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Thanks to the development of affordable, compact, and user-friendly 3D printers, consumer use is booming, particularly in classrooms. 3D printers have become a valuable tool in K-12 classrooms because they inspire creativity and problem-solving by bringing students’ ideas and designs to life. But, as with so many new technologies, there are also unintended safety consequences to consider. Research conducted by Chemical Insights (an Institute of Underwriters Laboratories), a not-for-profit organization dedicated to scientific research, along with researchers from Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech), found that 3D printers emit ultrafine particles (UFPs) and VOCs during operation. This toolkit will walk you through the research processes, key findings, and health consequences. It also presents best practices for mitigating emissions and maintaining safe and healthy school indoor environments.

Wild School Gardens Guide: Kids growing food with biodiversity, wildlife, & climate in mind

Healthy Community Food Systems

Wild School Gardens: Paying attention to nature and how it is doing in school gardens and the surrounding foodshed. See latest version at: www.HCFS.org under Publications

Exploring Foodshed Health Field Guide

Healthy Community Food Systems

Paying attention to nature and how it is doing in and around local gardens, farms, and ranches.

An online pdf and printable Field Guide aimed at promoting and supporting observing, monitoring, and citizen science around the ecological health of foodsheds and surrounding ecosystems. See latest versions at: www.HCFS.org under Publications

Children who have developed meaningful relationships with the natural world at a young age often carry those experiences into adulthood. They display interest, respect and concern for the protection of nature, wildlife and landscapes This feature story describes the inherent value of nature education now and into the future, creating our new narrative, and collaborating with parents and teachers.

The Center for American Progress has released a new report showing how people of color, families with children, and low-income communities are most likely to be deprived of the benefits that nature provides.

Marine School - New Parody Web Series

NatureLaughs

Marine School' is a new parody web series about the comical school life of sea creatures. Do sharks make good teachers? You're about to find out. Please enjoy and feedback is greatly appreciated.

Professional Development of Environmental Educators: Guidelines for Excellence Online Workshop Module

NAAEE

Teaching EE college courses or professional development workshops online? Here's a resource for you. The Professional Development of Environmental Educators: Guidelines for Excellence Online Module provides lesson plans, videos/PowerPoint presentations, and handouts ready for you to use in your college course or professional development workshop. It provides a step-by-step introduction to NAAEE's Professional Development of Environmental Educators: Guidelines for Excellence. The module begins with a general welcome session, and then moves into an investigation of the six Guidelines Themes. Finally, participants complete a Self-Assessment and create their own professional development plan.

DEADLINE PAST - - - REVIEW DRAFT: Environmental Education Materials: Guidelines for Excellence

NAAEE

DEADLINE PAST - - - REVIEW DRAFT of Environmental Education Materials: Guidelines for Excellence .

We need your help and input!!! The Environmental Education Materials: Guidelines for Excellence were first published in 1996 and have been updated about every five years since then. We are in the process of revising these guidelines once again. The process is iterative. Our writing team developed the current draft. We invite you to review this draft and provide comments that will be used in the revision process.

This set of guidelines describes recommendations for developing and selecting environmental education instructional resources. They aim to help producers of activity guides, lesson plans, and other instructional materials create high quality products and to provide educators with a tool to evaluate the wide array of available environmental education materials.

Green Jobs Youth Personality Quiz

Project Learning Tree

Project Learning Tree has launched an interactive quiz that allows youth to answer a few simple questions online and receive recommendations for a rewarding green career path that suits their personality. It’s fast, easy, and fun to do! — perfect for youth ages 12-25 looking to learn about what it takes to perform jobs in sustainability, forestry, and conservation.

50 Bird Species and the Sounds they Make

AAA State of Play

An interactive tool to help you identify different bird species.

Exponential Climate Roadmap

Exponential Climate Roadmap

A highlighting of actions that can be taken to reduce Greenhouse Gas emissions by 2030.

Canyon Field School @ Home

Our curriculum-based, web content is produced as a collaboration between the nonprofit Grand Canyon Conservancy and the National Park service. Topics will include geology, ecology, human history, and dark skies.

Outdoor School for All! Diverse Programming and Outcomes in Oregon 2019 Evaluation Report

Oregon Outdoor School

Outdoor School for All! Diverse Programming and Outcomes in Oregon is a multi-site, participatory evaluation effort building knowledge about current outdoor school programming and its intended outcomes. The evaluation project and team strive for cultural responsiveness and employ an iterative design-based approach to evaluation. The evaluation report provides findings of a statewide evaluation that occurred in Spring 2019.

COVID-19 Waste: Trash Free Water Awareness Video and Poster

Asvini Thivakaran (age 11, from Round Rock, Texas) 2018 recipient of the President’s Environmental Youth Award from the US EPA created this video and poster bringing awareness to the importance of proper COVID-19 PPE disposal called “COVID-19 Waste: Trash Free Water”.

EarthX, in partnership with Big Thought, has created a free, downloadable K-12 STEAM curriculum including environmental educational lessons focusing on the following four areas: Earth, Energy, Cities and Climate.Lessons are written to National Standards as well as to the TEKS (TX).

Renewable Radio Podcast

Renewable Energy Alaska Project

Renewable Radio is brought to you by Renewable Energy Alaska Project, a nonprofit working in Alaska dedicated to increasing the development of renewable energy and energy efficiency in Alaska through collaboration, education, training, and advocacy.
This podcast will take a close look at a variety of energy related issues that are pertinent to Alaska's energy future.

This report, published by the Lawrence Hall of Science of the University of California, Berkeley, outlines how the environmental education field will be affected by the COVID-19 crisis.

Threshold Podcast

Auricle Productions

Threshold is an environmental podcast that takes a deep dive into a different environmental issue each season, telling the story through a range of voices and perspectives.

In response to setting new directions for in-person forums during our current climate, several National Issues Forums (NIF) partners have successfully convened virtual face-to-face forums using the Zoom platform. We are happy to be able to share their experiences and some materials and tips about convening a deliberative face-to-face online forum using a platform like Zoom.

The Endangered Species Conservation Site provides a variety of resources for teachers and their students, including facts and news about threatened and endangered species and suggestions for helping to protect them.

This book is directed specifically to Middle and High School reading and English teachers. There is also a chapter focused on drama and one for interdisciplinary teaching.

This book provides an excellent overview for early readers about climate change. 2nd-4th graders could read this book, based on their reading abilities.

Grow Outside: A Social and Emotional Learning Toolkit for Residential Environmental Learning Centers (grow-outside.org) is a web-based toolkit that offers strategies for adopting a more intentional approach to incorporating social and emotional learning within residential environmental learning centers program settings, with applications for program improvement across the environmental education field at large.