Get Involved in National Environmental Education Week

Download the toolkit here

April 14-20, 2013

Register today! For more information about National Environmental Education Week, contact us.

Whether you are an educator looking to engage your students and inspire real-world problem-solving in the classroom, a homeschooling parent looking to encourage leadership in your children or a community leader looking to promote local habitat conservation, participating in EE Week is a terrific way to enhance learning and bring about positive change in your school and community.

Here are 10 ways you may choose to participate:

• Incorporate environmental themes into daily lesson plans.
• Help students identify and investigate their watershed.
• Use GPS technology to enable students to map and inventory invasive plant species.
• Use mobile technology to inventory wildlife on your school grounds.
• Organize a virtual or in-person field trip to a local aquarium or zoo.
• Partner with a business or community group to host a clean-up or water quality monitoring event.
• Construct a wildlife habitat, schoolyard garden or outdoor classroom on your campus.
• Help students launch a school recycling program.
• Utilize an app that monitors water and energy use in the school building.
• Help students develop a service-learning project around improving the environment in their community.

Learn more about EE Week 2013 – Greening STEM: Taking Technology Outdoors.

Ready to get started? Register today!

- See more at: http://www.eeweek.org/involved/index.htm

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It’s time to dig out the “Organic Gardening” books

and get ready!

Spring is in the air and just around the corner on the calendar. This year make it your goal to ‘go organic’ less chemicals in the vegetables and flowers this year. {The grass really looks good and doesn’t need the ’round up’} We all can help make a difference in the Storm Water pollution caused from residents watering their lawn into the streets….  How many people actually realize that storm water drains empty into our water ways. That pollution and chemicals doesn’t just go down the drain into the ditch….. it ends up in our waters.

How many invasive plants do you have in your garden? Do you know what’s invasive and what’s natural to your area? Did you know that invasive and exotic plants usually take more water than the plants natural to the area?  How GREEN is your garden?

How about the cleaning supplies? Many people gear up the spring season by cleaning things up and getting ready for summer fun… The BBQ, the lawn furniture, the roof…. How many chemicals can you avoid when you clean this year? Don’t forget to purchase a few reusable shopping bags and do your part to eliminate the plastic bags !

Yes, Spring is almost here ~ how much of our habits can we change just a little to make a big difference together?

For great resources {and I do mean too many to name} head for GOOGLE

‘organic gardening’  ‘green cleaning recipes’ ‘water saving landscaping’ eco friendly habits

you’ll be surprised at how much information you can find to make a few things less expensive and greener in your life.

Welcome Spring, Happy St Patricks Day and Happy Easter!

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