Abstract

Oftentimes, due to the involute nature of the issues involved, society leaves it up to the experts to tackle the environmental problems currently facing society. However, a more wholistic approach is needed to address these environmental issues in the timely fashion necessary. With a reductionist treatment of sustainable development issues, the concepts involved can be broken down to a level accessible by the public. WATERS: Watershed Awareness using Technology and Environmental Research for Sustainability, is a 10-lesson watershed sustainability curriculum directed at middle school students. Using online, classroom, and field-based components, WATERS seeks to make watershed sustainability and conservation an accessible topic for students around the United States, hoping to create a generation of Environmentally Literate citizens who have the knowledge and desire to tackle the pressing issues facing the natural world around them. While the complete WATERS curriculum consists of ten lessons, this article will describe a 5E sequence that consists of four of the ten lessons.

摘要

通常，由于所涉及问题的内卷性，社会将其留给专家来解决当前社会面临的环境问题。然而，需要一种更全面的方法来及时解决这些环境问题。通过对可持续发展问题的简化处理，所涉及的概念可以分解到公众可以理解的水平。水域：利用技术和环境研究促进可持续发展的流域意识，是针对中学生的 10 节流域可持续发展课程。使用在线、课堂和基于现场的组件，WATERS 力求使流域的可持续性和保护成为美国各地学生可以理解的主题，希望培养一代具有环境素养的公民，他们有知识并渴望解决周围自然世界面临的紧迫问题。虽然完整的 WATERS 课程由十课组成，但本文将描述由十课中的四课组成的 5E 序列。