COURSE SYLLABUSCOURSE SYLLABUSElementary and Secondary EducationEDU 661 Workshops in Environmental Education Credit Hours: 1Joseph A. Baust, Sr., Ed.D.Murray State UniversityOffice: Alexander Hall 320Office Hours: Posted on Office DoorPhone: 270-762-2595E-Mail: [email protected]___________________________________________________________________________I. Title: EDU 661 - Workshops in Environmental Education ( 1 Credit Hour)II. Catalog Description: Selected workshops in environmental education. Repeatable to three hours. Graded on a Pass/Fail basis.III. Purposes: To provide formal structure for investigating the range of curriculum materials and activities presented by the interdisciplinary nature of environmental education. To further an objective approach to current environmental issues while helping students develop an environmental ethic through an active learning process. IV. Course Objectives:Each identified objective is followed by a number that identifies Kentucky Experience Teachers Standards. At the conclusion of the program each student will be able to: A. Relate current, regional and specific environmental education issues and place them in an active, hands-on format for their constituents; (Standard 2)B. Create, adapt, and adopt curriculum that integrates the disciplines and builds on a theme of environmental education; (Standards 1, 2, 3)C. Provide active, experiential models for essential learning in environmental education that intersects theCore Content for Assessment and the Program of Studies; (Standards 1, 3, 4, 5)D. Identify and make use of resource materials from local, state, and national agencies which support the environmental education curriculum; (Standards 1, 2, 3, 4)E. Construct a personal environmental ethic and definition of environmental education; ( Standard 2)F. Compare, contrast, analyze, and discern conflicting environmental claims; (Standard 2) V. Content Outline: Using the chosen topic, project, or problem to broaden the students' knowledge, understanding, awareness and potential for action will be impacted regarding the following:A. Current environmental issues at the local, state, national, and international levelsB. Balancing the issues and factsC. Sustainability and its impact on the environmentD. Activities to address issues and sustainability topicsE. Identify specific environmental education curriculum projects, and how these can become infused into the current Program of Studies and Core Content for Assessment being taught in the schoolsF. Model the use of hands-on, minds-on activities, their interdisciplinary nature, and their relationship to national standards in the disciplinesG. Understanding the Kentucky Environmental Education Master PlanH. Review of literature related to environmental educationI. Problem solving skills for conflict resolutionJ. Using technology as a tool for problem solving about the environmentVI. Instructional Activities: The class will include10-15 hours of direct instruction plus an independent project that will be constructed to show the connection between the workshop and the classroom. Each person will be responsible for effectively crafting a project that can be implemented in a formal or non-formal teaching/learning setting.Experiences in the field will be provided that relate not only the Core Content for Assessment and the Program of Studies, but includes modeling activities and programs that address various learning styles, Multiple Intelligences (especially The Naturalist) in a problem solving, hands-on approach. These may include programs and certification in the following. PLTWETWILDFLPLeopoldOBISESSENCEAgriculture In the ClassroomProject Adventure/Building Community/Team BuildingAdvanced Outdoor Classroom1850’s Farm and AdaptationsWater StudyWatershed StudyArts in the EnvironmentPhotography in the Environment (non-camera and camera)VII. Laboratory Experiences: Field trips to Land Between the Lakes, the 1850’s Farm, the Nature Station, the dams, wastewater treatment plants, land-fills, Saleto Center, the MeadWestvaco Resource Room of the Center for Environmental Education, the non-formal education community, including the NRCS, Fish and Wildlife, 4-H, and the Soil and Water Conservation Service. VIII. Resources:22Center for Environmental Education, MSU Department of AgricultureDepartment of Fish and Wildlife Resources4-HKentucky Association for Environmental EducationKentucky Division of WaterKentucky Environmental Education CouncilKentucky Natural Resources and Environmental Protection CabinetLand Between the Lakes – TVANational Resources Conservation ServiceSoil and Water Conservation ServiceWestern Kentucky Environmental Education ConsortiumIX. Grading Procedures: Active, positive, participation is the critical factor in the grade associated with workshops. Grades will be assigned on the basis of the quality of participation during the field portion ofthe workshop, on the basis of self-assessment as it relates to interaction, quality of products designed, and the quality of the follow-up activities provided.A. Each person will develop an independent project that will reflect not only the learning that takes placeduring the workshop but also independent reading and research as well as considerations about how the content and context can impact students either in a formal or non-formal teaching and learning setting.B. This project will be assessed on how well it integrates the skills, concepts, and ideas experienced during the workshop, demonstrates the proper infusion of these in a classroom teaching/learning experience, and implements national standards in environmental education.X. Attendance Policy: This course adheres to the policy published in the MSU Graduate Bulletin.XI. Academic Honesty Policy: Cheating, plagiarism (submitting another person’s materials as one’s own), or doing work for another person who will receive academic credit are all impermissible. This includes the use of unauthorized books, notebooks, or other sources in order to secure or give help during an examination, the unauthorized copying of examinations, assignments, reports, or term papers, or the presentation of unacknowledged materials as if it were the student’s own work. Disciplinary action may be taken beyond the academic discipline administered by the faculty member who teaches the course in which the cheating took place. (See University Graduate Bulletin.)XII.