An Overview Of Our Solution
Education is the world’s most powerful tool of change. My proposal is to develop an inter-disciplinary. S.T.E.A.M. integrated, educational outreach curriculum focused on environmental and ecological issues. This comprehensive program will give educators, communities, homeschoolers, and corporations the knowledge, resources, supports, and tools they need to educate, create an awareness with, and empower youth with knowledge of environmental and ecological challenges, and the voice to be the change. My Environmental and Ecological Educational Outreach Program can have EXPONENTIAL impact. Each learner connected with this learning can make their mark , inspire others ,and be part of a positive global change. I urge you to consider my ideas and my philosophy of using education as a tool for voice, action, and change.
- Population Impacted: Global Education 10,000+++
- Continent: North America
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Curriculum with a Cause has observed concerns in a variety of areas. These areas are all interconnected. The goal is to start educating about issues; with education, comes varied problem-solving form a variety of sources, on all fronts from many view points. It takes a village. Specie Endangerment and Extinction—There continues to be a rise in endangered animal and extinction rates due to poaching, habitat fragmentation and deforestation form slash and burn agriculture, mining, and cattle raising. This causes compounding problems in ecosystems, the water cycle, food webs—it throws off the balance of everything. Educating on this topic, with clarification of causes will start the dialogue about solutions and actions. Like Sudan, once a specie is gone, the enormity settles in. We need to prevent these extinction situations. Tree Loss— Deforestation rates are not limited to rainforest; we are losing large areas of vital green space. With the loss of green space—trees, there is increased
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Education Program targeted to educators, homeschoolers, communities, and corporations to create an
awareness of environmental and ecological issues.
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Target— Educators, Homeschoolers—Encourage educators to implement this program because it will help them make a difference in the lives of their students and the health of the the world. As an educator, I was always looking for ways to engage my students in real-world, relevant learning. I could never find the resources, so that is why I started creating environmental and ecological curriculum. By engaging educators with a solution to their problem, engagement, and resources, they will readily take the opportunity to utilize this program.
Target—Student—Appeal to students’ sense to do good, make a difference, engage in learning that is not worksheet based. During my 20+ years of teaching, I have never had to persuade a student to get engaged with a cause, let alone environmental and ecological learning. The WOW factor is already built in with this method of teaching.
Target—Corporations and Communites—Of course communities want to do good and support their people. The persuasion here is the availability of learning materials, outlines, and examples of how they can EASILY engage their community to help a cause. This program is free, supported, and brings people together. Corporations budget large amounts of resources each year for any type of outreach program. From a PR perspective, they want to give back to their communities, do good, take credit for it, and get their name out there. They do not always have educational departments on staff to create
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