Environmental Education Program Goals

All Dallas County Conservation Department's Environmental Educational Programs and Activities sponsored by the department support the following goals:

• Awareness - help the learner to acquire a sensitivity to, and appreciation for, the total environment - especially the natural, cultural, and recreational resources of Dallas County.
  
• Knowledge -help the learner to gain a variety of experiences in, and acquire a basic understanding of the exological principles and processes operating int he environment.
• Connections - Applications - help the learner to recognize the link between individual/group actions - decisions and environmental problems so as to enhance their understanding of the cause and effect relationships in ecological issues.
• Skills - help learners to acquire the skills for participating in outdoor recreational activities, and for the identification, research, analysis, evaluation and solving of environmental problems.
• Participation - provide the learner with opportunities to be involved in outdoor recreational activities and actively involved in working towards the resolution of environmental problems.