Freecycle
We are community groups dedicated to finding good homes for extra stuff piling up in our homes. Post items to give away, or make a request for wanted items, but the bottom line is that it has to be FREE!
Mother Lode River Center
The Mother Lode River Center is located on the South Fork of the American River, in the historically and ecologically rich foothills of the Sierra Nevada. Our 12-acre, riverside camp is an ideal setting for our program's dynamic approach to education.
Rethinking School Lunch
A growing movement has emerged to transform school lunch into a vibrant expression of environmental education. The Center for Ecoliteracy has launched the Rethinking School Lunch initiative as part of the national effort to restore the connection of farms to communities, meals to culture, and health to
environment.
From Sidewalks to Treetops Video and Booklet
Girl Scout's "From Sidewalks to Treetops—The Amateur's Guide to Exploring Nature in Your Neighborhood" video and booklet let you guide a group in exploring wildlife in any neighborhood – even in a city. Learn how to promote problem solving, develop scientific inquiry skills, and use questions to guide participants through their own discoveries. For youth group leaders, camp directors, teachers. Closed-captioned. English and Spanish versions. VHS tape approximately 15 minutes. 20-page companion guide. Item# 26418.
e-ReferenceDesk - Consumer's Guide to Education
Find details on programs and degrees of online and campus colleges and universities, career, specialty, technical, trade and vocational schools, and junior colleges in the US and Canada.
Nova Series: Descent into the Ice
The latest of NOVA's High Adventure series "Descent Into the Ice" explores the highest point in western Europe - Mont Blanc. The program is a Journey to the Center of the Earth-style voyage into the eerie inner world of glacial cracks, crevasses, ice shafts, pits, water wells, and tunnels, as glacionauts search for evidence of hidden lakes that form through the intricate action of melting ice. Accompanying teaching materials, classroom activities, and an interactive site for students.
Colorado Foundation for Water Education
A non-profit, non-advocacy organization providing water resource information and education. Many online resources, products and links for teachers, water professionals, and all those interested in water resources in the Western states.
Environmental Charter High School
ECHS students are engaged in a rigorous college-prep curriculum that extends learning beyond the classroom walls and into the local community. Our unique academic program focuses on “environmental service learning—a teaching strategy that links classroom instruction with meaningful, hands on service to the community.”
Owl's Nest Plantation, Organic Farm, Healthy Foods, Living Natural!
Where Old Fashioned Farming & Today's Organic Gardening Come Together! Featuring information on organic farming, healthy foods, scientific studies, medical options, healing alternatives, living natural, & unique resource links!
Respect the Beach
Respect the Beach (RTB) is an exciting coastal educational program that includes field trips, classroom lectures, handouts, video, and hands-on projects designed to coastal watershed processes, shoreline ecology and coastal areas stewardship to K-12 students and community groups.
Sustainable Footprint
The sustainable footprint project is a Netherlands-based project aimed at making students aware of the consequences of their lifestyle including teachers progams for "problem oriented learning". Plus a series ot thematic lessons and guidelines for internationalising project and relevant links. Extra: A footprint quiz for the younger students (12-15) and a "design for the future" assignment.
Award-winning Costa Rican Family and Group Adventures
Experience natural wonders, explore environmental challenges, engage in sustainable ecological solutions. Beachfront organic farm, indigenous reserve tour, rainforest experience, rafting, and hiking. ONE PERSON FREE WITH A GROUP OF TEN!
Call Jay at 800 551-7887 or email jay@costaricanadventures.com
Costa Rican Eco-Adventures!
Award-winning group and classroom journeys exploring the natural wonders, environmental challenges, and sustainable ecological
solutions. Beachfront organic farm, indigenous reserve tour, rainforest
experience, beach, rafting, and hiking. TRIP ORGANIZERS TRAVEL FREE.
Call Jay at 800 551-7887 or email jay@costaricanadventures.com
New Zealand Brown Teal
Information source about the critically endangered New Zealand Brown Teal. The site aims to provide quality up to date information about the species and the work going into recovering it from possible exinction.
Braitmayer Foundation K-12 Education Grants
The Braitmayer Foundation offers grants of up to $10,000 to fund a broad range of K-12 education programs. The foundation is particularly interest in curricular reform initiatives and professional development opportunities for teachers, particularly those encouraging people of high ability and diverse background to enter and remain in K-12 teaching. All K-12 schools in the United States, as well as independent 501(c)3 organizations with an education focus, are eligible.
Dow Social Responsibility Fund
The Dow Chemical Company has made available $20 million in grant funds to support proposed initiatives concentrating on math and science, teacher training and parental involvement for K-12 school districts. Grant proposals should focus on giving K-12 students science and engineering experiences, giving teachers the training to provide these experiences and fostering parental and community involvement. School districts and school boards nationwide, as well as programs that promote systemic education reform in math and science, are eligible to apply. Special attention is given to school districts around communities where Dow is located.
