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Table 1 Summary of water-related education standards

From: Towards water literacy: an interdisciplinary analysis of standards for teaching and learning about humans and Water

Organization

Identifier used in the results

# Water-specific standards

# Water-related standards

1

American Association for the Advancement of Science (1993)

AAAS

15

24

2

American Farm Bureau Foundation for Agriculture (2012)

Pillars

6

9

3

Earth Science Literacy Initiative (2010)

ESLI

11

14

4

Geography Education National Implementation Project (n.d.)

NatGeo

64

19

5

International Society for Technology in Education (2016)

ISTE

0

6

6

Joint Committee on National Health Education Standards (2007)

CDC

0

38

7

National Agriculture in the Classroom Organization & National Institute of Food and Agriculture (Spielmaker & Leising, 2013)

NALO

11

13

8

Next Generation Science Standards (2013)

NGSS

13

7

9

North American Association for Environmental Education (2019)

NAAEE

2

58

10

U.S. Department of Energy (2017)

ELP

2

7

11

U.S. Global Change Research Program (2009)

Climate Literacy

5

3

12

United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (Rieckmann et al., 2017)

UNESCO

13

1

 

Total

 

142

199