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Curriculum priorities and the stages of schooling

Environmental education

Environmental education in the CSF encompasses three major components:

• Education about the environment, which focuses on key knowledge and understanding of the ecological functioning of the environment. This is located primarily within the Science and SOSE key learning areas.
• Education in the environment. This provides for students to experience the environment and develops positive attitudes and values towards stewardship of the environment. Opportunities for education in the environment are found especially in SOSE and Health and Physical Education.
• Education for the environment, which focuses on students taking action for the protection or conservation of the environment. This includes the development of skills to enable students to be active and informed participants in environmental decision-making policy. This is located primarily in the SOSE, Science and HPE key learning areas.

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