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ENVIRONMENTALISTS Teachers Prep Kids for the Future
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ducators have switched from preach- ing to kids about environmental deg- radation to using hands-on lessons
to get K-12 students not only interested in the world’s environmental priorities, but also actively participating in solutions, maybe even seeking out related careers. “You hope students can translate
passion into intellectual curiosity on these subjects and develop the expertise so they can go beyond being an activist to being an advocate,” says Kenneth Walz, Ph.D., who works on the Wisconsin K-12 Energy Education Program at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point. Walz, who teaches chemistry, engineering and renew- able energy at Madison Area Technical College, also serves as its director of the Center for Renewable Energy Advanced Technological Education. While K-12 environmental education
still has no specifi c niche in curriculum, according to a case study of T e National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine, numerous groups and educators are working to ensure the next generation is prepared for the environmental chal- lenges it will certainly face.
26 Austin Area Edition
AustinAwakenings.com
by Yvette C. Hammett Today’s educators believe hands-on
learning will prepare Generation Z and those that follow to look for solutions and even seek active roles to implement them. Aaron Baker, a Sussex, New Jersey, advanced placement environmental science instructor and a two-time winner of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Region 2 Presidential Innovation Award, says the key to getting through to the next generation is showing them a problem that’s close to home that they can touch and feel, and then relating it to a global issue. “A major part of my philosophy for
environmental education is to try to engage students in environmental issues in our own community,” Baker says. “We collaborate with the Wallkill River Watershed Manage- ment Group to restore riparian areas and increase biological diversity.” T e high school students have planted
more than 750 trees in the last three years along the creek that runs right below their school. “T is type of hands-on work not only has a direct relationship to their lives here in Sussex County, but is also relevant to similar issues on a global scale.”
photos by Aaron Baker
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