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Welcome to the CLEARING website!

This website is a portal to the resources and valuable information found in CLEARING Magazine, as well as a forum for sharing ideas, perspectives and opinions on issues relating to the teaching of outdoor, environmental, place-based and sustainability education.

Take your time exploring this site, and you will be rewarded with many valuable ideas that will help you in your teaching situation. Be sure to visit the forum, where you can join discussions on vital issues in the EE and place-based community. And be sure to come back frequently, because we are constantly adding new resources and other information to this site.

On this site, you can:
• Discover activity ideas for all ages and disciplines.
• Read sample articles from past issues.
• Learn about the latest books, films, websites, and curricula available for all grade levels and subject areas.
• Sample resource reviews by noted educators.
• Participate in on-line discussions.
• Learn about other programs, events, and activities around the region and around the world!

...plus, success stories from schools and and communities throughout the region, reports from EE Associations, news and events, and much, much more!

CLEARING is an indispensible resource for anyone who believes in education for a sustainable future.

Learn more about CLEARING...

What is CLEARING?
CLEARING is a unique quarterly magazine that serves as the journal of environmental, place-based, natural resources education in the Pacific Northwest and throughout the western US and Canada.

Published since 1978, CLEARING is known around the world as a reliable source of inspiration, teaching ideas, classrooom activities, resources, and background information for bringing innovative teaching to all grade levels and subject areas.


CLEARING is now available in a unique on-line format. Check out this sample issue to see this exciting new way to interact with the ideas, activities and resources of CLEARING!

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Sample of articles from past issues

• Teaching and Learning Through the Naturalist Intelligence

• Creating Your Own Classroom Nature Guide

• Why Our Students are Environmentally Illiterate

• Calculating Your Ecological Footprint

• Bringing the Ocean Into the Classroom

• Integrated Learning in a Global Classroom

• Developing Successful Partnerships for Urban Environmental Education

• Our Seashores are Being Studied to Death!

• Place-based Education: Learning to Be Where We Are
Northwest Aquatic and Marine Educators
Environmental Education Association of British Columbia
Association for Environmental and Outdoor Education (California)
Nevada Natural Resource Education Council (Nevada)
International environmental education and service learning opportunities for adults and students. Check it out!
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Clearing • Creative Educational Networks (Non-profit ID No. 93-0752542)
• PO Box 82954, Portland Oregon USA 97282
• (503) 238-8571 • e-mail: editor(at)clearingmagazine.org
Last updated: 06/15/08