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Resilience Adaptation Feasibility Tool

Old Dominion University

The Resilience Adaptation Feasibility Tool, or RAFT, is an approach to climate resilience that was developed to assist coastal localities that want to reduce their vulnerability to natural disasters.

Fire in the Forest Simulation

Fire in the Forest

Fire in the Forest is an exciting and dynamic role-play simulation set in the Amazon rainforest. The simulation is designed to stimulate a fresh and wider understanding of the global significance of the Amazon and the urgent need to address its problems.

Seattle Children's PlayGarden Inclusion Lessons

Seattle Children's PlayGarden

Children with disabilities are far too often excluded from life-enriching programs like summer camps, nature-based programs and after-school programs. It is time we end the stigma and exclusion and move towards a more inclusive world. Learn how to best welcome, support and include children with disabilities in your programs and organizations by interacting with over 16 different lessons on inclusion- organized across the following four categories: Community Change, Organizational Change, Group Support and Individual Support.

Learn about programs NAAEE and partners developed to advance E-STEM (Environment, Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math)—the integration of environmental education into STEM learning for youth.

Climate Change Education and Climate Justice Resources

NAAEE

This site includes a list of resources to learn more about and help educators teach about climate change and climate justice.

Learning from Indigenous Ways of Knowing is a blog post from Heather Krause at We All Count (a project for equity in data science) which explores "existing ways that Indigenous cultures around the world create knowledge and solve problems with data." The blog is a living document and the team is actively looking for feedback and improvements from the community.

Project Resilience High School Curriculum

UCAR Center for Science Education

Project Resilience is a high curriculum about the environmental challenges facing Gulf coastal communities.

"Decolonizing Data" Podcast via The Ethical Rainmaker

The Ethical Rainmaker

In podcast, host Michelle of The Ethical Rainmaker talks with Anna Rebecca Lopez and Vu Le about how the traditional ways that data has been collected and used can be harmful - causing misrepresentation, oppression and erasure. Anna Rebecca shares her personal journey with deep academic cred as a data nerd and disruptor and the three talk about what questions we must ask to truly center our communities.

Organizational Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion

NAAEE

Support your organization's justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion efforts with these resources.

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.

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.

Earth Science Apps - Climate Mobile Apps

NASA Global Climate Change Education

Climate Mobile Apps

New Mexicans and visitors alike, outdoors more often for play and education, we at SFPS have partnered with the Santa Fe National Forest (SFNF) to distribute over 1000 EKO passes to 4th graders districtwide. The passes are good for our 4th grade families from the day they take them home from school to August 31, 2020. Each pass is worth $80 to the family and can be used multiple times. We expect to collaborate with the SFNF for several more years distributing these passes through our classrooms.

Do you want to do something more for climate change that could create a large positive impact and help your students? Join over 90 campuses in 33 states making a difference in their state. There are crucial energy and climate policies being passed at the state legislative level that will either reduce or exacerbate climate change and ecosystem damage.

Bilingual pilot program funded by National Science Foundation uses text messages to deliver fun, environmental science and math activities for kids and parents based on Emmy Award-winning PBS KIDS series. Research shows the initiative’s positive impact for low-income families, including Spanish speakers (Read the full News Release)

The Nature of Teaching includes formal standards-based curricula and informal activity-based curricula all centered around getting youth outside. The three program areas of the formal curricula include: Wildlife, Health and Wellness, and Food Waste. Each program area provides standards-based lesson plans free as a downloadable PDF. Lesson plans are classroom ready for grades K-12. The Nature of Teaching also offers professional development workshops for teachers focused on science, the environment, and getting students connected with nature. Find the free downloadable lesson plans and assessments at www.purdue.edu/nature

The Plog for the Ocean Toolkit contains everything you need to host your own plog event as an energetic way to raise awareness and take action against plastic pollution.

From promotion, to day-of engagement with the Litterati app, to influencing policy post-cleanup, this guide has you covered every step of the way. Join with the World Oceans Day Youth Advisory Council and thousands of others to host impactful and engaging cleanups around the globe!

Outdoor School for All! Diverse Programming and Outcomes in Oregon is a participatory evaluation effort building understanding and knowledge about current outdoor school programming and its intended outcomes. This is an ongoing collaborative project of the Outdoor School Program and the Oregon Environmental Literacy Program, with support from the Gray Family Foundation and the Friends of Outdoor School.

Beginning in 2016, key stakeholders, including outdoor school providers, teachers, administrators, students, and others across the state came together to build understanding and knowledge about current outdoor school programming and intended outcomes. We built a common measurement system based on legislative requirements, a wide variety of data sources, existing literature/knowledge base and substantial input from stakeholders. Data gathered in this project are expected to support several elements of the statewide program. These include: legislative reporting requirements (OR-SB 439); community engagement and outreach; diversity, equity and inclusion; program and curriculum development;
professional development and learning; and research, evaluation and assessment.

The attached report details findings from a 2018 pilot study of outdoor schools across the state of Oregon including survey results from students, educators, and providers.

The Youth Teamwork Skills Survey is an evaluation tool to measure team communication skills in a wide range of STEM (including EE) out-of-school time programs. The survey is meant to be used with youth in grades 6 - 12.

NOAA B-WET is a grant program that supports Meaningful Watershed Educational Experiences (MWEEs) for teachers and students across the USA. NOAA B-WET evaluation’s system was designed to determine to what extent its professional development and student programs are having collective impact by meeting desired outcomes, and to identify MWEE best practices.

MEERA (http://meera.snre.umich.edu/) provides free guidance and resources for evaluating environmental education programs.

Whether you’re a program developer, evaluator, researcher, or funder, eeRESEARCH can help you find resources to support your work and improve practice! Browse more than 1,000 research summaries and syntheses, or use a variety of tools to narrow your search to the topics, authors, or focus areas that interest you.

The toolkit was adapted from the North American Association for Environmental Education’s Guidelines for Excellence - Nonformal Environmental Education Programs and serves as an aid to AmeriCorps members who develop and administer environmental education programs in North Carolina.