Federal Grant Guide
"How to Find and Win Federal Grants" by Susan H. Gray. Completely updated, this guide is for nonprofit organizations to find, apply for, and win federal grants. Also provides suggestions for developing projects and proposals worthy of federal funding, where to quickly access the information on more than 1,000 federal grants, loans, and other assistance programs, and covers the legal and financial responsibilities of grant recipients. 2003-2004, 200 pp. $195
From Seed to Seed Online K-8 Educator's Course
A Plant Science professional development course from the National Gardening Association for K-8 educators to incorporate botany and gardening (indoors or out) into their science curriculum. In addition to the core botanical information, we provide activities and experiments that address K-8 national standards in various disciplines. National Science Education Standards are emphasized throughout the course, and connections are made to geography, health, history, language arts, and mathematics.
The Ozone Hole
The Ozone Hole Organization is a 501-C non-profit group dedicated to preventing the destruction of the Ozone Layer. The Ozone Hole Organization is interfacing information from The British Antarctic Survey, Environment Canada, NASA, The United Nations and The Environmental Protection Agency to have the most up to date information and solutions available to the global public.
All About Birds
By the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, site includes a video gallery, a guide to birdwatching, and a dynamic online bird guide complete with sound files of bird songs. Requires RealPlayer (free) to view the video and audio features.
CIESE Online Classroom Projects
Center for Improved Engineering and Science Education (CIESE) sponsors and designs interdisciplinary projects that teachers can use to enhance their curriculum through use of the Internet. Focus is on projects that utilize realtime data from the Internet, and collaborative projects that reach peers and experts around the world via the Internet. Some of these collaborative projects include "Down the Drain: How much water do you use?"; "The Global Water Sampling Project: An investigation of water quality" for grades 9-12; and "The Square of Life: Studies of Local and Global Environments" for grades 1-5. Each project has a brief description and links to the National Science Standards and NCTM math standards it supports.
Crittercam
Find out what wild animals do when we’re not around with National Geographic’s Crittercam. Crittercams are worn by wildlife and give a rare view of the private lives of animals. This animal’s-eye view can help solve scientific mysteries and protect the animals that wear them.
Curriculum Guide: Exploring Climate Change Impacts
Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) set of teaching materials geared towards students and teachers in grades 9-12. Individual exercises are adaptable to different grade levels and engage students in an exploration of the impacts of global climate change on ecosystems and natural resources. In pdf format.
Sequenced Lesson Plans
The Georgia Department of Education (GLC) has compiled a year's worth of lesson plans for a variety of subjects for grades K-5. New materials are being added for grades 6-12 courtesy of the GLC staff.
Kennedy-Western University
Offers Bachelors, Masters, and Doctorate Environmental Science programs.
Online Colleges
Review an online college at onlinecollegereview.com.
Shigo on Tree Systems
Articles written by DR. ALEX L. SHIGO, one of the foremost authorities worldwide on tree systems today online.
Stark County Park District
The Stark County parks offer on-site and off-site educational programming on natural and cultural resources. These programs are available at our site, your site and even through distance learning!
Technical Tree Biology Dictionary
Site provides "A to Z" dictionary on tree biology terms.
Trees, Associates and Shigo - CD-ROM
A collection of over 5000 items from research and travels worldwide over a 40-year period.
Atmosphere, Climate and Environment (ACE) for Kids Grades K-6
Site for kids, ages 5 to 11, provides a series of information sheets to help learn about our planet's air and mankind's impact upon it. There are also a series of games and puzzles.
Missoula Urban Demonstration Project
The Missoula Urban Demonstration (MUD) project is a non-profit resource and education center for sustainable living located in Missoula, Montana.
Nuclear waste italy
Il sito unico nazionale per la raccolta delle scorie nucleari, la Sogin, i Personaggi, le Norme, il business dei rifiuti radioattivi,
le situazioni ambigue di una vicenda attorno cui girano Miliardi di Euro.
Teaching Point
TEACHINGpoint was established to develop a product line of comprehensive teacher preparation materials written by expert teachers who understand the needs of new teachers and teachers facing out-of-field assignments. Grounded in research-based best practices, the expanding line of TEACHINGpoint materials is already being used in more than 1000 schools in the United States.
2003 GEO Yearbook
The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) flagship publication is the Global Environment Outlook (GEO) series. The latest in the series is the
annually produced GEO Yearbook in which UNEP has encapsulated significant recent and topical environmental issues and developments. This readable and
reliable volume is designed to inform, guide and stimulate action for the health of our environment.
