Linking state academic standards and EE using Excellence in Environmental Education: Guidelines for Learning (K-12) as the framework to create a crosswalk.
Building off of NAAEE’s Early Childhood Environmental Education Programs: Guidelines for Excellence, the Early Childhood Environmental Education Rating Scale is an evaluation tool designed to assist programs in improving their environmental education curriculum.
Join Alex Kudryavtsev, the facilitator of this month’s discussion, for a deep dive into everything related to urban EE. Alex is a Cornell University course instructor and researcher and he will help facilitate a webinar, discussions, and research and resource updates for anyone interested in environmental education and urban communities. Visit the Discussion Board and Blog, and let us know if you’d like to write a guest blog on some aspect of EE. We look forward to hearing your ideas, teaching tips, and experiences. Please register for the NAAEE conference in San Diego, which will include an “EE in Urban Settings” strand (registration opens in June).
Celebrating Women Making a Visible Difference in Communities, "Who's Your Environmental Justice Shero?", by Dr. Marva King of the EPA's Office of Environmental Justice.
This online course was developed by Association of Zoos and Aquariums (AZA) as part of the EECapacity Project to aid zoo and aquarium educators in developing new informal EE programs or improving existing programs.
Addresses the social and cultural aspects of community-based environmental protection. The guide offers a process and set of tools for defining and understanding the human dimension of an environmental issue.
This Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Web site "Your Environment, Your Choice" was designed especially for high school students to help make environmentally sound choices about the products they use, the waste they create, and the environment in which they live.
"GoGreen!" is a text-only, monthly email newsletter from EPA summarizing recent news and info you can use to make a difference in your home, community, and workplace.
This is a annotated list of printed materials that will supplement lesson plans and provide students with suggestions for independent reading on wetlands.
Superfund for Students and Teachers (K-3). Students will learn that soil is composed of many things, including living organisms, and will understand that time is important in the formation of soil. Also includes recipe for edible dirt cakes.
