Applied professional project: a high school science curriculum for creating cultural change
(Book - Regular Print)

Thesis,MSES,Green Mountain College,2013

Includes bibliographical references.

The purpose of this applied professional project is to design and implement an interdisciplinary class for The Klahre House alternative high school students that integrates 3 parts: current environmental issues, how we came to be this way, and visions for the future. There are many underlying and deep-seated attitudes towards natural resources and the Earth that should be explored in conjunction with environmental problems and solutions. The idea of developing "ecological intelligence" and examining issues from a systems-thinking perspective is essential to fostering and environmental ethic. The goal of this curriculum is to design and implement a high school level environmental science curriculum that creates a shift in students' worldviews from the human-centered to the ecological. In order to measure the success of this goal, pre-course and post-course surveys and assessments will be used to gauge student attitudes, opinions, and the extent to which the students consider the relationship between first-world culture and environmental issues with an awareness they did not have prior to taking the course