AdoptALibrary.org
AdoptALibrary.org keeps books and magazines out of landfills and promotes world literacy and donations to libraries and schools, Native American reservations and prisons around the world.
Blank Family Foundation Enviro Grant - Atlanta, Georgia
The Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation provides grants to governmental, civic and nonprofit partners for initiatives that enhance the quality-of-life in Atlanta, Georgia's urban core supporting the preservation of green space and parks.
Brimstone Award for Applied Storytelling
Applications will be received in two rounds: preliminary proposals will be due by e-mail no later than Monday, September 13, 2004, and full
proposals invited for the final round will be due by Monday, October 25.
The National Storytelling Network is pleased to announce the first annual Brimstone Award for Applied Storytelling, a grant of $5000 for a project that will be completed in calendar year 2005. The award will be announced by December 1. Taking its name from "brimstone" —the elusive element medieval alchemists believed would transform base metals into gold —this award focuses on the transformational properties of storytelling, and aims to increase understanding of the ways storytelling can promote change in individuals and communities. Environmental Educators are invited to submit a storytelling project that is service-oriented, based in a community or organization, and to some extent replicable in other places and situations. The hope is that projects receiving this award will have impact beyond their own communities, organizations, or clients, inspiring excellence in applied storytelling work and communicating to new audiences the humanitarian possibilities of storytelling.
Course: Environmental affairs - Global issue, local action - Online
The community-based online course aims to lead students to resources on threats to the environment and to information on approaches to understand and manage these threats. Various case studies and online exercises will be presented; interactive sessions with the instructor will provide important feedback. Courses are typically scheduled for 2 weeks plus 3 days or 4 weeks plus 3 days.
Fundacion para el Desarrollo Sustentable
La Fundacion para el Desarrollo Sustentable es un Organizacion No Gubernamental que tiene por finalidad difundir el Desarrollo Sustentable para lo cual realiza cursos virtuales sobre esta temática, como ser Gestión de Residuos, Impacto Ambiental, Normas Ambientales, etc.
Students Partnership Worldwide
SPW is a youth-led development organization working in some of the world's poorest communities in rural Zambia, Zimbabwe, Uganda, South Africa, Tanzania, Nepal and India. Our mission is to empower local youth to find ecologically and socially sustainable responses to the problems their communities face. Volunteers are trained to use interactive and non-formal teaching methods and to involve the school and whole community in awareness-raising activities.
Underwater pictures from Indian ocean.
Underwater photography of tropical reef fishes from Indian ocean.
Conserve School - Wisconsin
Audubon International Press Release - 6/28/04
Conserve School recently became the first school in the world to become designated as an Audubon International Signature Sanctuary. Signature certification is awarded only to new developments that are designed, constructed and maintained according to Audubon International’s precise planning standards and environmental disciplines. Conserve School, located in northeastern Wisconsin near the town of Land O’ Lakes, is a private, non-sectarian college preparatory boarding school for grades 9-12. Where typical schools are built as a way to live apart from the natural environment, Conserve School was designed to keep the natural environment as a prominent feature in the lives of the students where they live and attend classes as a reminder of the importance of stewardship. See Website for program information.
Bronx Science LEAP Ecology Club
Find out more about the student League for Environmental and Animal Protection. Learn how we saved Earth Day at our high school, and won the NYCityWide Sanitation Department's Recycling Award.
Hippoworks
Environmental and animal-cause related cartoons and games with the aim to educate as well
as entertain.
A Child's Place
Demos Group and Green Alliance paper on children and their environments through a series of interviews in February and March 2004, with children in order to better understand their attitudes towards their environment and how it
affects them. Some findings include the observation that access to high quality natural environments for urban children is not nearly as open as it is to those in rural settings. The report recommends that new ways be found to facilitate EE through out-of-school learning and children's needs should be considered on the design of public space.
Greenworks! Grants
Proposal Deadline: September 30, 2005
Grant opportunity from GreenWorks! for Project Learning Tree (PLT) trained educators to implement community action and service-learning projects from $50 to $1000.
GreenWorks! projects should address an environmental issue and involve students from pre-school to high school in hands-on community action. Visit the website for guideline details.
QUESTING: A Guide to Creating Community Treasure Hunts
By Delia Clark and Steven Glazer. Published by the University Press of New England. In QUESTING, two experts in community education explain how place-based treasure hunts (or quests) can foster education, stewardship, adventure
and fun. QUESTING draws on the success of a program in New England in which individuals, student groups and organizations create clues and
maps highlighting the special places and stories in their community. The book presents a rationale for place-based education, and outlines quest program goals and objectives that can easily be implemented in any
community. ISBN # 1-58465-334-5
Hardcover, 254 pp.
