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DRAFT ND C2E2 2018-2022 ND Environmental Literacy Plan

ND C2E2 2013-17 Strategic State Plan

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ND C2E2 2006-10 Strategic State Plan

File Size: 664 kb

EE Strategic State Plan 1995 1st Step

File Size: 1350 kb

 MOU 2018 Signature Sheet for C2E2

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This page can be printed off, signed, dated, and returned to:

ND C2E2

PO Box 782

Bismarck, ND 58502.

We would love to have you join us!

MOU 2006 Members

Background

The environmental concerns that face North Dakota demand that together we think deeply about how to maintain a future that is sustainable, healthy, prosperous, and equitable for this generation and generations to come. Developing and implementing solutions to these challenges requires an environmentally literate citizenry that has the skills to understand, think critically about, and address existing and future natural and cultural resource issues.

The creation of this Environmental Literacy Plan involves volunteers from across the state who care about North Dakota and our long-term efforts to sustain our state’s quality of life.

We live in an era of easy access to technology, where it is often simpler for students to stay indoors than to venture outdoors and discover how to learn from and engage with the natural world around them. Fostering stewards of all ages with environmental literacy skills is essential for meeting 21st Century needs, such as questioning, investigating, defining problems, analyzing, interpreting, reasoning, developing conclusions, and solving problems. Environmental education offers an engaging platform for gaining and applying knowledge and skills through project-based activities involving cooperative learning in science, technology, engineering, arts, and mathematics (STEAM).

To achieve our goals, we need the collaborative support and resources of a broad cross-section of the state, including educators and administrators from the formal education system; informal educators from agencies and organizations; parents and community members who understand the needs of their students; and leaders from higher education. We must all invest our very best efforts and people for the future of our children and for North Dakota’s prosperity, equity, and resource sustainability. Please join us!

The plan also provides inspiration and a means of measuring progress towards common goals. It encourages efforts by stake-holders to be mutually supportive and complementary of each other, rather than duplicative and competitive.

To be effective, any plan must be visionary enough to provide a strong foundation, but also flexible enough to change over time as circumstances change and opportunities arise. This plan is a "living document" and will be used:

• To define a vision for environmental literacy in North Dakota.
• To facilitate interaction, cooperation and communication among numerous schools, agencies and organizations.
• To maximize the effectiveness of human and material environmental education resources.
• To alert more North Dakotans to the importance of EE in the state, and to encourage their involvement.

See the Plans on the left