Green Teacher - Diploma in Environmental Education

The Green Teacher is a unique capacity-building distance education course. This course will give teacher-learners an opportunity to empower themselves with knowledge and skills of effectively transacting education for environment and sustainable development in schools. This Course has been developed by the Centre of Excellence in Environmental Education (CEE) in India in partnership and with support from the Commonwealth of Learning (COL), Vancouver, Canada. You can also view these materials on the Commonwealth of Learning webpages.

There are 4 modules and each has a number of units. The individual units are available for download below:


 * Module 1: Basics of Ecology and Life Support Systems


 * Introduction
 * Unit 1: Earth: The Living Planet
 * Unit 2: Ecology, Populations and Species
 * Unit 3: Communities &amp; Interactions
 * Unit 4: Ecosystems and their Structure
 * Unit 5: Ecosystems Processes: Nutrient Cycles
 * Unit 6: Ecosystems Processes: Energy Flow
 * Unit 7: Evolution, Adaptation and Diversity

 


 * Module 2: Understanding Sustainable Development


 * Introduction
 * Unit 1: Environment &amp; Development
 * Unit 2: Biodiversity
 * Unit 3: Water
 * Unit 4: Agriculture
 * Unit 5: Energy
 * Unit 6: Industry
 * Unit 7: Urbanization
 * Module 3: Environmental Education in Schools


 * Introduction
 * Unit 1: Environmental Education: What and Why?
 * Unit 2: The Teacher as an Environmental Educator
 * Unit 3: Greening the Textbooks
 * Unit 4: Enriching the Classroom Experience
 * Unit 5: Creativity in EE
 * Unit 6: Nature as Teacher
 * Unit 7: From Awareness to Action
 * Unit 8: Thinking Back, Planning Ahead


 * Module 4: Resources and Opportunities for EE


 * Introduction
 * Unit 1: Visits for EE
 * Unit 2: The School and It's Environs
 * Unit 3: Bring the World into your Classroom: Media for EE
 * Unit 4: Camping and Excursions


 * Other materials
 * Learners' Handbook - this is not available to download but is available through Commonwealth of Learning's Information Resource Centre.
 * Facilitators' Handbook -this item is not available to download.