Environmental Learning and Experience
An Interdisciplinary Guide For Teachers (2007)
Acknowledgements
This guide is supplemented by websites that outline curriculum links with the B.C. Ministry of Education Integrated Resource Packages, provide lesson ideas, and identify educational resources. For further information please see:
BC Working Group on Sustainability Education
Environmental Educators Provincial Specialist Association
Many people contributed their expertise to this document. The project was headed by David Zandvliet (Simon Fraser University) and Richard Kool (Royal Roads University) and facilitated by Pierre Gilbert, Wael Afifi, Adrienne Gnidec and Richard V. DeMerchant from the Ministry of Education (Education Standards Branch). Many thanks to the hundreds of B.C. teachers and informal educators who gave us their ideas and feedback during the 16-month consultation process that preceded the completion of this framework. In addition to these contributors, we would like to thank the following individuals who contributed ideas or gave their feedback:
Jeanette Armstrong David Brown C.A. Bowers Diane Ehling Victor Elderton John Elson Bruce Ford Ruth Foster Bill Hammond Bob Jickling Peter Koci |
Genny Lau Nichole Marples Jolie Mayer-Smith Milton McClaren Selina Metcalfe Kerrie Morton Marlene Nelson Patrick Robertson Theresa Southam Johan Stroman
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Thanks also to the writing team for the original Ministry of Education document: Environmental Concepts in the Classroom (1995) that this guide revises: Donna Paproski, Susan Coelho, Richard Kool, David Denning, Gloria Snively and David Bateson, along with the many other contributors from school districts and institutions throughout the province.
