Passport to Texas

Passport to Texas from Texas Parks and Wildlife

Increasing environmental literacy is the goal of Project Wild, a nationally recognized and internationally distributed environmental and conservation education program.

When you think about literacy, you think well, people know how to read words and how to write words and then they know what to do with it. And the same thing with environmental literacy. They know the basic concepts, but they also understand what to do with that knowledge when they’ve got it.

Kiki Corry coordinates Project Wild for Texas Parks and Wildlife, and explains the value of growing the public’s environmental literacy.

It’s important to Texas Parks and Wildlife because we have these wildlife and land resources that are available to the public. And a public that understands them, knows how to use them, is going to make better decisions individually and as a society, and they’re also going to appreciate them more.

Corry trains the people who train the teachers. The teachers take what they’ve learned back to the classroom, where environmental literacy is interdisciplinary.

Lots of math and lots of language arts. Lots of social studies. There’s an argument that environmental education is almost more social studies than it is science because there’s so much of the geography, the history that’s all embedded in it.

Learn more about Project Wild at passporttotexas.org.

That’s our show…For Texas Parks and Wildlife…I’m Cecilia Nasti.

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