The Minnesota Report Cards on Environmental Literacy provide guidance for future ELP development in the state. Adults have been surveyed to help assess their environmental literacy—knowledge about, attitudes toward, and behaviors related to the environment.

The results of these statewide surveys have been summarized in report cards, where responses are broken down demographically and compared to related survey questions in studies performed in Minnesota, by other states, and nationally.

The report cards offer a snapshot of the environmental literacy of Minnesota adults at a particular point in time. Using these findings, educators can review, adapt, and develop efforts that can better serve their audiences.

Additionally, Minnesota's Environmental Literacy Scope and Sequence is designed to help create opportunities for mainstreaming environmental education in a way that has not been possible before.

It provides a systems approach to environmental education that can focus the efforts of teachers and deliverers of EE to unify their many independent efforts to achieve the goal of environmental literacy. Because the Scope and Sequence is based on both state and national standards, it enables environmental education deliverers to build, adapt or integrate curriculum and assessments that are most appropriate for their particular grade level or audience. The document includes:

• environmental literacy benchmarks,
• key systems concepts and support concepts, 
• applications of the Environmental Literacy Scope and Sequence to:
  • state and national standards
  • the relationships between natural and social systems
  • connections between literacy benchmarks and Minnesota Graduation Standards
  • examples of how to apply the Scope and Sequence in classroom learning, including a sample concept map
  • sample lesson plans for becoming familiar with the Minnesota's Environmental Literacy Scope and Sequence