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CLUSTER: Creative Land Use Series for Teachers and Educator Resources
Land use environmental education is aimed at developing an understanding of the relationship between land use decisions and the environment, along with the realization that the way in which land is used directly affects the environment. The ultimate goal of CLUSTER, a Creative Land Use Series for Teachers and Educator Resources, is to make resources, lessons and materials readily available to teach land use environmental education. The project aims to assist in the education of the next generation in order to produce thoughtful, engaged citizens that will see the connection between land use and the environment and will be compelled to act. Through this process we will generate a responsible citizenry that can make educated and sustainable, local and global decisions about future land use. CLUSTER Project The CLUSTER project is being designed to help educators integrate land use environmental education as a supplementary program that could be used in the social studies curriculum. This project is also meant to give educators, both traditional and non-traditional, a primary resource to use, build, and create a more comprehensive land use curriculum. This resource will contain the scope and sequence along with a lesson framework. The lesson framework will contain the, �lessons in a nutshell�, or an overview of a lesson, the process, the objectives, and the locations of available resources and materials. This resource can be an invaluable asset, especially to social studies teachers, because it shows how to work land use education into a social studies activity that will fulfill the mandatory compliance provided by the Wisconsin Model Academic Standards. http://www.uwsp.edu/landcenter/specialprojects/cluster/cluster.html
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