Environmental education aims to increase awareness and knowledge about the environment, resulting in positive changes in attitude and increased personal involvement in environmental issues (Bogner, 1998; UNESCO and UNEP, 1977). Integrating environmental education into an elementary school curriculum can be an effective way of meeting these goals because children are excited about learning and are still developing attitudes about the world around them (Iozzi, 1989; Jaus, 1982). Furthermore, elementary school children are capable of forming opinions about the environment and understanding environmental stewardship (Bryant and Hungerford, 1977; Barratt Hacking et al., 2007). Involving youth in environmental education programs has the potential to create a positive feedback loop in which learners are more likely to involve themselves in positive environmental action in the future (Schusler et al., 2009). Successful environmental education programs for youth have found that combined classroom and field-based instruction is more

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