CONTENT – PEDAGOGY PLAN OUTLINE

(CRUZ, DAGDAG, ESPERANZATE, MANZON, MERCADO)

TOPICS:
 Environmental Literacy, Ecological Literacy, and Ecoliteracy
 Characteristics of an Eco-literate individual
 Importance of Eco-literacy
 Greening Initiatives in Schools
 Integrating Eco-literacy in the classroom

I. Content: What are the important information that you will include in your presentation?
 Environmental Literacy, Ecological Literacy, Ecoliteracy – For the discussion of
the Environmental and Ecological Literacy, and Ecoliteracy the reporters will made
mention of the following important question components:
i. What is Environmental Literacy?
o What are the 5 components of Environmental Literacy
 Awareness, Knowledge, Attitudes, Skills, and
Action.
ii. What is Ecological Literacy or Ecoliteracy?
iii. Are there any differences or similarities between Environmental Literacy
and Ecological Literacy?

 Characteristics of an Eco-literate individual – this topic will focus on the ways on

becoming a Eco-literate individual
i. Become an inquirer
ii. Become a reflective learner
iii. Become intelligently self-directed
iv. Become a morally responsible person
v. Become an ecologically responsible person
vi. Seek self-transcendence

 Importance of Eco-literacy – the discussion on this topic will focus on the

following:
i. Develop empathy for all forms of life
ii. Embrace sustainability as a community practice
iii. Make the invisible visible
iv. Anticipate unintended consequences
v. Understand how nature sustains life

 Greening Initiatives in Schools – The discussion on the Greening Initiatives in

Schools will focus on the following:
i. Defining each aspect that relates to Green School Goal
ii. Who are the people that will be involved in the School Greening
o students
o teachers
 o administrators
o staff (secretaries, teaching assistants, cleaning staff, maintenance
workers, school bus drivers, cafeteria workers, security guards)
o parents
o volunteers
o visitors (delivery people, guest speakers, attendees at school
dances or athletic events, facilities renters)
o suppliers
o neighbours
o school board trustees
o Green School advisors or mentors
iii. How to start the School Greening

 Integrating Eco-literacy in the classroom – The discussion for the topic

Integrating Eco-literacy in the classroom will focus on the strategies that the
teachers or educators can utilize to educate students’ about Eco – literacy and
become an Eco-literate individual:
i. Place-based Learning
ii. Project-based Learning
iii. Socratic Inquiry
iv. Experiential Learning
v. Interdisciplinary Learning

II. Pedagogy: What strategy will you use in the presentation of your topics?
 Matanglawin is a science-environmental educational show, and we are going to use
this "Matanglawin" TV show as strategy to present our topics. We will change
"Matanglawin" to "Matang-Nature" as referring to environmental literacy which
means the nature or behaviors of every student has.
 We choose "Sherwin Alexie Mercado" to act as an host of our "Matang-Nature"
strategy and his name instead of "Kuya Kim", we named him as "Kuya Win" and the
rest of our group will be a guest to Kuya Win's education show as a contributors to
present our topic.

III. Resources: what are the possible resources to be used in gathering information about your
assigned content?

 What Is Ecoliteracy ? | Nature’s Web Of Life. (2018, November 25). Nature’s Web of

Life. http://www.freshvista.com/2018/what_is_ecoliteracy/

 Five Ways to Develop “Ecoliteracy.” (2013). Greater Good.

https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/five_ways_to_develop_ecoliteracy

 Ecologically Literate Person -Dr. Tom Puk. (2022, September 13).

Visionsofsustainability.com.
 http://www.visionsofsustainability.com/2009/06/ecologically-literate-person-dr-

tom-puk.html
 ‌Teaching Strategies. (2015). Ecoliteracy.org.
https://www.ecoliteracy.org/article/teaching-strategies

 School Greening. (2022). Greenhearted.org. https://www.greenhearted.org/school-

greening.html

 Environmental Literacy: A Lot More than the 3 Rs - Fresh Ideas for Teaching. (2021,

April 15). Fresh Ideas for Teaching. https://blog.savvas.com/environmental-

literacy-a-lot-more-than-the-3-rs/

 McBride, B. B., Brewer, C. A., Berkowitz, A. R., & Borrie, W. T. (2013). Environmental

literacy, ecological literacy, ecoliteracy: What do we mean and how did we get

here? Ecosphere, 4(5), 1–20. https://doi.org/10.1890/es13-00075.1