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The Field Museum’s Calumet Environmental Education Program (CEEP) is a new model of conservation education that translates science into action for students and educators in the Calumet region. CEEP is a pilot project supporting teachers and students from Washington High School and six of its eight feeder elementary schools. Students participate in a consecutive ladder of conservation education programs, linking and building process skills and knowledge grade level upon grade level. The three conservation education programs, Mighty Acorns (grades 4-6), Earth Force (grades 6-8), and UrbanWatch (grades 9-12), engage young people in scientific, hands-on learning about biodiversity and conservation, resulting in action projects in their own community.
CEEP uses local resources and nationally recognized program curricula to build students’ knowledge of Diversity of Life and Interdependence of Life, both concepts being developed as strand maps in the Atlas of Science Literacy, co-published by the American Association for Advancement of Science and the National Science Teachers Association. Project 2061’s Atlas of Science Literacy strand maps demonstrate how knowledge and skills build from year to year to develop scientific literacy over time. CEEP staff and educators use these strand maps as a framework to connect K–12 learning goals for each of the three CEEP programs. To learn more about Project 2061’s Atlas of Science Literacy, refer to their website at www.project2061.org/tools/atlas/.
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