Environmental Literacy Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the environment and the circumstances • and conditions affecting it, particularly as relates to air, climate, land, food, energy, water and ecosystems Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of society’s impact on the natural • (e.g., population growth, population development, resource consumption rate, etc.) Investigate and analyze environmental issues, and make accurate conclusions about • effective solutions Take individual and collective action towards addressing environmental challenges • (e.g., participating in global actions, designing solutions that inspire action on environmental issues) LEARNING AND INNOVATION SKILLS Learning and innovation skills increasingly are recognized as those that separate students who are prepared for a more and more complex life and work environments in the 21st century, and those who are not. focus on creativity, critical thinking, communication and collaboration is essential to prepare students for the future. CREATIVITY AND INNOVATION Creatively Use a wide of idea creation techniques (such as brainstorming) • Create new and worthwhile ideas (both incremental and radical concepts) • Elaborate, refine, analyze and evaluate their own ideas in order to improve and • maximize creative efforts Work Creatively with Others Develop, implement and communicate new ideas to others effectively • Be open and responsive to new and diverse perspectives; incorporate group input and • feedback into the work Demonstrate originality and inventiveness in work and understand the real limits to • adopting new ideas View failure as an opportunity to understand that creativity and innovation is a • long-term, cyclical process of small successes and frequent mistakes Implement Innovations Act on creative to make a tangible and useful contribution to the field in which the • innovation will occur CRITICAL THINKING AND PROBLEM SOLVING Reason Effectively Use various types of reasoning (inductive, deductive, etc.) as appropriate to the • situation
Environmental Literacy • Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the environment and the circumstances and conditions affecting it, particularly as relates to air, climate, land, food, energy, water and ecosystems • Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of society’s impact on the natural (e.g., population growth, population development, resource consumption rate, etc.) • Investigate and analyze environmental issues, and make accurate conclusions about effective solutions • Take individual and collective action towards addressing environmental challenges (e.g., participating in global actions, designing solutions that inspire action on environmental issues) LEARNING AND INNOVATION SKILLS Learning and innovation skills increasingly are recognized as those that separate students who are prepared for a more and more complex life and work environments in the 21st century, and those who are not. focus on creativity, critical thinking, communication and collaboration is essential to prepare students for the future. CREATIVITY AND INNOVATION Creatively • Use a wide of idea creation techniques (such as brainstorming) • Create new and worthwhile ideas (both incremental and radical concepts) • Elaborate, refine, analyze and evaluate their own ideas in order to improve and maximize creative efforts Work Creatively with Others • Develop, implement and communicate new ideas to others effectively • Be open and responsive to new and diverse perspectives; incorporate group input and feedback into the work • Demonstrate originality and inventiveness in work and understand the real limits to adopting new ideas • View failure as an opportunity to understand that creativity and innovation is a long-term, cyclical process of small successes and frequent mistakes Implement Innovations • Act on creative to make a tangible and useful contribution to the field in which the innovation will occur CRITICAL THINKING AND PROBLEM SOLVING Reason Effectively • Use various types of reasoning (inductive, deductive, etc.) as appropriate to the situation
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