Wetlands Edge

  Environmental Center

 
Program Goals

• To create an understanding of the natural environment and the interrelationships among living things

• To promote sound stewardship and wise management of our natural resources for the welfare of man and all living things

• To create an awareness of global, national, and local environmental problems and foster sound decision making regarding their solutions

• To enrich, vitalize, extend, complement and culminate all content areas of the K-12 school curriculum by means of firsthand observation and direct experience outside the classroom

• To develop programs which are constructivist, meeting students where they are, inquiry based, and directly correlated to the National Science Standards, HASP, the Alabama Course of Study and High School Graduation Exam requirements

• To emphasize the concept of biodiversity, a global issue with far-reaching implications that encompasses sustainable development, corporate and social environmental accountability and relationships with local and indigenous communities.

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February 23, 2009