Environmental education connects classroom learning to the real world
Environmental literacy connects classroom learning to the real world, improves student achievement in core subject areas and enhances critical thinking and basic life skills. Environmental literacy helps students develop a general awareness of the relationship between the environment and human life, acquire knowledge and understanding of human and natural systems and processes, imbue attitudes of appreciation and concern for the environment, hone problem solving and critical thinking skills and enlarge capacity for personal and collective action and civic participation.