The Importance of Environmental Science Education
A token of inspiration and perspective I offered to the teachers who attended CONAPAC's May 2017 Environmental Science Education Workshop. The opening speech. When astronaut Alan Shepard saw the earth from the moon for the first time, he wept, and since the first publication of the Earth in 1968, a global movement has begun with hundreds of conservation NGOs and thousands of projects to preserve nature. The awareness that we live in a beautiful world gives birth to the concern for the planet. With your help, we can awaken this awareness in thousands of students. You, as teachers, can gain by teaching environmental sciences. It was found in a study by the National Advisory Council on Environmental Education in the United States, that academic performance improved when students studied environmental science. They gained a perspective that provided them motivation, and they performed better, not only in general science, but mathematics, reading, and social studies. In addition, s