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Land Stewardship Centre of Canada
We help deliver on these Framework outcomes:
Outcome 1-4: EE stakeholders meet regularly and communicate about their work and their delivery on Framework
Outcome 1-7: Collaborative work helps advance environmental education within the groups’ chosen focus.
Outcome 2-4: Information about activities and opportunities circulate more readily within the formal EE community
Outcome 3-4: EE stakeholders determine the degree to which the existing school curriculum can deliver EE – and where the gaps are
Outcome 3-6: More environmental education outcomes in emerging curriculum
View the most recent update on new projects that deliver on these outcomes>>
What we are currently doing to deliver on the outcomes:
- In 2008, we provided biodiversity information packs to Inside Education for their Summer Institutes for teachers, including links to our new biodiversity webpage with a ‘what’s on in Alberta’ for learning about biodiversity and accessing related information sources and activities.
- Currently we provide an on-line clearinghouse of information on land
stewardship through our Land Stewardship Resource Centre website,
including information on stewardship, biodiversity, ecological goods
and services, and links to on-line stewardship related games,
challenges and conservation calculators.
- We address EE needs by offering presentations to community audiences such as Watersheds 101, From Land to Table: Where Does Our Food Come From? and Wetlands- Productive Members of Society (for agricultural producers).
- We work through partnerships, for example the ASN and Watershed Stewardship grant program
- We conduct Needs Assessments and gaps analysis to determine the degree to which existing school curriculum can deliver EE and to correlate this to non-formal educational lessons from other places where such work has been done (i.e. Scotland and Honduras) - including internal gaps analysis of our environmental outreach program
In the future we plan to deliver on the outcomes by:
- Help identify topics (from gaps analysis) for collaborative education intitiatives with other partners
- Help identify gaps and links within the scientific community and government
- Identify what's going on in non-formal environmental education, including resources, products, programs in Alberta, best practices both within and outside Alberta
- Possibly join a group or take the lead on developing a directory of non-formal environmental education products and services in Alberta, organized by topic, audience and collaborative projects, which can be put up on the ACEE website
- Curriculum support/books including case studies in which curriculum builds knowledge and appreciation of natural capital in generations to come
Measures of success:
- The creation of the above-mentioned directory will be used by non-formal audiences to know who to turn to and by non-formal educators to refer to existing resources and best practices, which they can promote, use and adapt for their circumstances
Find out more about our resources:
Detailed description of organization: check back here soon>>EE resources we offer: check back here soon>>
Contact: Sarah Hipkin, Land Stewardship Centre