Learn about the National Wildlife Federation's Campus Ecology program that helps colleges and universities become more sustainable. Urban Ecology Research Laboratory 2. News. 10th Bullitt Environmental Prize Recognizes Wildlife Conservation Leader 2. Winner Overcame Many Obstacles from Ugandan Farm to University of Washington School of Environmental and Forest Sciences The Bullitt Foundation announced today the winner of the 1. Annual Bullitt Environmental Prize, which recognizes people with extraordinary potential to become powerful and effective leaders in the environmental movement. Public Transportation Grants; Consolidated Grants Program; New Revenue Grant Programs; Consolidated Grants Program Guidebook. WA/Priest River, ID area and Spokane along US 2 Monday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. Infrastructure Funding Program Webinar To save costs, please use your speakers instead of calling in Technical difficulties: call 360-292-3599 Webinar Facilitator: Rodney Orr Moderator: Lynn Kohn 2/4/15. Washington State Conservation Commission Irrigation Efficiencies Grants Program. The 2. 01. 6 Bullitt Prize winner is Carol Bogezi..
Profiles of Environmental Education Grants Awarded to Organizations in Washington . These methods involve an exciting mix of non- invasive wildlife monitoring methods and the University of Washington Center. Inquiry- based classroom lessons are combined with hands- on, cooperative- based activities that address cultural content and national learning standards. Leadership workshops are focused on connecting students to conservation and health concepts through outdoor learning and cultural- based actions. Top of Page. 20. 14 Grants. Pacific Education Institute . Margaret Tudor, 7. Columbia Street NW, Suite 2. Olympia, WA 9. 85. The project trains Watershed Facilitators (informal educators) to support teachers of grades 3- 1. An overall Coordinator recruits and selects Watershed Facilitators focused on/certified in PEI Field STEM focused on Columbia River. Pacific Education Institute provides a 5- day training in Feb 2. Watershed Facilitators to then be able to provide a workshop for teachers in their area. A total of 1. 0 Watershed Facilitators each provide a 6- hour Field STEM workshop to at least 1. Afterwards, teachers give at least 1 field experience to students during the 2. Top of Page. 20. 13 Grants. Educational Service District #1. Regal, Spokane, WA 9. Climate Connections Northwest. This project provides environmental education (EE) professional development workshops to teachers across six school districts in rural eastern Washington and involves 4th through 8th grade students in hands- on community environmental projects. This regional workshop is focused on fundamental characteristics, implementation, integration and goals of EE. The four regional environmental education associations are to work together to convene the Regional Leadership Team as a Community of Practice; co- create a regional model for implementation of literacy plans; implement, evaluate and disseminate the model for classroom- to- community- and- back environmental and sustainability education at the state and local levels; implement, communicate, learn from, and adaptively manage across the system; and package and disseminate the model throughout, and beyond, the region. Box 4. 72. 00 ,6. Washington St. SE, Olympia, WA 9. Washington State Environmental and Sustainable Literacy Plan. This project implements three key strategies of the Washington State Environmental and Sustainability Literacy Plan and provides a continuum of pre- K- 1. The project's focus is on Educational Advancement, environmental education teaching skills, and career development with focusing on the environmental priority of Building Strong State and Tribal Partnerships. Implementing these strategies results in an increase in students' awareness and knowledge about environmental issues and provides them with the skills necessary to make informed decisions and take responsible actions. Top of Page. 20. 10 Grants. Earth. Corps. The Earth Education Corps plan to work primarily with grades 5 through. Seattle and nearby school districts. The goals of the project are to: (1) equip pre- career young adults with the knowledge and skills necessary to complete substantive habitat restoration projects; (2) ensure that those young adults have mastered the knowledge to a degree that they can articulate it to volunteers; (3) coach the young adults in how to effectively manage youth volunteers, serving as project leaders and role models; and (4) flesh out and document Earth. Corps' regionally acclaimed corps member education curriculum using an inquiry- based science approach so that it can be replicated or adopted by other conservation corps. Environmental Education Association of Washington. Box 6. 27. 