Bridging the gap between Mainstream and Environmental Education requires integrating Environmental concepts, literacy, and connection into standards-based curriculum. These interdisciplinary connections should be ingrained in everything students learn: 

• Science: explore core scientific principles, laws, and theories through hands-on investigations and interactions with the natural world

• Social Studies: examining the relationship between humans and the environment through history and civic action

• Math: analyze population trends, understand human-wildlife interactions, and assess threats to endangered species through Statistics & other branches of math

• ELA: connect with nature on a personal level through nature journaling, environmental literature, and researching and communicating environmental issues

These examples represent minor ways in which a perspective shift can illuminate the interconnectedness of our world - and of our learning experiences. Empowering students to become climate activists is an essential piece of solving the climate crisis puzzle.