Press Release-Handbook on Urban Environmental Education
Hanoi – Education for Nature – Vietnam (ENV) has produced a new series of lesson plans for middle school children focused on urban environmental protection. These lesson plans, to be released in the Urban Environmental Education Handbook, were developed as part of ENV’s urban environmental education initiative, which has been active in nine Hanoi schools for the past two years.
The new educational resource was designed for teachers and includes eight lesson plans that target sixth grade students on issues ranging from air pollution to the wildlife trade. Each lesson plan was tested in Hanoi schools as part of a pilot project aimed at developing a curriculum for urban children.
ENV’s urban nature clubs run weekly in schools as an extracurricular activity. Though attendance is voluntary, 100% of students join in at most schools. Each lesson lasts about 45 minutes, and revolves around a central theme such as the waste and rubish, utilizing a combination of discussion, games, and activities to increase student understanding and awareness of the issue.
Lesson Plans
1. Introduction to Urban Nature Clubs
2. Nature and the environment, the Big Picture
3. Waste and Rubbish
4. Water pollution
5. Air pollution
6. The wildlife trade
7. The global environment
8. Summary lesson
Copies of The Urban Environmental Education Handbook will be distributed to teachers and other urban environmental education practitioners through the ENV Family Network.
ENV would like to thank the Embassy of the Netherlands for its support in producing this important environmental publication.