7, Olympia, WA 9. Education for Sustainable Communities. The Education for Sustainable Communities project addresses the environmental education (EE) capacity building challenges within the state of Washington. The summit provides training to state, regional and sector leaders on collaboration, measuring progress, and technical support of the E3 Washington (Education, Environment, Economy) environmental education programming. These training efforts seek to accelerate the delivery of an integrated and comprehensive education program through implementation of state, regional and sector E3 plans. E3 leaders and the general public are also reached through a dynamic, interactive website and a series of online and on- site organizational meetings. The E3 website records, quantifies and showcases actions towards the achievement of a comprehensive EE program. The Environmental Education Association of Washington works with E3 leaders to provide E3 products for application in other states as well. The overall goal of the project is to construct a replicable model for exponentially increasing the capacity to deliver, measure, track, and sustain a statewide comprehensive Environmental and Sustainability Education program. Key partners include the Department of Natural Resources and Public parks, the Northwest Indian Fisheries Commission, the Washington Superintendent of Public Instruction. Nature Vision. The students and non- formal educators are broken up into 1. Blue Teams) to focus on community watershed stewardship projects. Students develop an understanding for their local ecosystem through the personalized education plan, created by one of the Nature Vision naturalists, which includes classroom activities and hands- on field activities. Since these projects are within their local community, students develop a sense of ownership for their projects. The Blue Team program educates local youth about water resources and related ecosystems, fosters sustainable stewardship values and practices in the community through hands- on youth projects, and empowers youth to take positive steps to improve their local environment. West Valley School District #2. Peter Finch, 8. 90. Zier Road, Yakima, WA 9. College in High School Environmental Science Course. The project creates a College in High School credit course in Environmental Science at the West Valley High School in cooperation with Central Washington University. The high school has the benefit of a university professor assisting with course development. During this course, students focus on restoring and maintaining fish habitat within the Yakima River watershed. Students conduct research in the field, such as water quality monitoring. At the end of the course, students present what they have learned to younger students and community members. Students pay tuition and receive the college credit immediately. The course credits are transferrable to any accredited institution. The goal of this project is to provide high school students with the opportunity, knowledge, and skills to get into college, pursue environmental science education, and become environmental stewards in their schools and community. Top of Page. 20. 09 Grants. Educational Service District 1. The project also promotes long- term environmental awareness and stewardship by enhancing the knowledge and skills of kindergarten through grade 1. Two staff development programs on water quality are created and offered to teachers in all of the area school districts. A project Web site is created for the students to share information. Community members are recruited to assist in planting trees for stream bank restoration and to be guest speakers in the classrooms to discuss local water quality issues, including how the streams are affected by environmental pollution that is detrimental to human health. The middle school students are to present their environmental and health science- related projects at the Spokane Environmental Youth Conference, to be held in May 2. Environmental Education Association of WA. Box 6. 27. 7, Olympia, WA 9. Schools of the Future: Sustainability Design Project. The Sustainability Design Project recruits and trains teachers from various Washington state school districts to actively and effectively make use of the people, tools, and resources available for sustainability education. It supports a cadre of teacher leaders in school districts by engaging in professional development on sustainability education, forming sustainability teams, implementing and teaching sustainable design project units in classrooms, and creating a learning community network. These teacher leaders attend the 2. Sustainability Education Summer Institute at Islandwood. Each teacher develops and teaches a sustainable design project unit to students and leads and supports other teachers in his or her school district to implement the same project with their students. Teachers are also scheduled to attend the Team Leader's Summit in 2. Top of Page. 20. 08 Grants. Community Agricultural Development Center. Elm, Colville, WA 9. Food and Environmental Stewardship: Food Choices that Support Sustainable Agriculture. The Community Agricultural Development Center (CADC) is partnering with Quillisascut Farms and Washington State University (WSU) Extension in Stevens County to train high school teachers in health and food science programs. They are learning how to evaluate the impacts of food choices on the environment and to prioritize ways to reduce the size of their own and students. Teachers from across the State of Washington attend a 5- day training at the Quillisascut Farms training center. The focus is on food choices that result in a healthier diet for students and support a more sustainable food production and distribution system. Issues that are addressed include pesticide use, fertilizers, energy usage, soils, surface and ground water, and animal, vegetable, and fruit production. The hands- on multidisciplinary training on Farm to Table issues changes the ways the group thinks about the food system. The teachers are taught about organic food production, what a local food community is, how environmental stewardship affects purchasing and kitchen practices, and biodiversity and the food environment. Department of Ecology. Box 4. 76. 00, Olympia, WA 9.
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