Environmental Principles and Concepts
California's Environmental Principles and Concepts (EP&Cs) highlight the deep relationship between humans and the natural world.
Students and teachers need not memorize the five environmental principles and fifteen supporting concepts. Rather, they are “big ideas” intended to inform standards-based instruction and fuel student inquiry. Teachers can support environmental literacy by helping students to understand and apply the EP&Cs across academic disciplines and in the real world.
— California Education and the Environment InitiativeStudents and teachers need not memorize the five environmental principles and fifteen supporting concepts. Rather, they are “big ideas” intended to inform standards-based instruction and fuel student inquiry. Teachers can support environmental literacy by helping students to understand and apply the EP&Cs across academic disciplines and in the real world.