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These pages suggest curriculum standards that may be used in association with TIES.  Corresponding TIES content  and concepts are recommended at the end of each standard.

Guiding Principals for Environmental Education: Environmental Education in New Jersey: A Plan of Action recommended by the New Jersey Commission on Environmental Education, 1993  For your State Standard, please go to: http://whyfiles.org/teach/state.html

1.  Consider the environment in its totality - natural and built, technological and social, economic, political, moral, cultural and historical, and health and aesthetic aspects.

2. Recognize the complexity and interrelated nature nature of environmental problems and their possible solutions.

3.  Be a learning process that continues through all stages of life.

4.  Be interdisciplinary, with a focus on critical-thinking and problem solving skills.

5. Emphasize active participation in prevention in environmental problems and working towards their solutions.

6. Examine global, national, regional and local issues as context for understanding and action.

7. Recognize human dependence on a healthy environment and human responsibility for assuring a sustainable future.

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