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Links on this page include organizations and projects primarily concerned
with the profession of environmental education and/or with EE on a
wide range of topics.
EE organizations and projects are sorted by
topic or organization type on the page links at left.
(Organizations that cover more than one topic are cross-referenced on two
or more of these pages.)
US EPA Environmental Education
North American Association for Environmental Education Popular!
Project Learning Tree Popular!
Project Wet Popular!
Project Wild Popular!
Millennium Conference on Environmental Education and Communication
American Nature Study Society
Arizona's Roadside Environments
Association for Environmental and Outdoor Education (AEOE)
Building Environmental Education Solutions Inc.
Center for Great Lakes Environmental Education Popular!
Citizens League for Environmental Action & Recovery
Clube de Floresta/Forest Club
Conservation Leadership Schools
E2: Environment & Education
Earth Day Grocery Project
Earth Education Partnership Program (EEPP)
Earth Force Popular!
Environmental News Network
Exploring The Environment
Global Response
Globe
Green Briar Nature Center,Sandwich, MA.
Green Gates - A New Movement to Save the Environment!
Green Networld
Green Schools Manual
Institute for Earth Education Popular!
Kids For Saving Earth
Kids! Renew America
NEEAP - National EE Advancement Project Popular!
National Environmental Education and Training Foundation (NEETF)
National Project for Excellence in Environmental Education Popular!
Nature Watch Popular!
Orion Society - Education Initiatives
Sierra Club Environmental Education
Sites Alive!
State Education and Environment Roundtable
Teen Environmental Media Network (TEMN)
Tree Canada Schoolground Program
UN Wire
WWF: The Focal 25
World Resources Institute
YES
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Office of Environmental Education.
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Established in 1971, NAAEE is a network of professionals and students working in the field of environmental education throughout North America and in over 55 countries around the world.
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Interdisciplinary environmental education program for educators working with students in PreK through grade 12. PLT helps students gain awareness and knowledge of the natural and built environment, their place within it, and their responsibility for it.
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The goal of Project WET is to facilitate and promote awareness, appreciation, knowledge, and stewardship of water resources through the development and
dissemination of classroom-ready teaching aids and through the establishment of state and internationally sponsored Project WET programs.
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Project WILD is one of the most widely used conservation and environmental education programs among educators of students in kindergarten through high school. Project WILD is based on the premise that young people and educators have a vital interest in learning about our natural world.
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"MC-ECOM is a Millennium electronic conference on EE, open to delegates from industrialised and developing countries, and will contain a wide range of papers dealing with various aspects of EE and communication." December 9-10, 1999.
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Nature Study, the ANSS Journal, contains in-depth articles on environmental education, related issues and book reviews. ANSS also hosts annual workshops and sponsors two awards to recognize outstanding environmental educators and authors.
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Arizona Roadside Environments (A.R.E.) is a cooperative project between professional researchers at Northern Arizona University and secondary school classes. Research information on Arizona's Environment available.
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AEOE is a professional organization of teachers, residential outdoor school naturalists and other environmental educators. Two conferences a year provide the opportunity to learn and network in a natural environment.
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BEES "works with educators to develop innovative environmental education programs which are multidisciplinary,
inquiry-based, and customized around a local issue." Emphasis on middle to high school levels.
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"An informational resource which is designed to provide access to Great Lakes educational material, as well as to identify and address teacher training needs." Site has a calender of regional events and a resource directory (under construction May, 1999).
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CLEAR 'devotes ... its energies to environmental youth education and
advocacy ... CLEAR also acts as a clearinghouse for the exchange of
environmental ideas and
materials and freely shares its resources and educational materials ..
with any school or
organization involved in ... environmental youth education programs."
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In our school site we have been creating a file where we point out fifty "huge little things" that anyone can do to help preserve our threatened Blue Planet. Schools of all European countries will be asked to participate. A CD-ROM containing all the material will be eventually produced and published on our site. In English, Portuguese and French.
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Penn State's Conservation Leadership Schools are two-week outdoor workshops for high school students interested in natural resource management, conservation, and exploring solutions to environmental problems.
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Developer of Environmental Action, an activity based supplementary curriculum for middle and secondary school students. Find sample lessons on the site.
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Schools collaborate with a local grocery store to decorate shopping bags for Earth Day. Lots of supporting information, and examples from the hundreds of schools participating in 1998. Available again in 1999!
