Environmental Education
Plan and deliver best-in-class environmental education experiences based on current best practice standards
Effectively Advance Environmental Sustainability Through Education
The best environmental education programs use the most advanced and current thinking in environmental curriculum design and pedagogy, backed by research and rigorous analysis.
Viristar can help you access these findings and best practices in environmental education, and incorporate them into your planning, training, evaluations, and program delivery.
What Is Environmental Education?
Environmental education is a learning process designed to lead to a sustainable and equitable future.
Environmental education increases people’s knowledge and awareness about the environment and its associated challenges, develops the necessary skills and expertise to address the challenges, and fosters attitudes, motivations, and commitments to make informed decisions and take responsible action.
Whether your environmental education activities are part of an adventure or recreation experience, environmental learning center, outdoor school, nature center, or elsewhere, Viristar can help your EE program be well-designed and effective.
The Viristar Advantage
Use Viristar’s years of experience in environmental education program design to help you deliver well-designed, high-impact EE experiences. Our staff’s experience in the environmental education field includes:
- Providing multi-day environmental education curriculum development training in Asia to National Park officials, Forestry Bureau specialists, and outdoor program providers
- Delivering environmental education program design training and consultation to natural history museum specialists in California USA
- Developing environmental education curriculum for an international outdoor industry association
- Developing written training resources for incorporating environmental education into outdoor education/recreation programs
- Training nature center administrators on safety and service quality procedures
- Writing field instructor handbook content for Thailand-based field science program
- Delivering environmental education training experiences in Southeast Asia to educators from East Asia, Australia and New Zealand
How Viristar Can Help
Viristar’s skilled consultants can support you in bringing your EE program to new heights of excellence. Our expert team can help you:
- Develop environmental education outcomes, lesson plans, assessments, and education methodology applications customized for your program
- Develop activities banks, teaching progressions, and facilitator manuals for environmental education
- Understand best practices for forest schools, informal education, and K-12 environmental education contexts
- Incorporate NAAEE Guidelines for Excellence into environmental education curricula
- Institute best practices to Justice, Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging (JEDI+B) in environmental education programs
- Design inquiry-based learning field science experiences
- Understand and include current research in environmental citizenship and sustainability into program design
