Teaching Environmental Awareness in Classrooms

Since our world is facing many challenges such as drought, deforestation, climate change, pollution, floods etc, it is of great importance to introduce environmental awareness to students. Schools are definitely the best place to teach this. At this point, educators have a responsibility to include environmental issues in the curriculum to help students get introduced to the topic and look for some solutions. Below you may find certain articles and videos on how to achieve this goal. 

Nkwetisama, C. (2011). EFL/ESL and Environmental Education: Towards an Eco-Applied Linguistic Awareness in Cameroon.
https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ1159052.pdf

Erdem-Mete, D. (2018). Incorporating Environmental Education in English Language Teaching through Bloom’s Revised Taxonomy. https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/download/article-file/629563

Rachel, S. et al., (2018). Impacts of Outdoor Environmental Education on Teacher Reports of Attention, Behavior, and Learning Outcomes for Students With Emotional, Cognitive, and Behavioral Disabilities. Frontiers in Education. 
https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/feduc.2018.00046

Yeşilyurt, M., Özdemir Balakoğlu, M., & Erol, M. (2020). The Impact of Environmental Education Activities on Primary School Students’ Environmental Awareness and Visual Expressions. Qualitative Research in Education.
http://dx.doi.org/10.17583/qre.2020.5115