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THE JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION (Volume 4, Number 4, Summer 1973) A 5-point scale for measuri'ng effectiveness GUIDELINES FOR EVALUATING ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION CURRICULA Ronald E. Gargasz study of relationships of man to the ecosystem as ONE MIGHT ASSUME that life on earth revolves around three conceptual axes: well as man's dependence on, contributions to, and alterations of the ecosystem; and that environ­ 1. Biotic and abiotic (living and non-living) things mental education is the key to making this a liv­ are dependent upon each other for the main­ able world. The Council believes environmental tenance of a balance in nature. For example education can be purveyed through a number of most plants (living) require soil (non-living) media, but analyses of these media indicates that in which to anchor their foundational root educational instruction at a myriad of academic system. levels can do more to communicate knowledge of this environmental information than any other source. The general public has been very receptive 2. There is an interrelation among and between all living things. to this and has responded by suddenly attempting to meet the demands for environmental education 3. The environment sets the upper limits in through the development of