What does the classroom environment teach?

We learn from our surroundings and therefore we need to be sensitive to the physical surroundings in which students learn.

What qualities in schools help students develop positive

attitudes toward the built and natural world?

What qualities help increase their environmental

awareness, action, and commitment?

Our students will be… the next designers, the next planners, the next caretakers for the

environment.

“Hurt not the earth, neither the sea, nor the

trees.” Revelation 7:3

“Abandon hope, all ye who enter here.”

Dante

“Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

Aldous Huxley

Policies & Standards National & State

“The first law of intelligent tinkering is to save all the

parts.”

Aldo Leopold

Gardner &The Big 7

Naturalist Humanist

“If you take a flower in your hand and really look at it,

it’s your world for the moment.”

Georgia O’Keeffe

“For every action there is an equal and opposite

reaction.” Sir Isaac Newton

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“When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the

world.” John Muir

“If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten

that we belong to each other.”

Mother Teresa

“Become the change you seek in the world.”

“Live simply that others may simply live.”

Gandhi

“It’s not that easy being green.”

Kermit

“Never underestimate the power of a few committed

people to change the world. Indeed, it is the

only thing that ever has.”

Margaret Mead

Peace