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| Green Education in Classrooms
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Using Environmental Education to Build Character Skills
Complete guide for teachers to learn about applying project based learning by using environmental issues and topics.
Environmental Education at a Glance
Free book that details a variety of resources that can be used in teaching about the environment in different biomes.
Environmental Education Week, April 13-19, 2008!
National Environmental Education Week (EE Week) is the largest organized environmental education event in the United States. It's a full week of educational preparation, learning, and activities in K-12 classrooms, nature centers, zoos, museums, and aquariums. By participating in EE Week, you encourage your students to make a difference in their schools, homes, and communities!
Environmental Science via the Paideia Project
A Paideia Project is a three column unit of study that leads to a student production or performance of real value to an audience outside the classroom.
Environment Report Cards
Come back each week to vote on a new environmental issue. We'll use the votes of kids all around the country to create a Report Card on the current state of the environment and how well we're addressing top issues.
John Muir Exhibit
The academic focus of the John Muir Day Study Guide is History - Social Science.
Please see the following for additional Muir-inspired lesson plans for other academic subjects.
US Partnership for the Decade of Education for Sustainable Development
The resources available here provide K-12 teachers with the tools they need to infuse curricula with principles of educating for sustainable development.
EPA: Teachers Resources
Classroom, home school, or non-classroom instructors for youth grades pre-K-12 or ages 4-18
EPA: High School Students
Grades 9-12 or ages 14-18
EPA:
Grades 6-8 or ages 11-13
EPA: Environmental Kids Club
Grades pre-K-5 or ages 4-10
New guide to K-12 environmental education
No matter what we’re learning in school, there is often, if not always, some connection to the environment.
Green Lessons for New Schools (BSF Update)
Pupils from Burnley are using the building of their new school to learn about the environment - and to encourage action to stop global warming. The 11 and 12-year-olds from Shuttleworth College, on Kiddrow Lane, have set up a sustainability project as part of their science learning.
Project Wet
The mission of Project WET is to reach children, parents, educators, and communities of the world with water education. We invite you to join us in educating children about the most precious resource on the planet – water.
Earth Day, April 22, 2008
1.8 billion of the world's 6.6 billion inhabitants are of school age….
International Earth Day
March 20, 2008 at 1:48 AM Eastern Daylight Time or 05:48 UTC March 20 in Greenwich, England
Calculate carbon footprints
We all contribute to global warming every day. The carbon dioxide you produce by driving your car and leaving the lights on adds up quickly. You may be surprised by how much Co2 you are emitting
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| Professional Development, Green Campuses
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Approaching Walden Seminar - July 13-18, 2008
The Walden Woods Project is currently accepting applications for Approaching Walden, a professional development summer seminar for high school educators and graduate students. This six-day workshop is professionally as well as personally enriching, and provides teachers with the skills needed to lead their students in a study of their home community. This place-based, interdisciplinary workshop uses Henry David Thoreau's ethic and his experience at Walden Woods as a model.
National Parks Seek Teacher Rangers
The Teacher to Ranger to Teacher (TRT) Program links National Park units with teachers from low income school districts. Under this program, selected teachers spend the summer working as park rangers, often living in the park. They perform various duties depending on their interests and the needs of the park, including developing and presenting interpretive programs for the general public, staffing the visitor center desk, developing curriculum-based materials for the park, or taking on special projects.
Building Green Schools Resource List
Comprehensive list of suppliers and info providers on building green schools. Can also be seen as a PDF file.
The Love Canal Tragedy
It is a cruel irony that Love Canal was originally meant to be a dream community. That vision belonged to the man for whom the three-block tract of land on the eastern edge of Niagara Falls, New York, was named--William T. Love.
Cities for Climate Protection
This CCP Campaign assists cities to adopt policies and implement quantifiable measures to reduce local greenhouse gas emissions, improve air quality, and enhance urban livability and sustainability.
Climate Challenge
The Challenge unites 42 organizations and over 581 local groups in 56 states and provinces.
Focus the Nation
Focus the Nation is an educational initiative, but we also promote civic engagement. Each Focus team will invite local, state and federal political leaders and decision-makers...
Face It Webcast - Architecture 2030
The Face It webcast, being held Jan. 30 & 31 - 2008, will build on the info provided during Architecture 2030’s highly successful 2007 webcast, The 2010 Imperative Global Emergency Teach-in seen around the globe. Use the broadcast to get yourself and your students involved.
LEED for Schools
By addressing the uniqueness of school spaces and children’s health issues, LEED for Schools provides a unique, comprehensive tool for schools that wish to build green, with measurable results.
Alliance to Save Energy Green Schools Project
Energy costs are an enormous expense for our nation's schools. To help free up more resources for education while strengthening academic learning, the Alliance's Green Schools Program engages students in creating energy-saving activities in their schools, using hands-on, real-world projects.
DSIRE
is a comprehensive source of information on state, local, utility, and federal incentives that promote renewable energy and energy efficiency.
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| Nuggets
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Earth911 -
Recycle resource for almost any product at school.
EPA - Learn about
recycling with material for lessons and/or activities.
Sierra Student Coalition
The SSC's Student Environmental Leadership Trainings, led by the nation's top student organizers, are week-long sessions where you'll learn to develop effective groups and tackle serious environmental issues.
Encyclopedia of Earth - online
The Encyclopedia is a free, fully searchable collection of articles written by scholars, professionals, educators, and experts who collaborate and review each other's work. The articles are written in non-technical language and will be useful to students, educators, scholars, professionals, and the general public.
Plum Grants - Awarded Weekly!
Did you recently create a sustainable community improvement project, program, or organization? Do you need $500 to further the growth and success of your program? If you answered, "YES!", you are eligible to apply for a Plum Youth Grant. Plum grants are given out weekly by Do Somthing.
Greenworks Grants - Deadline April 30, 2008
Grants of up to $5,000 are available to help fund neighborhood environmental improvement projects that partner Project Learning Tree educators and their students with local businesses or community organizations.
Pay It Forward Mini-Grants - Three funding cycles in 2008!
Applications for the first round of Pay it Forward Mini-Grants are currently being accepted. The Pay It Forward Foundation provides these mini-grants to support one-time-only service-oriented projects identified by youth. In order to be considered, applicants must demonstrate that their projects contain a "pay it forward" focus, based on the concept of one person doing a favor for others, who in turn do favors for others, with the results growing exponentially. Mini-grants of up to $500 will be awarded. Applications are due April 15 and October 15.
Captain Planet Foundation - Deadline March 31, 2008
The Captain Planet Foundation accepts applications four times each year for funding projects that help students better grasp environmental issues. Grants range from $250 to $2,500. Projects must promote understanding of environmental issues, focus on hands-on activities, involve children and young adults ages 6 to 18, promote interaction and cooperation within a group, help young people develop planning and problem-solving skills, include adult supervision, and commit to follow-up communication with the Foundation.
Inner City Outings
Every year, community groups across the United States and Canada express a need for more and more outings.
Wilderness Awareness School
More than a survival school, our Adult Wilderness Courses provide thorough training in all of our core curriculum areas.
Outdoor Outreach
Outdoor Outreach is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to provide an opportunity for at-risk and underprivileged youth to gain confidence and self-esteem through participation in outdoor activities.
Fall 2008 Study Abroad Program
From the International Sustainable Development Studies Institute, the People, Ecology, and Development study abroad program will focus on the links between culture, ecology, and sustainability through the experiential study of specific communities and ecosystems.
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Benefits of Green Education
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