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Making Outdoor Education More Accessible
Effective Practices For Night Hike By: Grace Werner The mainstream outdoor industry, as it exists today, is a blanket of whiteness that ignores sacred stories, crucial histories, and traditional knowledge of black and brown people (Brown, 2019). This truth is...
Land Acknowledgement Resource Cards
A New Tool: Land Acknowledgment Resource Cards (LARC) by Grace Crowley-Thomas Throughout Canada, New Zealand, and parts of the United States, educators and leaders are engaging in a practice called “land acknowledgment.” Generally, this is a practice that is meant to...
Ear to the Ground: Jane Tesner Kleiner
Jane Tesner Kleiner is a Registered Landscape Architect (RLA), ecologist and environmental educator with over 25 years of experience in design, project management and program coordination. She loves working with schools and communitiy partners to create spaces and...
Zoos and Aquariums to the Rescue
by Jon Biemer Zoos and aquariums help heal our planet. In addition to wonderful experiential and educational activities, many zoos and aquariums have committed themselves to species rescue and recovery. I am a student of strategies that can create a healthier...
Advice for White Environmentalists and Nature Educators
by Sprinavasa Brown I often hear White educators ask “What should I do?” expressing an earnest desire to move beyond talking about equity and inclusion to wanting action steps toward meaningful change. I will offer you my advice as a fellow educator. It is both a...
EE Activities K-12
EE Activities F17EE Activities F17 K-12 Environmental Education Activities Here are some ideas, separated into grade levels and subject areas, that you can use to instill environmental learning when you are looking for something to fill a gap in your activity plan....
Ear to the Ground: Robert Steelquist
Robert Steelquist: Coastal Explorer Robert Steelquist is a native Pacific Northwest writer, photographer, naturalist, and environmental educator with a 40-year career introducing learners to the nature of the Northwest. He has led hundreds on nature walks, backpacking...
Food Waste and Climate Change
PEI Offers Food Waste and Climate Change Storyline Workshop for Teachers Despite being one of the wealthiest countries in the world, the United States is also one of the most wasteful. America holds the dubious distinction of throwing away more food than every other...
Confronting a World of Wounds:
Aldo Leopold famously wrote,"One of the penalties of an ecological education is that one lives alone in a world of wounds." As environmental educators, we must ask ourselves what we are giving our students that equips them to deal with this harsh reality. by Nick...
Integration Can Help You Teach More Science and Environmental Education
Integration Can Help You Teach More Science and Environmental Education by Jim McDonald Central Michigan University The demands on classroom teachers to address a variety of different subjects during the day means that some things just get left out of the curriculum....
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