Benefits of Environmental Education References

¹ Alberta Education Ministerial Order on Student Learning (#001/2013) http://education.alberta.ca/department/policy/standards/goals.aspx

² Lieberman & Hoody 1998; Bartosh 2003; SEER 2000 and 2005; NEETF 2000

³ Matsuoka, R. 2008. High School Landscapes and Student Performance. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan

⁴ Fjortoft, I. 2001. The natural environment as a playground for children: the impact of outdoor play activities in pre-primary schoolchildren. Early Childhood Education Journal 29(20). pp 111-117

⁵ Pyle,  R. 2002. Eden in a Vacant Lot: Special Places, Species and Kids in Community of Life. Children and Nature: Psychological, Sociocultural and Evolutionary Investigations. Kahn, P.H. and Kellert, S.R. Cambridge: MIT Press

⁶ Ernst, J., and Monroe, M. 2004. The effect of environment-based education on students’ critical thinking skills and disposition toward critical thinking. Environmental Education Research 10(4)

⁷ Mannion, G., Adey, C., and Lynch, J. 2010. Intergenerational Place-based Education: where schools, communities and nature meet. Stirling: University of Stirling for Scottish Centre for Intergenerational Practice.

⁸ Falco, E., 2004. Environment-based Education: Improving Attitudes and Academics for Adolescents. Evaluation Report for South Carolina Department of Education

⁹ Hartig, T., Evans, G., Jamner, L., Davis, D and Garling. T. 2003. Tracking restoration in natural and urban field settings. Journal of Environmental Psychology 23(2).

¹⁰ Gladwell, V., Brown, D., Wood, D., Sandercock, G. and Barton, J. 2013. The great outdoors: how a green exercise environment can benefit all. Extreme Physiology & Medicine. 2:3

¹¹ Bell, J., Wilson, J. and Lui, G. 2008. Neighborhood greenness and 2-year changes in body mass index of children and youth. American Journal of Preventive Medicine 35(6).

¹² Taylor, A., and Kuo, F. 2006. Is contact with nature important for healthy child development? State of the evidence. In C. Spencer & M. Blades (Eds.), Children and Their Environments. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. pp 124-140

¹³ Thompson, C., Aspinall, P., and Montarzino, A. 2008. Adult visits to green places and the significance of childhood experience. Environment and Behaviour 40(1). pp 31-49

¹⁴ Peter Watson, the current Deputy Minister of the Alberta Executive Council, said this when he was Deputy Minister, Alberta Environment ¹⁵ http://education.alberta.ca/teachers/aisi/themes/literacy.aspx