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An international effort to bring issues of environmentally sustainable development into high school classrooms. The program promotes curriculum development and teacher training within regional clusters of participating schools, and school linkages between clusters.
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Earth Force is youth-driven, nonpartisan, national nonprofit organization. Their mission is to help young people (10-14)," improve the environment through developing citizenship skills and addressing real environmental issues in their communities and nationally." Earth Force's current national campaign Get Out Spok'n promotes bicycle transportation.
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"The Environmental News Network mission is to create environmental
awareness on critical issues through the presentation of fair and
balanced daily news and information products."
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Project from NASA, to develop environmental earth science modules that make use of remote sensing and the Internet.
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Action-oriented project to involve students in communicating about environmental issues. In 1998, GR is coordinating efforts on behalf of forests in Nicaragua, Venezuela, and Canada, and for protection of sea turtles in Mexico.
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Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment - Globe involves students from 70 countries in collecting local environmental data. Observations are shared between schools and with researchers via the WWW. From NOAA.
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Sponsored by the Thornton W. Burgess Society, the nature center offers interpreted nature trails, a spectacular wild flower garden, natural history classes, field trips, guided walks, and workshops on the natural sciences. Outreach programs to area schools and teacher workshops are also available.
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"Follow along as a fictional high school ecology club saves the environment. Explore botany, geography, and conservation biology. Presents ways for students to get involved. It's a new approach!"
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This site features an extensive collection of environmentaland educational FREE downloadable software and FREE online environmental books. Links to resources in Massachusetts, EE and topic specific sites are also available.
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Sponsored by YES! (Youth for Environmental Sanity), "'The Green Schools Manual' contains inspiring information about how to make your school's campus environmentally friendly." Information on topics ranging from consumption to over population are also available.
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IEE promotes an integrated, lifestyle-conscious approach to EE, what they call "the world's alternative to agency- and industry-sponsored supplemental environmental education." Based in West Virginia.
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"KSE Worldwide provides action-oriented educational materials to kids, families, groups, classrooms and schools."
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Renew America identifies and promotes environmental programs that work. This page describes 46 exemplary youth environmental projects. These are small scale local models; contact information is available for each.
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The National Environmental Education Advancement Project, located at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point is a national organization which aids state and local environmental education leaders in promoting their environmental education efforts and develops informational items on building state capacities for environmental education.
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NEETF supports a wide array of EE efforts - research, conferences, training, communications, and programs for all ages.
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A project to "establish guidelines for the development of balanced, scientifically accurate, and comprehensive environmental education programs." Coordinated by NAAEE.
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On-line catalog of projects,
resources and activities that are
useful to environmental educators.
Also includes activity page and
trivia quiz, both of which can be
used and are changed mon
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Orion "works with educators ... to develop groundbreaking models for place-based,
interdisciplinary environmental education, plan national conferences on a variety of topics, publish educational monographs, and sponsor teacher-training institutes with the goal of nature literacy always at the core."
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News, articles, and information from Sierra's environmental education committee.
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Sites Alive! takes students in grades 3-9 on virtual field trips to rainforests, coral reefs and wetlands. Students experience and learn from student researchers around the world through travel journals, photos, questions & answers, and audio. Teacher's guides, access to a resource center and activities are available to subscribers.
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"The Roundtable is working to improve learning by using the environment as an integrating context/concept (EIC) in K-12 education." A collaboration among 12 state departments of
education, the group facilitates discussion and analysis of effective environmental education.
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"The TEMN internship offers high school students a real world experience involving media, technology and environmental journalism." Interns research, produce and report online topics they have chosen.
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"The Tree Canada Schoolground program facilitates school communities in
creating an overall landscape site plan. The focus of the program is to
provide shaded and educational landscapes on schoolgrounds. Landscape plans and guidelines for community based projects are available for
viewing on the website."
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UN Wire is a FREE daily news summary covering the UN and global affairs. It has a section on environment and sustainable development. UN Wire features direct, immediate links to full-text, audio, video and additional sources of information on the Internet.
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WWF has identified more than 200 of the world's most outstanding and essential habitats. Of these, 25 ecoregions have been selected as areas of immediate concern. The Focal 25 site outlines the biodiversity, threats and conservation projects in these ecoregions.
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WRI's Environmental Education Project, working on materials development, teacher inservice and promotion of EE in diverse cultural environments.
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A project to "help young people solve environmental problems," active in Los Angeles, San Fransisco and Hawaii. Brief descriptions of projects may provide useful ideas, and there is a bulletin board on the site for questions.
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