronger than what is being taught now in the vast majority of schools across the nation. It is not a given, however, that the transition to the new standards will occur widely or quickly. Organizations and individuals interested in education about the environment and sustainability issues can help states and school districts that are planning to implement the NGSS. This participation may ultimately influence the degree of penetration of the NGSS, and embedded environmental content, into the nation's classrooms.

• Dr. Stephen Pruitt, Senior Vice President, Content, Research and Development, ACHIEVE 
• Dr. Juliana Texley, President-elect of National Science Teachers Association
• Gilda Wheeler, Program Supervisor for Environmental and Sustainability Education at the Washington State Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction 
• Dr. Gerald Lieberman, Director, State Education and Environment Roundtable

Download March 17, 2014 webinar here: NGSS and Environmental Education

April 29, 2014 Webinar Featured Guests:

• Laura Downey, Executive Director of Kansas Association for Conservation and Environmental Education 
• Lisa Alexander, Executive Director, Audubon Naturalist Society
• Louisa Koch, Education Director at NOAA 
• Martin Storksdieck, Ph.D., Director of the Board on Science Education at the National Research Council which developed the Framework for K-12 Science Education

Download April 29, 2014 webinar here: NGSS and Environmental Education

Sponsors:

• Kevin Coyle, National Wildlife Federation
• Gerald Lieberman, State Environment and Education Roundtable
• Jim Elder, Campaign for Environmental Literacy
• Judy Braus, North American Association for Environmental Education
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Go Green Radio with Jill Buck

Education is a dynamic institution. Every few years classrooms are introduced to new technologies and reforms that alter the learning experience in many ways. Throughout all these changes, however, two things have remained the same: first, human beings are completely dependent on natural systems, and second, human beings are capable of rendering natural systems incapable of supporting life. To what extent are we teaching students the necessary skills to preserve the natural systems on which they rely? Our guest today is Dr. Jerry Lieberman, who will discuss practical ways to use the environment around any school to create standards-based environmental education programs.

Listen here: Go Green Radio
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