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After tours – where do we go?

SMS Environmental Education 2012-2013. After tours – where do we go?. Grade school tours were awesome!. You were fantastic about putting the kids needs above your won needs. Thanks for all of your great work. We will host grade school kids again – they’ll be back in march.

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After tours – where do we go?

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  1. SMS Environmental Education 2012-2013 After tours – where do we go?

  2. Grade school tours were awesome! • You were fantastic about putting the kids needs above your won needs. Thanks for all of your great work. • We will host grade school kids again – they’ll be back in march. • Then what do we do now ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?

  3. WE WILL EMBARK ON AN INTELLECTUAL JOURNEY

  4. What are the hopes for this journey? • To be able to think critically • Can we think for ourselves? • Why is it important to think for yourself? • How do you learn to think for yourself? • We will try to look at the world from a different perspective • Read and discuss • Takes at least two for this journey

  5. Let’s start reading right now • Read and be ready to discuss the “PETA Commando” article

  6. Don’t Believe Everything You Read • Should you believe everything you read? • internet, newspaper, magazine, book • Should you believe everything you hear? • gossip • Should you believe everything you see? • Einstein, viewing of criminal at the crime scene

  7. The flip side of D.B.E.Y.R. • You can easily get caught in the trap of not believing anything new if you take Don’t believe everything you read, see, hear to heart – so . . . . • How do you tell if you should incorporate new information, ideas, concepts into your understanding of the world? • Everybody has a story to tell – presidential campaign 2012

  8. Steps to evaluate new info and ideas • Really try and understand what the person, author . . . Are trying to tell you. • Does it make sense to you? • What is the source of this info? • Can you verify the information from another reliable source another 2, 3, 4 reliable sources?

  9. Why is critical thinking important? • you become your own intellectual entity (leader not follower) • broaden your understanding of the world http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=030gZ-A8hss • vote – a representative democracy is only going to be as effective if an educated and informed public puts quality people in charge of making our governments decisions

  10. Science vs. Politics • Ideally, Science looks at what is actually there • Politics has the ability to move away and base policy and laws not on what is actually there but what people think should be there • With critical thinking we need to be aware that everyone has a bias, agenda

  11. One Big Problem with the world today: • Science and much of our technological advancements that make life so great (climate control, airplanes, internet, fast food drive through) depend on a scientific look at the world • Global Warming • Mountain Lions in Kansas

  12. Time for you to think . . . • 1. When have you run into thought or ideas that goes against what is actually there? • 2. When have you had to use your powers of critical thinking? • What does this video clip have to do with critical thinking? http://www.ted.com/talks/kathryn_schulz_on_being_wrong.html *****There is a difference between memorizing facts and actually thinking and using those facts***** Let’s try another – critical thinking about education: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDZFcDGpL4U

  13. What is Environmental Science? • It’s a little bit of everything • Regular sciences (biology, ecology, chemistry . . .) • Social sciences (sociology, economics, psychology . . .) • Politics, Law • Just about anything you can study in school has to do with Environmental Science. • Trying to create a person that has the “jack of all trades but master of none” approach to academia • Basically Environmental Science takes in info and tries to make quality decisions based on that info

  14. Our first two terms: • Biocentric – “life centered” view of the world • Anthropocentric – “human centered” view of the world • It’s a continuum thing – not an either/or thing

  15. THE Question that puts anthro/bio – centric views into perspective: • Is the world made for man? or • Is man part of the world? • Our scientific view (taking note of what is actually there) shows us one answer just as our culture (parents, media, schools, religion) guides us to another answer. • There is not a right or a wrong view of the world.

  16. What are the big themes we cover in Environmental Science? • Sustainability • Our whole way of living is not sustainable • This is a major issue that nobody wants to talk about • Is it a problem or should we push ahead and just keep rowing the boat? • Human Population growth – 10-31-11 = 7 Billion Humans • Energy • Evolution/Sexual Selection • Ecology • Read a book, Ishmael

  17. “To Ride an Elevator” • Make a list of things that are necessary, optionaland taboo when it comes to the act of riding an elevator.

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