Workshop for Educators: Maryland Environmental Literacy Framework

In Maryland, every student must graduate environmentally literate so they have the skills and knowledge to preserve and protect the environment. To guide this requirement, Maryland adopted Environmental Literacy Standards in 2011 that were updated in 2020. In March 2023, Maryland released the Environmental Literacy Framework to provide guidance to school districts for implementing the State Environmental Literacy Standards. The Framework provides resources, essential questions, and connections to standards in science, social studies, ELA/literacy, math, and health education to guide the creation of interdisciplinary environmental literacy programming for prekindergarten to grade 12.

Join NOAA’s Environmental Science Training Center for this workshop, developed in collaboration with Arlington Echo Outdoor Education Center, the Maryland Association for Environmental and Outdoor Education, the Maryland Environmental Literacy Advisory Network, and the Maryland State Department of Education, to examine the Standards, Framework, and programmatic examples to learn how the Framework can be used to strengthen interdisciplinary environmental literacy programming and apply it to your own programming. 

This free workshop is intended for environmental educators serving K-12 students in Maryland. We encourage you to have two people from your organization attend so they can work together to apply the Framework to a current or planned program.