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We all know that teachers need to use their state academic standards.  We also know that environmental education content and skills are well-represented in most state academic standards.  It's just a matter of finding the links. One way of making these links explicit is to use Excellence in Environmental Education: Guidelines for Learning (K-12) as the framework and to create a crosswalk with your state academic standards.

Aligning your state academic standards to the EE Guidelines for Learning (K-12) will help teachers and other educators design and implement a comprehensive, cohesive, standards-based environmental education curriculum. It will help educators map out the best ways of infusing environmental education throughout the school year.

Additionally, this crosswalk can be a useful first step in the development of your state Environmental Literacy Plan (NCLI). Using the EE Guidelines for Learning (K-12)as your framework, you will identify the state academic standards that support environmental education. Importantly, you will also identify the gaps! This can give you a road map for working with your state department of education.

To provide examples, attached are crosswalks between the K-12 EE Guidelines for Learning and the state academic standards for Oregon, Maine and Texas. Let us know if you have created a crosswalk and we will share it here too.

See the other posts that align the K-12 Learner Guidelines with the Ocean Literacy Principles and the Climate Literacy Principles.

STATE CROSSWALKS

Oregon:

EE and Oregon Achievement Standards Crosswalk

Maine:

Maine 4th Grade Crosswalk

Maine 8th Grade Crosswalk

Maine 11th Grade Crosswalk

Texas  Crosswalk:

Alignment of Guidelines with TEKS and College & Career Readiness

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Crosswalk of EE K-12 Guidelines with Climate Literacy

Crosswalk of EE K-12 Guidelines with Ocean Literacy

Crosswalk of EE K-12 Guidelines with Ocean, Climate and Energy Literacy Principles

Attached is a crosswalk between the Ocean Literacy: Essential Principles of Ocean Sciences and Excellence in Environmental Education: Guidelines for Learning (K-12).  The crosswalk is aligned at the 12th grade level. For your convenience, the Ocean Literacy Principles are also attached.

Ocean Literacy: Essential Principles of Ocean Sciences

Ocean Literacy Crosswalk

Attached is a draft alignment or crosswalk between Climate Literacy: Essential  Principles of Climate Science and Excellence in Environmental Education: Guidelines for Learners (K-12).  The crosswalk is referenced for the 8th and 12th grade levels. For your convenience, a copy of the Climate Literacy Principles brochure is also posted.

Climate Literacy: Essential Principles of Climate Science

Climate Literacy Crosswalk

Crosswalks or alignments can be used to show how different standards or frameworks relate to one another. These crosswalks/alignments can help the user develop curriculum materials and instructional strategies. They can be used to justify the use of a particular lesson plan in a standards based curriculum. They can be used to identify where concepts/skills overlap or where gaps exist, particularly between EE and state academic standards.

Please post alignments/crosswalks between the Guidelines and instructional materials, standards, essential principles, etc. that you have developed or find helpful. 

To get things started, four crosswalks have been posted to this topic that show the alignments of the Guidelines for Learners (K-12), Oregon Academic Standards, the Climate Literacy Principles and the Ocean Literacy Principles.