Environmental and Natural Resource Stewardship

This pathway map will help you gain the expertise needed to:

1. Explain and demonstrate the process of scientific inquiry.
2. Describe and translate levels of organization and interactions within ecosystems.
3. Assess and test scientific knowledge and logic to understand and examine environmental problems.
4. Identify and measure human impacts on ecosystems and human policy on managing natural resources.
5. Describe and critique appropriate techniques for distinguishing fact from opinion.
6. Describe the methods that policy makers use to evaluate improvements or modifications to environmental quality.
7. Develop students' skills using analytical tools such as supply and demand graphs to critically analyze environmental quality and natural resource problems.
8. Apply ethical theories and moral principles to global environmental moral issues.
9. Compare and contrast methods of inquiry used to determine environmental and natural resources issues.
10. Compare and contrast the use of appropriate models applied to address natural resource issues.
11. Outline the operation of a local policy making body.
12. Describe appropriate techniques for evaluating efficient economic use of renewable, nonrenewable, and recyclable resources.
13. Evaluate how policy is made in an agency of government or a nonprofit organization.