Material is created to promote sustainable development topics in all subjects.
Completing curriculum tasks, it is essential to push children's cognitive activities from known to the unknown, from the simplest to the most complex.
• World learning nominations; simple classification of skills and social behavior techniques and forms of learning: what is good, what bad, what to do and what not;
• To use perception skills and knowledge in certain situations as in samples; the understanding of basic principles;
• Understanding of the environment as a whole; use the gained skills for new unknown situations; the ability to analyze, synthesize, justify and defend their views. Moving towards the formation of behavior patterns in children that characterizes the children’s ability to analyze what is happening, solve problems, express assumptions and create their own ideas, forming a positive attitude.
Author: Foundation for Environmental Education
Year: 2008
Languages: Latvian
Typology of education resource : Learning unit
GCE Issues: Environment
Author: Foundation for Environmental Education
Specific sub-thematic area(s): Energy Waste Climate changes
Key word(s):
Tags:
climate changes , eco school , environment , healthy lifestyle , preschool
School subject(s)/field(s) of studies in which the educational resource can be used: Math, Arts and Crafts, Latvian, Social sciences, Science
Activity’ objectives:
• To increase children’s ability to see problems, their causes, find solutions, analyze and make decisions;
• To raise children’s awareness of the environment issues caused by the production of energy;
• To increase the understanding of how to reduce the amount of waste;
• To promote environment-friendly activities.
Pupils’ learning competences (SUBJECT- specific) addressed: Be aware of yourself in the environment and its interaction with you; Learning about the natural environment, to gain an idea of its relationship with the global world; To improve the ability to cooperate.
Pupils’ learning competences (CGE) addressed: Thinking and action in relation to sustainable development; - Connect the learner to their local and global spheres of influence
Methodology: Cooperative-learning, Problem-based learning, Input-orientation, Philosophy for children, Debate (activity or competition or else), Simulation method, World-links method
Age range: 6-7
Link to website: http://www.videsfonds.lv/documents/ekoskolas-metodiskais-materials.pdf