Event Title
Teaching Karst Through Environmental Education
Session Type
Workshop session
Start Date
20-8-2020 10:00 AM
Description
Facilitators: Jennifer Shackelford, Education Specialist, Mammoth Cave National Park and Jeanine Huss, Professor, School of Teacher Education, WKU
Teaching the youth of the world about karst areas is very important. We want to encourage people to make good choices with our environment, so caves and groundwater are not negatively impacted. By teaching youth about caves and karst we are making a positive long term investment in the future of our karst regions. This workshop presented various ways to teach about cave and karst areas to different age groups and allowed participants to discuss challenges encountered within their own programs and collectively brainstorm solutions. Anyone interested in educational karst programming was encouraged to attend. Participants left the session with examples of 4th and 5th grade educational programming from Mammoth Cave National Park and links to kindergarten through middle school curriculum.
Recommended Citation
Shackelford, Jennifer and Huss, Jeanine, "Teaching Karst Through Environmental Education" (2020). Conservation of Fragile Karst Resources Proceedings. 2.
https://digitalcommons.wku.edu/con_karst_res_proc/con_karst_pro_2020/day_three/2
Teaching Karst Through Environmental Education
Facilitators: Jennifer Shackelford, Education Specialist, Mammoth Cave National Park and Jeanine Huss, Professor, School of Teacher Education, WKU
Teaching the youth of the world about karst areas is very important. We want to encourage people to make good choices with our environment, so caves and groundwater are not negatively impacted. By teaching youth about caves and karst we are making a positive long term investment in the future of our karst regions. This workshop presented various ways to teach about cave and karst areas to different age groups and allowed participants to discuss challenges encountered within their own programs and collectively brainstorm solutions. Anyone interested in educational karst programming was encouraged to attend. Participants left the session with examples of 4th and 5th grade educational programming from Mammoth Cave National Park and links to kindergarten through middle school curriculum.
Comments
This presentation was part of the Workshops Session:
Thematic workshops facilitate collaboration between international resource protection programs and to inform karst conservation, sustainable development, and community involvement efforts in the world’s premier karst regions. Workshops are 1.5-hour blocks of time that were organized to achieve a specific outcome.