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| May 23th 2013
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MSPWhat Is MSP?Because the core values of IBIS center around creating information mangement tools for conservation, and because solid environmental literacy among members of the next generation is critical for future conservation efforts, IBIS staff have partnered with scientists and educators to assist them in assesing environmental science literacy throughout the US. We have built a website to allow students to take literacy assessments online and then allow teachers and evaluators the ability to code responses to iteratively improve teaching approaches and learning progressions. This project is the blueprint for a program of research and development for a K-12 curriculum focusing on environmental science literacy—the capacity to understand and participate in evidence-based discussions of the effects of human actions on environmental systems. High school graduates who are literate in the environmental sciences should be able to engage in two practices that are essential for environmentally responsible citizenship. They should be able to understand and evaluate experts’ arguments about environmental issues, and they should be able to decide on policies and personal actions that are consistent with their environmental values. Environmental science literacy requires understanding of many aspects of science, including those addressed in this session: Chemical and physical change, carbon cycling, diversity and evolution by natural selection, and connecting human actions with environmental systems. These phenomena are currently addressed in many state and national standards documents and in school curricula, but typically they are addressed in disconnected ways—in different courses or in different units in the same course. We argue that they can fit together as a coherent conceptual domain that all of our citizens need to understand. In particular, understanding in all of these domains requires applying fundamental principles to processes in coupled human and natural systems
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