Environmental Education

For Students (7-15)

 

 

Green Quote

Many things can wait,

The child cannot,

Right now his bones are being formed,

His senses are being developed.

To him, we cannot say tomorrow,

His name is ——Today

 

What Is Environmental Education?

Environmental education (”EE”) refers to organized efforts to teach about how natural environments function and, particularly, how human beings can manage their behavior and ecosystems in order to live sustainably. The term is often used to imply education within the school system, from primary to post-secondary. However, it is sometimes used more broadly to include all efforts to educate the public and other audiences, including print materials, websites, media campaigns, etc. Related disciplines include outdoor education and experiential education.

Why Environmental Education is Important for Children?

Environmental education for children is critically important and should start before school begins. Early environmental education experiences help shape children’s values, perspectives, and understanding of the environment and how to interact with it. Safwan Foundation aims to engage 7-15 year old children on how to make respectful, conscious decisions about the planet in which they live and to understand how they can make a difference in environmental quality and biodiversity issues.

The Issues Safwan Foundation dealt with:

Climate change — Global warming • Fossil fuels • Sea level rise • Greenhouse gas

Bio-Diversity Conservation — Species extinction • Pollinator decline • extinction event • Invasive species • Poaching • Endangered species

Energy — Energy conservation • Renewable energy • Efficient energy use •

Water Resources Conservation: Wise use of water.role of mosses. Wetlands Conservation

Intensive Farming — Overgrazing • Irrigation

Land degradation — Land pollution • Desertification

Soil — Soil conservation • Soil erosion • Soil contamination

Land use — Urban sprawl • Habitat fragmentation • Habitat destruction

Ozone depletion — CFC

Pollution — Light pollution • Noise pollution • Visual pollution

Water pollution — Acid rain • Oil spills

Thermal pollution — Ship pollution • Industrialization • Urban runoff

Air pollution — Smoke • Indoor air quality • Volatile organic compound

Resource depletion — Exploitation of natural resources

Consumerism — Consumer capitalism • Over-consumption

Logging — Clear cutting • Deforestation • Illegal logging

The Solution

The Safwan Foundation has a special knack of interest toward-writing for the up coming youth. Throughout the world, literature for children is produced specifically from one channel or another to keep them intact with the world.

The need of the hour is to aware young people of their surroundings especially about environment. Our specialty is that we write about biological diversity, environment and man and “psychological reasoning of relations between man and nature” in a story-telling—interesting style for the most vital age group 7-15 years. We teach them in their own language considering the fact that environmental issues are local but teach the children with global perspective because today’s child is a global citizen.

Teacher’s Resources

Safwan Foundation has developed the teachers resources in the form of “Environmental Education Guidelines Manuals”, Field Activity Guide,etc to help the teachers community to coup with the problems.

Rural Children: Our Prime Focus

In Pakistan 36.9 million students are awaiting such stuff on environment. The majority of the children live in rural areas.Million and million children are sauntering aimlessly in the pitch darkness of ignorance from dawn to dusk due to lack of opportunities.These children are posing the picture of restlessness, helplessness, the worst monetary troubles and they have been a prey of utter neglect by our own institutions.

Safwan Foundation strove hard to change the mislead aspect of life into gleaming ray of sanguine hope for its improvements and amendments. Although the environment and bio-diversity are considered the most complex phenomenon while educating the students yet we have made it simplify enough to understand easily.

Quote of the day

 “Our environment, the world in which we live and work, is a mirror of our attitudes and expectations.”