Wisconsin Green & Healthy Schools Program - Connection to Wisconsin Model Academic Standards

The Wisconsin Green & Healthy Schools Program connects to many of the Wisconsin Model Academic Standards in Environmental Education, Science, and Social Studies. See the Green & Healthy Schools Requirements Chart [PDF, 40KB] for a break down of standard connections related to each stage of the program. A complete list of the relevant standards is provided below.

Environmental Education Standards

Question and Analysis

A.4.1 Make observations, ask questions and plan environmental investigations
A.4.4 Communicate their understanding to others in simple terms
A.12.5 Communicate the results of their investigations to groups concerned with the issue

Knowledge of Environmental Processes and System

B.4.2 Illustrate how they use energy in their daily lives
B.4.3 List sources of energy, distinguishing between renewable and nonrenewable sources
B.4.7 Draw a simple hydrologic cycle
B.4.10 Describe how they use natural resources in their daily lives
B.8.15 Analyze how people impact their environment through resource use
B.8.18 Identify major air, water, or land, pollutants and their sources
B.8.20 Identify types of waste and methods for waste reduction
B.12.18 Analyze cause and effect relationships of pollutants and other environmental changes on human health
B.12.21 Research the roles of various careers related to natural resource management and other environmental fields

Environmental Issue and Investigation Skills

C.4.1 Identify environmental problems and issues
C.4.3 Identify people and groups of people that are involved in the issue

Decision and Action Skills

D.4.2 Identify and give examples of short-term and long-term solutions to a problem
D.4.3 Identify two or more ways to take positive environmental action
D.4.6 Develop a plan, either individually or in a group, to preserve the local environment
D.8.1 Identify options for addressing an environmental issue and evaluate the consequences of each option
D.8.3 List reasons why an individual or group chooses to participate or not participate in an environmental activity in the home, school, or community
D.8.5 Explain how personal actions can impact an environmental issue
D.8.6 Develop a plan for improving or maintaining some part of the local environment and identify their role in accomplishing this plan
D.12.2 Evaluate reasons for participation or nonparticipation in an environmental activity in the home, school, or community
D.12.5 Develop a plan to maintain or improve some part of the local or regional environment, and enlist support for the implementation of that plan

Personal and Civic Responsibility

E.12.3 Take action in regard to environmental issues in the home, school, or communities

Science Standards

Science Connections

A.4.3 When investigating a science-related problem, decide what data can be collected to determine the most useful information
A.4.5 When studying a science-related problem, decide what changes over time are occurring or have occurred
A.12.5 Show how the ideas and themes of science can be used to make real-life decisions about careers, work places, life-styles, and use of resources

Nature of Science

B.4.1 Use encyclopedias, source book, texts, computers, teachers, parents, other adults, journals, popular press, and various other sources, to help answer science related questions and plan investigations

Science Inquiry

C.4.2 Use the science content being learned to ask questions, plan investigations, make observations, make predictions, and offer explanations
C.4.3 Select multiple sources of information to help answer questions selected for classroom investigations
C.4.5 Use data they have collected to develop explanations and answer questions generated by investigations
C.4.6 Communicate the results of their investigations in ways their audiences will understand by using charts, graphs, drawings, written descriptions, and various other means.
C.8.2 Identify data and locate sources of information including their own records to answer the questions being investigated
C.8.3 Design and safely conduct investigations that provide reliable quantitative data, as appropriate, to answer their questions
C.8.10 Discuss the importance of their results and implications of their work with peers, teachers, and other adults
C.12.6 Present the results of investigations to groups concerned with the issues, explaining the meaning and implication of the results, and answering questions in terms the audience can understand

Science Application

G.12.3 Analyze the costs, benefits, or problems resulting from a scientific or technological innovation, including implications for the individual and the community

Science in Social and Personal Perspectives

H.8.2 Present a scientific solution to a problem involving the earth and space, life and environmental, or physical sciences and participate in a consensus-building discussion to arrive at a group decision
H.12.3 Show how policy decisions in science depend on many factors including social values, ethics, beliefs, time-frames, and considerations of science and technology
H.12.4 Advocate a solution or combination of solutions to a problem in science or technology
H.12.5 Investigate how current plans or proposals concerning resource management, scientific knowledge, or technological development will have an impact on the environment, ecology, and quality of life in the community or region
H.12.7 When making decisions, construct a plan that includes the use of current scientific knowledge and scientific reasoning

Social Studies Standards

Economics

D.4.7 Describe how personal economic decisions such as deciding what to buy, what to recycle, or how much to contribute to people in need can affect the lives of the people in Wisconsin, the US, and the world

History

B.4.8 Compare past and present technologies related to energy, transportation, and communications and describe the effects of technological change, either beneficial or harmful, on people and the environment

Health Standards

Health Promotion and Disease Prevention

A.4.2 Describe how family, school, and community environments influence personal health
A.4.3 Identify ways to be healthy during childhood
A.4.4 Explain how childhood diseases and injuries can be prevented or treated
A.8.2 Analyze how environments and personal health are interrelated
A.8.3 Describe ways to enhance health and reduce risks during adolescence
A.8.7 Explain the relationship between positive health behaviors and prevention of injury, illness, disease, and premature death
A.12.2 Analyze how the environment influences the health of the community
A.12.3 Describe how to enhance health and reduce risks throughout life
A.12.7 Analyze how behavior can impact health maintenance and disease and injury prevention

Healthy Behaviors

B.4.1 Identify responsible health behaviors
B.4.4 Demonstrate strategies to improve or maintain personal health
B.8.1 Explain the importance of assuming responsibility for personal health behaviors
B.8.4 Demonstrate strategies to improve and maintain personal and family health
B.12.1 Analyze the role of individual responsibility for enhancing health
B.12.4 Demonstrate strategies to improve and maintain personal, family, and community health

Information and Services

D.8.2 Demonstrate the ability to access resources from home, school, and community
E.4.4 Explain how information from school and family influences health

Advocacy

G.4.2 Convey valid information and express opinions about health issues
G.8.2 Convey valid information and express opinions about health issues
G.8.3 Demonstrate the ability to work cooperatively when advocating for healthy individuals, families, schools, and communities
G.8.4 Demonstrate the ability to influence and support others in making positive health choices
G.8.5 Identify barriers to effective promotion of information, ideas, feelings, and opinions about health issues and explore options to overcome them
G.12.2 Convey valid information and express opinions about health issues
G.12.3 Demonstrate the ability to work cooperatively when advocating for health individuals, families, schools, and communities
G.12.4 Demonstrate the ability to influence and support others in making positive health choices
G.12.5 Utilize strategies to overcome barriers when promoting information, ideas, feelings, and opinions about health issue