Roots of Awareness: Connecting Lessons with Environmental Science

In this course, you’ll explore practical, real-world strategies for bringing environmental science to life in your classroom. You’ll examine why environmental awareness matters for your students’ understanding of human impact on the planet, and you’ll walk away with concrete techniques for building lessons that spark genuine curiosity rather than passive note-taking. Along the way, you’ll learn how to create a “need to know” in your students, that inner pull to engage with a topic because it feels personally relevant, so that environmental concepts move from abstract facts to ideas your students actually care about and act on.

FORMAT: Self-Directed

DURATION: 1 Hour

AUTHOR(S): Cassandra Foster