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    58 results for "environmental literacy":

    • Defining Report Card Indicator Thresholds to Achieve Healthy Outcomes
      Defining Report Card Indicator Thresholds to Achieve Healthy Outcomes
      ...is, from WWF - Mexico . She brought a new perspective to our discussion of report card thresholds and shared her environmental literacy presentation. Information about the course and other participants is available here . Ximena identified several...
    • Developing a vision for an integrated Darwin Harbour report card
      Developing a vision for an integrated Darwin Harbour report card
    • Discussion following Bill Dennison's seminar on Challenges and advantages of using citizen scientists for environmental monitoring
      Discussion following Bill Dennison's seminar on Challenges and advantages of using citizen scientists for environmental monitoring
      ...itted grant applications to the Chesapeake Bay Program and NOAA to support this activity has been an impediment. Environmental literacy was a topic of discussion, based on the Chesapeake Bay literacy slide. The concept of developing environmental l...
    • Drawing sketches and creating conceptual diagrams to communicate science
      Drawing sketches and creating conceptual diagrams to communicate science
      ...zapfel J, Milanese L. 1988. An examination of the environmental factors important to initiating and sustaining 'b...
    • Fatos importantes sobre a Baía de Guanabara
      Fatos importantes sobre a Baía de Guanabara
      Fatos importantes sobre a Baía de Guanabara ... "Environmental Literacy for Guanabara Bay, Brazil" (Portuguese translation by João Paulo Coimbra) Série ‘Aprendizado Ambiental' (Environ...
    • From the mountains to the prairies—discussing ecological drought in the North Central United States
      From the mountains to the prairies—discussing ecological drought in the North Central United States
    • Great Barrier Reef literacy
      Great Barrier Reef literacy
      Great Barrier Reef literacy ... The concept of environmental literacy derives from a series of programs that have established various literacy principles, for example, ocean literacy...
    • How can we include and legitimize other voices in science?
      How can we include and legitimize other voices in science?
      ...ing for legal protection of the environment. Communicate science strategically to promote science engagement and environmental literacy We need to frame our research in ways that allow people to connect with our main message. To do this, we should...
    • How to organize and run short, productive and fun scientific workshops
      How to organize and run short, productive and fun scientific workshops
      ...sed workshops, it is useful to develop a blog describing the essential attributes of the ecosystem, known as the environmental literacy . These blogs can be posted within a week or two of the workshop prior to the dissemination and editing of the w...
    • IAN attends CommOcean 2016 in Bruges, Belgium
      IAN attends CommOcean 2016 in Bruges, Belgium
      ... from all over the world convened with the common goal of advancing the field of science communication for ocean/environmental literacy and bridging the gap between scientists and formal and informal education. Official group photo of CommOcean 201...
    • In the Footsteps of Gengis Khan in the Mongolian Steppe: Part 3
      In the Footsteps of Gengis Khan in the Mongolian Steppe: Part 3
      ...then talked about a theory of change based on these report cards. We also introduced the concept of establishing environmental literacy principles for the Tuul River. We also performed stakeholder mapping by placing the names of different governmen...
    • Integrate, Apply and Network
      Integrate, Apply and Network
      ...National Park Service) booklets (e.g., science to action series with Conservation International ) development of environmental literacy principles, summarized as blog posts on the IAN website (e.g., Chesapeake Bay literacy, Great Barrier Reef liter...
    • Kick off workshop for Western Lake Erie report card project
      Kick off workshop for Western Lake Erie report card project
      ...mental organizations with expertise and interest in Western Lake Erie and its watershed. We discussed developing environmental literacy principles for Western Lake Erie and its watershed. We established that groups with high interest and influence...
    • Learning to operate the Mississippi River
      Learning to operate the Mississippi River
    • Nicholas Copernicus and the Copernican Revolution
      Nicholas Copernicus and the Copernican Revolution
      ...led Commentariolus in which he outlined seven assumptions or principles of a heliocentric system (not unlike the environmental literacy principles outlined in a previous blog ). Copernicus' tower at Frombork, where he lived and worked. Source: Wiki...
    • Persuasive Writing Skills: A Professional Development Session with John Sturtevant
      Persuasive Writing Skills: A Professional Development Session with John Sturtevant
      ...requires an attitude shift in composing presentation or written content. I like to think that our blog series on environmental literacy comes close to achieving this goal of providing readers with the essential facts that they need to know. It is s...
    • Reflections on teaching a global course on developing environmental report cards
      Reflections on teaching a global course on developing environmental report cards
      ...y provided a lot of insights and experience in their respective ecosystems, which came out in their introductory environmental literacy presentations, during class time discussions, and in their final presentations. It was a pleasure to learn about...
    • Sharing tools for stakeholder engagement and collaboration at the Chesapeake Watershed Forum
      Sharing tools for stakeholder engagement and collaboration at the Chesapeake Watershed Forum
      ...at translate into collective actions that protect environmental resources and improve the social, mental, and phy...ould have the added benefits of increasing public environmental stewardship and support of science or management...
    • Stakeholder workshop bring locals one step closer to a report card for the Tuul River Basin
      Stakeholder workshop bring locals one step closer to a report card for the Tuul River Basin
      ...the city of Uulanbaatar and an overview of the characteristics of the Tuul River Basin in Bill Dennison’s blog, ‘Environmental Literacy of the Tuul River, Mongolia’, here . As Bill didn’t cover this, I wanted to mention: flying to Mongolia is not a...
    • The Chesapeake Bay and the Baltic Sea: Adapting to Changing Climates in the New World and the Old
      The Chesapeake Bay and the Baltic Sea: Adapting to Changing Climates in the New World and the Old
      ...l partners3,5. The CBP's ability to specifically outline outreach oriented goals such as citizen stewardship and environmental literacy likely stems from its partners all falling under the same federal government6. HELCOM, is an especially impressi...
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