This course is designed to provide early childhood formal and non-formal educators with an introduction to environmental education, experience with early childhood environmental education activities, and the skills necessary to integrate early childhood environmental education into their classrooms, centers, family child care homes, and programs. Early childhood can extend from birth to age eight. For the purpose of this course, we primarily focus on ages three to six.
Welcome to Accessible by Nature: Designing EE to Support All Learners
This course uses the Universal Design for Learning (UDL) framework to guide the design of learning environments that are accessible and challenging for all, rather than making modifications for individual students. UDL improves and optimizes teaching and learning for all people based on scientific insights into how humans learn, giving all students equal opportunity to succeed. This course is designed to encourage you to reflect deeply on your practice to focus on how you plan and teach to support all learners. The course content and associated assignments are geared towards practicing environmental and outdoor educators. We hope this course will inspire you to strengthen your pedagogical practices so they are more welcoming, inclusive, and accessible.
This course content was designed by Michelle Silvers of Silver’s Lining PLLC, Estrella Risinger with the Association for Environmental and Outdoor Education (AEOE), Michelle Pearce and Lauren Pyle with the Environmental Educators of North Carolina (EENC), with contributions from Rebekah Jones and the Cooper Center for Environmental Learning.
Welcome to Foundations in Environmental Education. This course is designed to provide educators with an introduction to keystone knowledge, skills, and methodology behind best practices for educators in the field of environmental education.
The Foundations in Environmental Education course is made up of 7 online, asynchronous modules including an introduction to EEAI and scavenger hunt. The course is designed to provide 6-10 hours of participant learning, reflection, and work. Each module is designed to build on each other in effort to provide a rich perspective of both the history and future outlook of environmental education.
