ABSTRACT
Environmental education challenges, as well as relates to the other cross-curricular themes. Despite the lack of guidance about cross-curricular themes, and environmental education in particular, in the reports on the National Curriculum, schools would do well to recognise the importance of issues to their pupils. Suggestions by pupils about traffic control around their school relate to national issues of road building, pollution and the use of finite resources such as land and fuel. Although the issue is complex, the 'greenhouse effect' appears to constrain the extension of an economic approach to social organisation. Environmental education has close links with the other several cross-curricular themes, sharing many of the same features of investigative study skills and bodies of knowledge. Human activity which alters agricultural potential and removes fertile land for other purposes, such as mineral extraction or transport, may be linked in its effect with a rising world population.
