How will the EEI Curriculum relate to adopted instructional materials and other environmental curricula and education programs?
The EEI Curriculum will provide teachers with an alternative strategy for using their adopted instructional materials in a way that engages students by using the environment as a context for standards-based instruction. EEI units are being designed to teach standards to mastery through instructional strategies that many students may find more engaging than traditional materials. At the same time, the EEI Curriculum is being designed to take advantage of the instructional materials that are adopted by the State Board of Education as well as the educational resources that are offered by the providers of California’s diverse environmental curricula and education programs. This approach should provide students and teachers with the opportunity to make the most appropriate use of all of the rich instructional resources that are available to them.
