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FIVE COMPONENTS OF
ENVIRONMENTAL LITERACY
Awareness:
Awareness is holding
a general impression,
or consciousness,
about something. An
individual may be
aware that climate
change is an issue or
that human life
depends on a healthy
environment without
knowing much more.
Environmental
awareness can arise
from many activities ­
education being just
one.

Knowledge
Developing knowledge
requires more than
acquisition of new
information or data. It
requires an orderly
comprehension,
application, analysis,
synthesis, and evaluation
of that material as well as
the intellectual framework
within which new
information can be placed
and manipulated.
Developing knowledge
often requires a pedagogy
(a formal methodology for
constructing knowledge
with the student)
something that is absent in
simple information transfer.