Walking lightly on the planet: a curriculum enrichment for the Pinelands Science Unit of the Cherry Hill Environmental Education Residency Program on Pinelands ecology

Miller, Elaine, Ruth Walking Lightly on the Planet: A Curriculum Enrichment for the Pinelands Science Unit of the Cherry Hill Environmental Education Residency Program on Pinelands Ecology. December 1995. Thesis Advisor: F Q. Patterson, Professor of Environmental Education This thesis project is designed to produce written curriculum materials in Pinelands ecology. The written curriculum materials produced is intended to be implemented as part of the Pinelands Science Unit of the Cherry Hill Environmental Education Residency Program, also known as CHEER. The written curriculum materials will include pre-trip, resident trip, and follow up assessment materials and activities that follow the given format for all Cherry Hill science units. The structure of such a program will allow, if desired, interdisciplinary coordination between science, math, English and ecology that correlate with the existing CHEER program. Through this experience it is expected that the sixth grade students in residence at the “site specific” location of Mt. Misery in the Pinelands National Reserve will develop greater first hand knowledge about Pinelands ecology. This will enable the student to be a more informed, responsible, and active citizen in the defense of the environment. Elaine Ruth Miller MINI ABSTRACT Walking Lightly on the Planet: A Curriculum Enrichment for the Pinelands Science Unit of the Cherry Hill Environmental Education Residency Program on Pinelands Ecology. December 1995. Thesis Advisor: F. G. Patterson, Professor of Environmental Education This thesis project consists of pre-trip, residence, and follow up assessment materials and activities designed for the Cherry Hill Environmental Education Residency Program, also known as CHEER, The purpose of this thesis is to develop written curriculum materials that correlate with the existing CHEER program which teaches Pinelands ecology to sixth grade students in residence at the “site-specific” location of Mt. Misery in the Pinelands National Reserve.