Sep 28, 2024
OHIO University Undergraduate Catalog 2023-2024

EDTE 4430 - Teaching Environmental Education


This course focuses on helping teacher candidates across the content areas to develop a deep understanding of issues in environmental education, how to integrate teaching about these issues into their own discipline, and how to effectively assess student knowledge of issues that affect the local, national and global environment.

Credit Hours: 3
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
Learning Outcomes:
  • Students will be able to use strategies for assessing student knowledge about environmental issues.
  • Students will be able to describe and apply various strategies for teaching P-12 students about environmental issues.
  • Students will be able to discuss issues in environmental education, including sustainability and environmental justice.
  • Students will be able to summarize the nature of environmental education.
  • Students will be able to defend the role of environmental leadership and advocacy.


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