Article Review

Citation:

Palmer, C.N., & Muscara, C. (1991). Educating for the Environment. Educational Leadership. 48(7), 65-66.

Quotation:

“As more and more young people leave school without the necessary skills in science and technology to become successful citizens, our planet continues to lose many of its animal species and wilderness areas.” (Palmer & Muscara, 1991)

Reaction

This article really hit home for me because of my personal concern for the natural world and man’s destruction of it. In fact, this concern was one of my motivations for going in to teaching. The program that the National Audubon Society has started is a great way to get kids outside applying the science they learn in the classroom. The program also sets up classrooms with great multimedia resources, which as teachers, we could never have enough.

I really think the study of science, Earth and environmental science in particular, is going to be one of the most important practices that we can instill in our students. As our natural resources diminish, our food chain becomes threatened, and our waters contaminated, it will be scientific inquiry and technological design that we’ll turn too. In order prepare our students for their future, we must get them thinking about these situations. The National Audubon Society has made a great first step towards doing just that.