Literacy Project

An important idea I have come across is that geography is a huge part of environmental literacy. Initially when you think of environmental literacy you imagine the water cycle, pollution, different biomes, water, air , land. However their is another important aspect, the human impact. We live in a world that has been dramatically altered by human activity on every single continent. Human activity causes influxes in populations of different organisms, they can cause pollution that is detrimental to the biological life in the surrounding environmental and to people themselves. Human Impact is one of the major aspects of environmental literacy and one that I hope to really highlight

Another important idea is in the interconnected aspect of the world. I am planning on including 3 pages, land, air and water to my project. All of these parts of the world directly and significantly influence one another. They are so influential on each other that the concept of land/earth, water and air are only there to make understanding the world easier. Water is part of land and the air.

A part of environmental literacy that I have found challenging is the vocabulary. There are a vast amount of scientific words that need to be understood when discussing the environment  Which in my opinion makes environmental literacy all the harder to learn. being able to distinguish different soil types, the layers of the atmosphere, the water cycle, the periodic table of elements and the animal kingdom is no easy task let alone understand how they all affect one another.