Assessment 3 Environmental Education Project for Kindergarten Assessment 3 Environmental Education Project for Kindergarten

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Assessment overview

This assessment requires you to develop an environmental project based on a sustainability topic for a group of young children. You will design and present information about the project and the anticipated outcomes to be shared with parents or carers and the wider community in order to stimulate their interest in the children's learning and involvement in this project.

This assessment supportscourse learning outcomes K3, K4, K6, K8, S1, S2, S4, S5, S6, S7, A4 and A5.

Assessment details

This assessment is designed to enable you, as a pre-service teacher (PST), to demonstrate your understanding of pedagogical approaches and resources required to effectively implement environmental education with a kindergarten class. While you do not have to implement this assessment, you must consider what may evolve when planning and implementing a project with a kindergarten class. You will develop strategies to involve the education community in your environmental education project and disseminate project information and outcomes to parents, carers and the wider community.

Instructions and structure

Select the following headings to learn more about how to complete this assessment and what should be included in your project overview.

Instructions

To complete this assessment, work through the following steps:

Step 1: ChooseONEof the following topics to research and develop an overview of to be implemented in an educational setting:

• Litter-free lunch boxes
• Composting food scraps
• Conservation of water and energy
• Attracting native animals to the environment
• Reducing the amount of garbage in a classroom
• Establishing a child-friendly garden (plants, vegetables, herbs)

You will receive more information on these topics later on this page.

Step 2: Researchyour chosen topic anddevelopan overview that demonstrates your understanding of the topic, the teaching strategies involved and the practices required to develop skills in planning for learning and teaching.

Step 3: Writean overview of this project, identifying the considerations to plan and implement the environmental education project with the active involvement of children, teachers, families and the community. You should also identify how you would inform parents and carers of the project information and outcomes.

Structure

Your written overview of the project needs to include the following sections:

• The topic of your project
• Project curriculum link(s)

• The link(s) should be related to the purpose(s) of environmental education.
  • Introduction
• How will you introduce the topic to the children?
• How will you implement the topic using planned and unplanned experiences?
• What strategies will be involved and why?
• Be sure to adopt readings and relevant literature to support your justifications.
  • Information and resources
• Where will the information for this project be gathered?
• What resources will be required to carry out the topic?
  • Strategies
• The strategies that you will implement to involve the school community in the environmental education project
  • Outcomes
• How the project information and outcomes will be disseminated to the parents, carers and wider community.

Please note: The structure of your written overview can take any form as long as you include each of the listed sections. Take a look at the provided student exemplars for examples of ways to present your information.