Education and the environment : creating standards-based programs in schools and districts / Gerald A. Lieberman

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part One. Introducing environment-based education -- Chapter 1. Why the environment belongs in today's classrooms -- Chapter 2. Standards and the making of EBE -- Chapter 3. The benefits of EBE -- Chapter 4. Implementing EBE in a school, district, or state --Part Two. Creating and implementing an EBE program -- Chapter 5. Planning for success -- Chapter 6. Choosing an environmental context -- Chapter 7. Connecting standards to an environmental context -- Chapter 8. EBE instructional materials and resources -- Chapter 9. Student assessment and program evaluation.

Throughout most of human history people have lived in direct contact with nature, growing their own food, raising or killing animals to eat, using trees and stone to build homes, and using water for irrigation, household purposes, and transportation. Since the beginning of time, and long before the existence of formal systems of education, the most important thing humans taught their children was how to survive by exploiting nature's resources.