Blog
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NAAEE is seeking donations from Affiliates for the 2017 conference auction. Rather than donate a basket of stuff for this year's NAAEE conference auction, why not donate a basket full of help?
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If we want students to get outside and connect with their place, we need teachers who are ready and willing to take learning outside. What types of experiences do teacher candidates get while in their university programs? How can these experiences be more meaningful? Methods professors from across…
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Guest blogger Erin Twamley kicks off back to school season with tips for helping middle and high school teachers integrate energy and climate change in the classroom using NAAEE and Kettering Foundation's Environmental Issues Forums (EIF).
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As part of NAAEE's monthly webinar series, we heard from three representatives of the Center for Whole Communities: Mohamad Chakaki, Joshua Carrera, and Ginny McGinn.
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NAAEE has recently released Let’s Talk About Water: A Guide to Developing Discussion Materials to Get Your Community Deliberating, in partnership with the Kettering Foundation. The guide was created to help you develop a deliberative issue framework and simple discussion materials for groups of…
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Researchers at Duke's Nicholas School of the Environment are helping NAAEE compile and create research summaries and syntheses for an online database to be housed on eePRO, an exciting project conducted jointly with the Children and Nature Network with funding from the Pisces Foundation. We want to…
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Join us for the Leaf Pack Network full-day workshop at the NAAEE Conference this fall in Puerto Rico!
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What are some ways that you can be green at home and work to help make wise choices for sustainability? Some of the easy ways include: recycling, re-using, walking and ride sharing, planting native, reducing water use, and much more!
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Read the August Newsletter and learn about an E-STEM public school that offers half-day nature preschool programs, meet other new members, and check out the latest professional development opportunities and job openings.
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The website will be down for a short time on Friday, August 4 at 8:30 am ET. We are moving our site to a new host and expect it to back online by 10:30 am ET.
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This is Part 1 of a series of blogs: What are the factors that lead to behavior change in adults or make them choose sustainable actions?
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Deadline: August 3, 2018
Please note: Nominations may only be submitted by NAAEE members
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Surfside Elementary was among 9 Project Learning Tree GreenSchools to be honored as 2017 US Department of Education Green Ribbon Schools for their outstanding achievements to improve the health and environment of their school and community.
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Lets take a look at some studies and articles that discuss the benefits of diversity and inclusion. Don't forget to link studies in the comments below, share your resources and knowledge.
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Sharing another blog post from the Riveredge Nature Center blog that talks about the different ways we consume versus curate technology in our day to day lives and gives ideas for how to integrate technology into nature-based learning experiences.
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The North American Association for Environmental Education (NAAEE) and Kettering Foundation have recently released Energy Choices: What Should We Do About America’s Energy Future? This guide for deliberative forums takes on the complex network of economic, environmental, and political issues around…
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Lisa Eadens of the Colorado Alliance for EE shares insights from the organization's Diversity and Inclusiveness Initiative and resources from their Community Weaving Workshop that helped their stakeholders re-think environmental outcomes in terms of community needs.
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Get updates on the Nature-Based Preschool National Conference in Seattle on August 2-5. Read a story about nature experiences playing a central role in children's moral development. Hear from the director of a holistic early childhood program in New York. Learn how to help us collect research…
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As partt of NAAEE's monthly webinar series, we heard from Dr. Eric Dinerstein, Director of WildTech and the Biodiversity and Wildlife Solutions Program at RESOLVE.
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Each of the Guidelines for Excellence publications has been developed with the expressed purpose of helping us improve our own practice as environmental educators. In this blog posting, Yash Bhagwanji describes how he uses Early Childhood Environmental Education Programs: Guidelines for Excellence…
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NAAEE is pleased to announce the second annual EE 30 Under 30 call for nominations is now open!
The application process closes on July 28th, 2017 at 11:59pm EDT. If you have any questions, please contact Amanda Luh at amanda@naaee.org.
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"Visualizing Change” is a website [ http://vischange.org/ ] that provides a toolkit full of examples and dynamic visuals and builds on advances in cognitive and social science research, to enable informal educators to use visual narratives on climate change to more effectively reach diverse…
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Here's your opportunity to learn more about our newest publication - Community Engagement: Guidelines for Excellence. View the recorded webinar (recorded on May 9, 2017) that provides an overview of the guidelines, how they were developed, and how you can use them in your own work.
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For the July edition of NAAEE's monthly webinar series (Bringing New Ideas and Innovation to the field of EE), we heard from Mary Ford (National Geographic) and Danny Edelson (BSCS) who shared their expertise in using citizen science to promote learning and increase our impact.
