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Teacher Resources

The Arts and Healing Network
Dedicated to celebrating the connection between arts and healing. An international resource for anyone interested in the healing potential of art, especially environmentalists, social activists, artists, art professionals, health care practitioners, and those challenged by illness.

Association of Environmental and Outdoor Educators
The Association of Environmental and Outdoor Educators is a California organization by and for outdoor environmental educators. Their website has a terrific resources section for teachers.

California EPA Education Programs
The California Environmental Protection Agency has created this page to give teacher's easy access to all of its K-12 educational programs. They invite you to use this resource as a way to connect the environment to your classroom.

California Integrated Waste Management Board, Office of Education and the Environment
The California Integrated Waste Management Board provides standards-based K-12 curriculum and assistance for schools and districts, and works with local agencies to promote waste management education in local schools and informal settings, such as science centers and museums.

Center for Ecoliteracy
The Center promotes education in the values, skills and knowledge needed to create sustainable communities. Its current programs include Rethinking School Lunch, a planning framework for integrating curriculum with school lunch, campus gardens, kitchen classrooms and public policy. The website provides a 175-page downloadable RSL guide and an ongoing series of essays by leading educators and activists.

Center for Ecosystem Survival
CES works in partnership with schools, universities, zoos, aquariums, botanical gardens, natural history museums and science centers worldwide to protect wildlife and nature.

Convention on Biological Diversity - "Teaching Resources on Biodiversity and Agriculture"
Teach students about biological diversity and sustainable agriculture to ensure that we will be able to feed the world, maintain agricultural jobs and support human life, enhance humans well being into the 21st century and beyond. Includes lesson plans. Companion student's link at: https://www.cbd.int/ibd/2008/youth/

Discovery School
Links to many environmental sites for teachers.

Education Planet
Teacher-reviewed sites, well annotated and indexed.

Education World: Tracking Sea Turtles
Endangered sea turtles are in need of attention. This link will connect you to great classroom activities and resources for learning about sea turtles--and even tracking their movements.

Earthday Network Educator's Network
The Educator's Network offers user-friendly tools for integrating environmental issues into core curriculum subjects, and provides games and other fun activities for kids. EDN's educational resources and the Civic Education Page make learning about environmental issues real for students by attaching the subject matter to real issues that affect their neighborhoods and communities, and by also linking these issues to civic education and engagement.

Environmental Education Fund
Promotes environmental awareness and education, especially in North Carolina.

Global Response
Global Response develops actions that address specific,urgent threats to the environment. Your students can collaborate with communities around the world to help protect the earth!

The Globe Program
GLOBE is a worldwide hands-on, primary and secondary school-based education and science program.

The National Arbor Day Foundation
The National Arbor Day Foundation has excellent resources for teachers of kids pre-K - 12.

National Wildlife Visitor Center
The National Wildlife Visitor Center is the largest science and environmental education center in the Department of the Interior. Designed to accommodate one million visitors per year, this unique facility seeks to impart to young and old alike an increased knowledge of and appreciation for the earth's vital resources.

North American Association for Environmental Education (NAAEE)
A network of professionals, students and volunteers working in the field of environmental education throughout North America and in over 55 countries around the world.

Project Learning Tree
An environmental education program of the American Forest Foundation.

Roots and Shoots
Roots and Shoots is a branch of The Jane Goodall Institute, designed to inspire youth of all ages to make a difference by becoming involved with their communities.

Save the Manatee Club
Membership-based, national nonprofit organization that supports public awareness and education projects; manatee research; rescue and rehabilitation efforts; advocacy and legal action in order to ensure better protection for manatees and their habitat.

Science Friday's Kid's Connection
Science Friday's Kid's Connection is a teacher-friendly educational component of the National Public Radio program "Science Friday." It offers discussion ideas, activities, selected resources, and related science standards on various scientific topics, including Environmental Science. These link programming to the classroom curriculum and are designed to help teachers freshen and energize the required curricula in middle schools.

Sierra Club Environmental Education
Through its environmental education programs, the Sierra Club nurtures caring, leadership skills, and critical thinking, and draws people of wide-ranging ethnic groups, cultures, and abilities into efforts to protect our environment.

Smithsonian Education
Education resources for teachers provided by the Smithsonian Museum.

US Fish & Wildlife Service Wildlife Fact Sheets
Many fact sheets on endangered, invasive, and common species, and wildlife.

US Geological Survey Learning Web - Teacher's Resources
Online resources emphasizing the teaching of biology, biodiversity and ecology. Included are activities, lesson plans, experiments, projects, resources and references for classroom and home use.

Yosemite National Institutes
Yosemite National Institutes (YNI) is a national organization dedicated to teaching science and environmental education in nature's classroom to inspire a personal connection to the natural world and responsible actions to sustain it.